Senior Java Engineer, UnderwriteMe
1+ day a week in office
Building software products for the life insurance market
Posted today
Building software products for the life insurance market
101-200 employees
Posted today
1+ day a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
Using tech to ensure everyone who wants life insurance can access it.
Role
Who you are
- You’re a well-rounded software engineer who sees writing code as just one part of building great software. You care about solving real problems, not just shipping features, and you think critically about the trade-offs behind technical decisions
- You enjoy working collaboratively across disciplines—engaging with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build systems that are technically sound and deliver real value
- You’re comfortable balancing long-term technical quality with short-term delivery needs, and you know when to push for robustness and when to favour speed
- Deep understanding of techniques like Trunk Based Development, Test Driven Development, Continuous Delivery, Domain Driven Design. You have worked in a team that has successfully applied these techniques to real world problems
- Strong proficiency in modern Java (21) and Spring Boot
- Previous experience building cloud native solutions (preferably AWS)
- Strong grounding in core computer science principles
- Extra bonus if you’ve worked in and have experience of legacy migration techniques, event driven architectures, CQRS, event sourcing or modular monoliths
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us to help us build, enhance and scale our Protection Platform product
- The Protection Platform lives within a modern tech ecosystem:
- Hosted entirely in the cloud (AWS) utilising products such as EKS, RDS, DynamoDB, EventBridge and S3
- All our applications are JVM based with the majority running on Java 21. We’re in the process of moving our backend services to Spring Boot
- We’ve invested heavily in our DataDog integration to bring world class observability and monitoring to our systems
- We’ve recently moved to Gitlab and are currently building out our next generation of automated deployment pipelines
- We’ve incorporated some of the best open-source software into our systems and processes including Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Flux, Docker and Renovate
- Integrated with some of the leading products in the industry including Auth0, Segment, Customer IO, Snowflake, Vercel and more
- You’ll join a team actively practicing:
- Test-Driven development
- Collaborative approaches to engineering including pair and ensemble programming
- A shift left mindset on quality and security
- Build/Run philosophy: we own our code in production—we write it, test it, deploy it, and monitor it
Salary benchmarks
Our take
UnderwriteMe was founded in 2012 to shake up the UK insurance sector. At the time, life insurance underwriting was an inefficient process typified by a fractured market, slow processes, and non-standardised evidence. UnderwriteMe released its Underwriting Engine which untangled and greatly accelerated the process, allowing it to grow to become the leading provider of insurance tech products across Europe, Asia, and North America.
As a tech-first company, UnderwriteMe has continued to develop its product, innovating to remain at the forefront of the insurance tech sector. It has moved into AI, with its Text Mining Lab that uses natural language processing to read unstructured medical reports and automatically convert them into usable data. It has also formed major strategic partnerships to improve the product, one example being with United Healthcare Group, allowing medical screening requests to be sent electronically. This further shortens the underwriting decision-making process for users of the platform.
Its focus on innovation and strategic partnerships has yielded success, generating significant buzz in the insurance sector and more than 50% year-on-year growth. Moving ahead it will continue to develop its product, doubling down on AI-augmented decision-making tools to further increase the efficiency of the underwriting process.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
60 people
Indigo King, Principal Machine Learning Engineer
Our mission
Shaping the future of life insurance underwriting through AIInsights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Career progression
"Still being fairly small (150 people) and scaling means people can make an impact and be involved in projects, uncover new opportunities and..."
Company benefits
- Life Assurance - The Company provides a lump sum benefit payment, 9x salary
- Group Income Protection - The aim is to provide an income to employees if they are unable to work long-term, as a result of an illness or injury. 75% of basic salary
- Private Medical Insurance - Provided for all employees via Bupa Healthcare
- Stakeholder Pension Scheme - Up to 15%. The Company offers a group stakeholder pension to aid employees in planning for their future
- Money towards remote setup - £350 for you to be set up and comfortable working remotely
- Employee Assistance Programme - Providing employees with third-party advice on a variety of topics including mental health
- Subsidised Gym Membership - The company subsidises memberships to any gym of employees' choice
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity scheme
- Bonus Scheme - based on individual and company performance
- 30 days a year working remotely - The opportunity to work abroad or from your home country (for those who may have moved country). This can be broken up through the year
- 24/7 GP Consultation - Through the Employee Assistance Programme, WeCare, employees and their families have access to a UK-based GP anytime it's needed
- Cycle 2 Work Scheme - Enables employees to purchase cycling equipment tax-free by paying for it in installments through salary sacrifice deductions
- 25 days holiday plus company closure for wellbeing days (4x extra days off in 2023)
Company values
- Impact Oriented: Driven by meaningful results, prioritising actions that deliver significant outcomes and contribute to team success. Motivated by value creation and business impact, not titles or status.
- Entrepreneurial: Demonstrate initiative and a proactive approach to identifying and seizing the right opportunities. Show resilience in the face of challenges and maintains a bias for action.
- Curiosity: Exhibit a strong desire to learn and understand new concepts. Approach problems with creativity and persistence, consistently seeking effective solutions.
- Technically Great: Possess a deep understanding of relevant technical skills and knowledge applicable to job role . Apply technical expertise effectively to solve complex issues.
- Strategic Thinkers: Demonstrate an understanding of the broader impact of their role and decisions. Effectively balances immediate actions with strategic planning to ensure alignment with medium-term and long-term organisational objectives.
- Adaptability: Open to feedback and willing to learn from others. Show a growth mindset and the ability to adapt and improve.
Company HQ
St Katharine's & Wapping, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Andrew Doran
(CEO)Prevously Global Chief Underwriter at Pacif Life Re and was an Underwriting Strategy Manager for Aviva.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at UnderwriteMe
Nana (Gyasi)
- Fostering cultural awareness in our organisation
- Enhancing the diversity within our Underwrite Me team
- Reviving our learning curriculum to enhance DE&I knowledge
- Building on our existing affinity groups and DE&I initiatives
- Optimising our hiring practices and removing bias
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