iOS Engineer, Cuvva
£70-85k
+Equity
1-4 days a week in office (Farringdon, GB)
Car insurance
Job no longer available
Car insurance
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
£70-85k
+Equity
1-4 days a week in office (Farringdon, GB)
101-200 employees
Company mission
We are making cars multiplayer 🚙 We’re creating truly flexible products that meet people’s real needs. Cuvva is building the future of insurance every day.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience with Xcode and iOS Development, SwiftUI , UIKIt, and other Apple frameworks
- Excellent understanding of the Swift Language and it’s features, including Swift Concurrency
- Experience working with a Mobile CI such as Bitrise, CircleCI, Github Actions, or Jenkins
- Experience with automated testing & working knowledge of git
- The ability to be adaptable and embrace change initiatives whilst enthusiastically collaborating with peers and through your demeanour, you’re mindful of your interactions and tone of voice
- A strong eye for detail, not shy away from building new and existing features within the codebase; and have a genuine interest in knowledge sharing and collaboration
- A demonstrable commitment to continuous learning by keeping up to date with WWDC sessions, Swift releases, attending relevant workshops, conferences (last year the iOS team attended iOSDevUK), or online courses, and applying new knowledge to improve your skills and stay updated with industry trends
- A genuine passion for building meaningful products, working with driven colleagues whilst wanting to be part of making a difference in the world of InsurTech
Desirable
- Can navigate and understand Services written in Golang and/or Javascript
- Have experience working directly in Android Kotlin codebases
- Have a customer-first approach, without unnecessarily sacrificing technical excellence
What the job involves
- As an iOS Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to identify, own and solve problems in the product (both functional and technical) and be able to support, partner, influence and pair on tasks across the wider Product Engineering team to make informed decisions and have better learning opportunities
- With your customer centric and product focussed mindset, you’ll lean on your understanding of true Product Engineering principles and ways of working
- You’ll collaborate with designers to contribute to, and expand our design systems
- Own and participate in writing technical specification documents, sessions and implementation of new and existing features in collaboration with Engineering/Product Managers and fellow Engineers
- You will have experience in building complex apps in a modular fashion to user needs, and to technical specification. To contribute to helping us build the user-facing side of Cuvva’s platform
- Here at Cuvva, we care deeply about building rock-solid infrastructure for the long term, and as our new iOS Engineer (with a track record of delivering solutions) you’ll be collaborating with cross discipline teams in working towards common goals/projects, some of these will be - creating frameworks/modular codebases, managing the end to end Application delivery cycle - from concept all the way to the app store, and utilising your knowledge of Apple UI design principles, interface guidelines, patterns, and best practices
- Write clean, concise, maintainable, scaleable and well-tested code, being able to self review, break down, and make improvements to your own work whilst taking part in the entire product development process from problem-discovery to solution design, to implementation and rollout
- Help to shape the iOS engineering discipline’s medium to long-term strategy
- Architect, plan, and structure new features with your team, whilst maintaining the functionality of services, ensure infrastructure changes and improvements, improve our continuous deployment processes and overall, make our products more accessible, secure and performant
- Troubleshoot and debug issues across the stack, from infrastructure to application code, and implement effective solutions in a timely manner, whilst support in performing write ups of any incidents that occur
- Write comprehensive tests and participate in code reviews to ensure the reliability, stability, and security of our systems
- Prepare, test, submit, and monitor releases to App Store Connect as part of a weekly release schedule
- Get involved in Scrum based ceremonies e.g daily standups and retrospectives with your dedicated product teams, whilst collaborating with designers, product managers, and other cross discipline engineers
- Have weekly 1:1s with your line manager, and maintain visibility of your tasks at hand, we use Shortcut as our ticketing system
- Have a high degree of emotional intelligence, with an understanding that being able to write “good code” is only one part of your role, we want you to support us in building a great company culture, and discipline specific community
- We have the following cross-functional product teams, as our new iOS Engineer, we’ll be looking for you to join our On-Demand Team
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Before companies like Cuvva, the most recent consumer-facing innovation in insurance was through aggregators such as Moneysupermarket. However, the experience of using these is not great. The industry is known for low levels of customer support, confusing policies and needing to create a new account every time you want a quote.
Brokers and comparison websites add another step to the process, and charge companies they work with ~£70 on each policy sold, which is passed on to the customer in the form of higher policy costs.
Cuvva's focus on customer service is unusual in insurance, but it's providing them a winning edge. They are trying to make insurance more about the experience than simply the price of the policy. It seems to be working so far, as they’ve got a lot of great customer reviews. The challenge will be scaling this support (it’s notoriously hard to scale great customer service when you’re growing fast).
For an industry where brand loyalty is currently near zero (because people go for the cheapest policies) there could be a big opportunity for a company that provides an end-to-end amazing experience and cuts out the middlemen.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"LOADS of opportunities to learn. I started at Cuvva 4 years ago in customer operations. Managed to grow within the team and then break off into a..."
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2019
$19.7m
SERIES A
Jan 2017
$1.9m
SEED
Total funding: $23m
Company benefits
- Health, wfh and wellbeing budget
- Professional development budget, as well as time off for workshops, studying and courses
- One-to-one sessions with our Sanctus coaches, giving you a safe space to talk about your mental health
- Volunteer day - A chance for us to get out of the office and do some good!
- Enhanced parental leave and pay - it doesn’t matter if the Cuvva employee is the primary or secondary caregiver or adoptive parent
- Doctor Care anywhere, for online appointments, referrals & prescriptions
- 25 days of holiday a year (+ public holidays ) - this increases with each year you're at Cuvva!
- Flexible remote working (with a requirement of 3 days in the office per quarter). London area. WeWork offices in Hoxton.
- £100 a month towards your Cuvva car insurance!
- Cycle to work scheme and salary sacrifice scheme for electric car lease!
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Freddy Macnamara
(CEO)Previously founded a renewable energy consultancy in Scotland.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Cuvva
- At Cuvva, we’re dedicated to building an environment where individuals from all walks of life feel a sense of belonging and have the support they need to thrive. To us, it’s crucial that our differences are embraced and celebrated - and that you’re able to bring your whole self to work everyday. To ensure that DBI (Diversity, Belonging, and Inclusion) stays at the forefront of not only our minds but of our actions, we hold a bi-weekly session to discuss our DBI initiatives and strategy. It’s an open invite and individuals from across all different departments get involved. In the past year, here’s a few steps we’ve taken towards creating a more inclusive and equitable environment:
- Improving the diversity of our talent pool by partnering with businesses that have the same values and ethics as us, tracking diversity in our recruitment process and making changes to our hiring strategy to help us reach a wider variety of communities
- Hosting speakers and events on a quarterly basis to educate our team and spark conversation on so many important causes; including Pride at Cuvva and Black Lives Matter
- Conducting a BBI survey so we better understand where we are now, and set out key goals for 2022 on how we can improve.
- To find out more about our DBI journey, check out this blog post by our Head of People, Riva Cahn-Thompson: https://www.cuvva.com/cuvva/where-we-are
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