Senior Full Stack Engineer, InsurX
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2-3 days a week in office
Digital exchange for the London insurance market
Posted today
Digital exchange for the London insurance market
1-20 employees
Posted today
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
1-20 employees
Company mission
To make insurance more accessible, affordable, and efficient for all people, regardless of location or background
Role
Who you are
- If you love solving real customer problems, moving fast while keeping quality high, and scaling products that prove their value, we’d love to talk
- Full Stack Experience – Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript on the frontend and Python/Go on the backend, building and shipping real-world applications end-to-end
- Cloud & Infrastructure experience – Familiarity with Azure (or AWS/GCP) and experience deploying and managing applications in a cloud-native environment, with experience in CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform a plus), and observability tools
- Delivering at Speed – A track record of shipping products fast, making pragmatic trade-offs, and iterating quickly based on user feedback
- Startup Mindset – You thrive in fast-moving environments, are comfortable with ambiguity, and can adapt quickly as priorities evolve
- Development Best Practices – Passion for clean, maintainable, and testable code, with experience in test automation, observability, and performance monitoring
- Working with Data – Comfortable working with databases like PostgreSQL and handling data-driven application development
- Collaboration & Problem-Solving – Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Commercial teams to bring ideas to life
- Pragmatic & Impact-Driven – You balance speed with technical debt and make trade-offs that optimise for impact. You know when to hack together an MVP and when to engineer for the long term
What the job involves
- As we build and launch new customer-facing applications, we’re looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer who thrives in a fast-moving startup environment
- In this role, you'll ship features quickly, validate ideas in production, and scale solutions that gain traction—balancing pragmatism with long-term maintainability
- This is a hands-on engineering role where you’ll be deep in the codebase, working across the cloud-native application stack, making end-to-end decisions on how best to deliver functionality at speed
- You’ll collaborate closely with product, data and design to move from concept to production in days—not months
- Build & Ship Quickly – Develop and deploy customer-facing applications across the whole stack, using TypeScript on the frontend and Python/Go on the backend, iterating rapidly to validate ideas in production. You'll work across the stack, making smart technical choices to deliver features at speed while ensuring maintainability
- Prototype & Scale – Work closely with Product, Commercial and Data teams to test new features in the market, embracing a fail-fast approach to quickly identify what resonates with customers. Once validated, you'll know how to ensure these solutions can scale
- Own Your Work End-to-End – Take full ownership of your projects, from initial technical design to deployment and monitoring on Azure. You'll balance pragmatism and quality, choosing the right level of abstraction to move fast without unnecessary complexity
- Champion Best Practices – Ensure code is clean, maintainable, and well-tested, with a strong focus on CI/CD, observability, and automation to keep deployments seamless and reliable
- Cloud-Native Mindset – Work with Azure and modern cloud tools and services to deploy and manage applications efficiently, optimising for performance and cost-effectiveness
- Thrive in a Fast-Paced Environment – Adapt quickly, deliver solutions pragmatically, and find ways to reduce time-to-value without sacrificing engineering excellence
Salary benchmarks
Our take
InsurX builds insurance technology that enables brokers and carriers to trade risk instantly. Their first product, the InsurX Exchange, launched in early 2023, and enables the London insurance marketplace to trade smart-follow capacity faster, better, and at a lower cost via the use of InsurX’s algorithmic risk matching technology.
The platform also enables algorithmic portfolio underwriting for Lloyd’s insurers and provides rich data insights to market participants.
The company was incubated as part of Lloyd's of London's internal accelerator, Lloyd's Lab, and recently won global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright’s prestigious annual ‘Insurathon’, gaining £25k of investment plus the same in legal services
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2023
$1m
SEED
Apr 2022
$0.3m
SEED
Total funding: $1.3m
Company benefits
- 25 days holiday
- Share Option Scheme
- Bonus
- Healthcare
- Yearly L&D budget
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Gilbert Harrap
(CEO)Previously Head of Strategy at MS Amlin, with an MBA from INSEAD
Will Iles
(Head of Data and Technology)Formerly Head Of Analytics and Data Science at MS Amlin
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at InsurX
- At InsurX, we’re building a new type of insurance company: one built on a truly diverse set of top talent from all backgrounds and experiences which we firmly believe is the route to success. To date, we’ve recruited people with a wide range of skill sets from various industries and backgrounds, all united by a passion to build something new, different and special, to make the London insurance market work faster, better and cheaper
- We welcome applications from anyone interested in working with us, no matter your age, race, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, physical ability, or socio-economic background
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