Staff Engineer, hyperexponential
+ Stock options
2 days a week in office
Insurance pricing software
Open for applications
Insurance pricing software
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock options
2 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To transform the insurance industry through the power of decision intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive hands-on experience with cloud-based architectures and distributed systems, building scalable, reliable, and secure solutions
- Proven ability to design and evaluate complex technical architectures, balancing long-term sustainability with short-term business needs
- Deep expertise in multiple programming languages, technologies, and frameworks
- Strong ability to quickly learn and become proficient with new technologies
- Demonstrated ability to self manage and independently identify high-value opportunities and execute them effectively
- Experience leading technical initiatives, influencing cross-functional teams, and driving alignment on tools, technologies, and engineering practices
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, capable of conveying complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Exceptional skills in managing stakeholder relationships, expectations, and alignment with technical goals
- Experience defining and contributing to long-term technical strategies and visions
- Extensive experience in writing clear, comprehensive technical documentation for diverse audiences
What the job involves
- As a Staff Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical landscape of our engineering organization
- You will drive the design and implementation of scalable, high-impact solutions while collaborating closely with Principal Engineers, Engineering Managers, Product Managers, and cross-functional teams
- Your expertise will help influence technical strategy, enhance engineering practices, and ensure the delivery of robust and innovative solutions
- With our expanding customer base and entry into new markets and geographies, our existing architecture faces scalability challenges
- As a Staff Engineer, you will lead the design and implementation of architectural solutions that enhance scalability, resilience, and performance
- Additionally, as our platform evolves, you will contribute to optimizing and refining our existing systems to better support our customers and sustain future growth
- Lead engineering initiatives across hx, particularly in early-stage projects (Tiger teams), providing technical direction and fostering alignment on tools, technologies, and best practices
- Contribute to the development and co-authorship of the Engineering/Technical Vision, identifying opportunities to enhance technical excellence and sustainability
- Collaborate with Engineering Managers and Product Managers to guide, motivate, and support teams in the development and delivery of high-quality, secure, and performant software
- Consult on technical designs, offering guidance and expertise to ensure robust architectural decisions, while proactively identifying and addressing future technical challenges
- Champion engineering best practices across teams, driving the adoption of local successes to improve consistency, quality, and efficiency across the organization
- Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, effectively communicating technical concepts, managing expectations, and ensuring alignment with business goals and priorities
- Provide technical leadership during incidents, acting as an emergency resource to unblock teams and support the continuous delivery of critical initiatives
- Engage with the wider tech community, mentoring engineers, contributing to talent growth, and fostering a culture of collaboration, learning, and innovation within hx
Application process
- Initial chat with our Talent team to kick things off
- Manager Interview (60 minutes)
- Skills Interviews:
- Technical Assessment (120 minutes)
- Roleplay Interview (60 minutes)
- Values Interview
- We offer!
Salary benchmarks
Our take
hyperexponential was created to provide modelling software to help people and businesses build, deploy and manage analytical models that work with small, sparse and fragmented datasets. Its goal is to make teams more agile, collaborate more deeply, and work more productively.
hyperexponential's pricing and data-driven decision-making software is built for the speciality and commercial insurance markets. The product has broad applications, but the company's initial focus is on speciality insurance, a sector the founders know well, having worked there for more than a decade.
The company's making a name for itself too, working with some of Europe's biggest insurers to transform how pricing decisions are made. And its newest launch, hx AI, blends powerful AI with its core platform to help insurers build smarter models, faster. It's a strong signal that hyperexponential is not just growing, but ready to lead the way.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2024
$73m
SERIES B
Jun 2021
$18m
SERIES A
Total funding: $91m
Company benefits
- £5,000 for individual and group training and conference budget
- 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holiday days (33 in total)
- Company pension scheme via Penfold
- Mental health and therapy provision via Spectrum.life
- Individual wellbeing allowance via Juno
- Private healthcare insurance through AXA
- Top-spec equipment (laptop, screens, adjustable desks, etc)
- Regular remote & in-person hackathons, lunch & learns, socials and games nights
- Team breakfasts and lunches, snacks, drinks fridge, fun office @ The Ministry
Company values
- We are owners - We help move hyperexponential forward without being told
- We push boundaries - We keep going for ourselves and our customers when most would stop
- We grow - We learn deeply, by making things. We improve through data and insights
- We go deeper - We apply a thoughtful and customer centric mindset to all we do
- We do the right thing - We are usually nice, never disrespectful, and always kind
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Amrit Santhirasenan
(Co-Founder & CEO)CompSci at the University of York, qualified Actuary and previous Head of Pricing and Analytics of Tokio Marine Kiln, one of the largest managing agents at Lloyd’s.
People progressing
They joined hyperexponential in 2020 when the company still had a fairly small Engineering team. They were given the opportunity to step in as a Team Lead and ended up being one of the first Team Leaders within ProdEng.
Charlotte joined hx in 2022 and progressed from Project Manager to Delivery Lead, now driving strategic programmes and helping scale how we deliver cross-functional work.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at hyperexponential
Rotem Ben-David (Head of People Operations & Performance)
- We are committed to diversity and equal opportunity. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work and culture is. We are not yet where we want to be in terms of balance, but it is our mission to build a team that represents a variety of backgrounds and perspectives and we are working hard towards that goal.
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