Data Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom

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hyperexponential

We are transforming insurance through the power of decision intelligence.

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Mission

We are a product engineering led technology scale-up applying complex computer science techniques to change the way risk is determined within insurance, through our SaaS platform, Renew.

Renew has been carefully engineered to let users build and deploy mathematical models that can then harness complex data sets to drive better decision making in insurance.

To use a real-world example of how this has been applied - one client used Renew to price insurance for a Space X launch, wrangling all manner of weird and wonderful data to predict the risk/likelihood of every possible outcome, from arrival at the launchpad to breaking through each layer of earth's atmosphere, to a safe return home, and every potential obstacle along the way - including space debris!

After only five years we have a client-base ranging from niche specialty insurers up to some of the largest enterprise insurers globally - each with thousands of users. We achieved profitability after just three years, but given the opportunity we have to further disrupt the market and establish ourselves as the go-to modelling software/platform that can be used far beyond just insurance, we raised a Series A fundraise with Highland Europe to help us scale to a team of 100 and together achieve this goal!

Technology and Data at hx

Our engineering department is a melting pot of some of the brightest (and kindest!) engineers in the industry.

The level of complexity of Renew requires a highly technical, true engineering mindset so an output of this is a deeply creative, innovative environment where we push technological boundaries, both through our work and our regular (and sometimes irregular!) hackathons.

You will be joining our Data Experience team, whose mission is to maximise the value that hx and our customers can extract from data. We’ve only just begun our data journey, which gives us an exciting opportunity to build a state of the art data function from scratch. Our initial objective is to create a reporting and analytics platform for internal use by the various teams at hx. You will be helping to build the data pipelines that underpin this platform, allowing hx to derive insights and understanding into how our product is used. This role provides a unique opportunity to get involved in a data function at the ground floor, allowing for considerable influence in how we design and build the platform.

The Data Experience team will also be looking to build new systems that allow our customers to better interact with and understand their own data. We’re not yet sure what this offering will look like, so there’s opportunity to make a large impact on the direction of the product.


Key Responsibilities

  • Helping to build our greenfield data platform for internal analytics
  • Working with various teams across hx to understand their needs for data
  • Designing, implementing and improving our ETL pipelines for serving hx’s data requirements


Initial Deliverables

1 month:

  • Got up to speed with our data pipeline, tooling and services
  • Stat contributing to our existing ETL workflows

2 months:

  • Integrating additional technology data sources to the pipeline
  • Getting involved in the design of new pipelines
  • Are comfortable with an increased level of ownership of our data pipeline.

3 months:

  • Technical ownership of our pipeline
  • Assisting in building the data function within Technology
  • Fully supporting product and engineering leadership with data requirements
  • Working with stakeholders to understand gaps in our data lake

What you bring

You will need:

  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling like Terraform
  • Strong Experience with Apache Spark (Scala or Python)
  • Strong SQL skills with good knowledge of database technologies
  • Experience building and working with cloud based data architectures
  • A solid software engineering background with experience in modern development practices
  • A solid software engineering background with passion for clean, well tested code

We’d additionally appreciate

  • Experience with Apache Airflow
  • Experience with serverless infrastructure in AWS
  • Experience with monitoring, optimising and tuning Apache Spark jobs
  • Knowledge of various BI tools and some basic data visualisation and exploration skills
  • Experience with Gitlab CI/CD

Persona

You are an owner. Ownership is a key part of how the Technology team and all of hx operate. You own your responsibilities - which means defining and executing on how and what you deliver. You care deeply about your work and are proud of your achievements.

You care deeply about helping people make better use of data, and you care as deeply about the technology and engineering involved in making that happen. You take pride in building resilient, maintainable and well-tested software.

You are able to gain a good technical understanding of the architecture and technical implementation of a product and platform.

You are always learning and improving how you work. You understand that the team is more than the sum of its parts, and are keen to help level-up the team via knowledge sharing and process improvements.


What do we offer?

  • Competitive salary + very staff-friendly EMI share options
  • £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 Vitality
  • Top-spec equipment (laptop, screens, mechanical keyboards, etc)
  • Regular remote hackathons, lunch & learns, socials and games nights
  • Team breakfasts and lunches, snacks, drinks fridge, fun office @ The Ministry
  • Annual team trip somewhere warm
  • Huge opportunity for personal development and mastery as we grow together!

What’s next?

  • Initial call with our Talent team to kick things off
  • Introductory call with the Head of Engineering
  • Practical skills assessment
  • Meet the VP of Engineering
  • We offer!

Diversity @ hx

We are committed to diversity and equal opportunity. We’re a talented and high-energy, but low-ego and kind team who believes 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.

PS - Check out our blog at https://www.hyperexponential.com/blog

* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰

Tags: Airflow Architecture AWS CI/CD Computer Science Data pipelines Engineering ETL GitLab Pipelines Python Scala Spark SQL Terraform

Perks/benefits: Career development Competitive pay Equity Gear Health care Home office stipend

Region: Europe
Country: United Kingdom
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Category: Engineering Jobs

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