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Skills: reactjs html css typescript javascript

Our mission

To reimagine technology to transform analytical decision-making, helping our customers make smarter decisions faster.

Who we are

The most interesting scaleup you haven’t yet heard of! Our product, Renew, lets users build and iterate complex mathematical models with the small, sparse and fragmented datasets that are used to drive critical decisions in many businesses. Such models are used to help answer questions like:

This sort of analysis has recently been neglected in favour of big data/analytics, but we are on a mission to change this. Our product has applications across multiple industries – we are focusing on speciality insurance to start with, but we believe our software has far further reach (including beyond the financial sector).

Why is this role special?

  • You will be an early member of a frontend team that will scale by 15+ people over the next 12-18 months
  • You will encounter Hard* engineering challenges and will make critical, load-bearing decisions that will shape the future of hx
  • You will have a direct, tangible impact on the entire future of a post-Series A scaleup

* capital ‘H’ intentional – we do some cool stuff you won’t see elsewhere

What does Engineering mean at hx?

Our Engineering team is front-and-centre in our mission to help our customers make smarter decisions faster. Building Renew has challenged us to solve many interesting problems, including:

  • How to run arbitrary customer code securely, whilst controlling for indeterminism without accidentally trying to solve the halting problem
  • How to produce a rich web-based development environment complete with IDE, version control, package management, tests, deployments and hosting... For non-developers
  • How to produce a UI that’s familiar to Excel users without actively tying us to Excel


We’ve historically solved these problems with hard work and smart thinking, but we've reached the ‘two pizza limit’ and need to move from ‘zero to one’ in places and ‘one to many’ in others so we can confidently solve more problems in parallel - problems like:

  • How will we reach our ‘north star’ of deploying on-demand whilst ensuring the safety, security and correctness of our product?
  • How do we safely move from one team to many and how should we divide the product domains?
  • How should we optimise our systems to run larger models, more quickly, for less overall cost?
  • Which systems need to be rewritten, refactored, removed or simply polished?
  • How do we produce a UI component toolkit for our users that looks great and works brilliantly – irrespective of the weird and wonderful ways they’re assembled

Who are we looking for?

You will need:

  • Deep knowledge of React and TypeScript
  • A passion for good, clean, elegant code
  • Experience building large and advanced user-centric web applications
  • Modern Frontend tooling (npm, yarn, Webpack, Create React App, Babel, PostCSS, esLint etc)
  • (X)HTML, HTML5, CSS3 (ideally with Flexbox)
  • Good knowledge of fundamental Computer Science and Software Engineering principles (Algorithms, Data Structures, Complexity, Design Patterns, Architecture)
  • A good general understanding of modern software development/deployment principles:
    • Version control (Git)
    • TDD/BDD


We additionally appreciate:

  • Modular CSS methodologies and styled components
  • Experience in building custom components to visual complex data
  • A ‘DevOps’ mindset – you build it, you own it
  • Knowledge of adjacent and/or complimentary domains such as platform, backend, product, reliability, security and/or quality
  • Community contributions through meetup/conference talks, blogs or open-source
  • Prior B2B SaaS experience


What do we offer?

  • Competitive salary + very staff-friendly EMI share options
  • £5,000 annual learning & development allowance
  • 33 days annual leave (inc. public holidays)
  • £250 gadget-for-the-office budget (on hiatus due to Covid)
  • Top-spec equipment (laptop, mechanical keyboards, screens, etc)
  • Huge opportunity for personal development and mastery as we grow together
  • 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 (sadly on hold due to COVID19)

What’s next?

hx is different and so is our hiring process. We want to see you at your best, so we let you customise the major stages – essentially a “choose your own adventure” hiring process that adapts to your individuality.

  • Initial call with our Talent team to kick things off
  • Introductory call with your future manager (with your choice of questions)
  • Practical skills assessment with your future colleagues
  • Meet the team (with your choice of who) + Meet the CTO + Meet the CEO
  • 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 Our new blog is now live!

Check it out at https://www.hyperexponential.com/blog



Time zone: (GMT+00:00) London

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Skills: reactjs typescript javascript

Head of Frontend Engineering at hx


Remote-First organisation - London HQ

Hurricanes
Advanced mathematics
Satellite launches
Technology
Concert tours
Smart people
…Telephone poles

What do all of these things have in common? hx!

Our mission

To reimagine technology to transform analytical decision-making, helping our customers make smarter decisions faster.



Who we are

The most interesting scaleup you haven’t yet heard of! Our product, Renew, lets users build and iterate complex mathematical models with the small, sparse and fragmented datasets that are used to drive critical decisions in many businesses. Such models are used to help answer questions like:

This sort of analysis has recently been neglected in favour of big data/analytics, but we are on a mission to change this. Our product has applications across multiple industries – we are focusing on speciality insurance to start with, but we believe our software has far further reach (including beyond the financial sector).



Why is this role special?

  • It’s one of the most influential roles we will ever hire in Engineering
  • You have the opportunity to lead a capability with responsibility for the people, technology and methods within it - operating with significant autonomy in a high trust, high expectation environment
  • You will be able to shape your team as it scales by 15+ people over the next 12-18m
  • You will encounter Hard* engineering challenges and will make critical, load-bearing decisions that will shape the future of hx

* capital ‘H’ intentional – we do some cool stuff you won’t see elsewhere


What does Engineering mean at hx?

Our Engineering team is front-and-centre in our mission to help our customers make smarter decisions faster. Building Renew has challenged us to solve many interesting problems, including:

  • How to run arbitrary customer code securely, whilst controlling for indeterminism without accidentally trying to solve the halting problem
  • How to produce a rich web-based development environment complete with IDE, version control, package management, tests, deployments and hosting... For non-developers
  • How to produce a UI that’s familiar to Excel users without actively tying us to Excel

We’ve historically solved these problems with hard work and smart thinking, but we've reached the ‘two pizza limit’ and need move from ‘zero to one’ in places and ‘one to many’ in others so we can confidently solve more problems in parallel - problems like:

  • How will we reach our ‘north star’ of deploying on-demand whilst ensuring the safety, security and correctness of our product?
  • How do we safely move from one team to many and how should we divide the product domains?
  • How should we optimise our systems to run larger models, more quickly, for less overall cost?
  • How will we thoughtfully add 50+ people to the Product Engineering organisation over the next 18-24m without lowering our standards?
  • Which systems need to be rewritten, refactored, removed or simply polished?
  • How do we produce a UI component toolkit for our users that looks great and works brilliantly – irrespective of the weird and wonderful ways they’re assembled


Who are we looking for?

A Head of Engineering who will own, operate, grow and define our entire frontend capability. Your capability will be a pivotal part of a larger Product Engineering organisation along with groups from Backend Engineering, Product, Quality, Reliability and Security, and you’ll be part of its leadership team.


You must have:

  • Leadership experience as a Director/Head of Engineering who has led through others, ideally at a fast-scaling technology organisation
  • Significant experience developing advanced cloud-native applications and services with React and TypeScript
  • Excellent knowledge and experience of fundamental CS/software engineering principles, including algorithms, data structures, complexity, testing, design patterns and architecture
  • Strong understanding and significant experience working with and implementing modern software delivery practices including agile, lean, Kanban, organisational design and product engineering
  • Demonstrable experience of strategic planning combined with effective delivery
  • Proven experience attracting, motivating, developing and inspiring talented engineers
  • Proven experience establishing principles, patterns and ways of working that eliminate friction and help teams deliver more than traditional thinking says is possible


You must be:

  • Someone who’s smart, kind and gets stuff done
  • Confident communicating clearly up, down, to the side, inside and outside an organisation
  • Organised, proactive, self-motivated and reliable, and must thrive in a high trust, high expectation environment


We additionally appreciate:

  • Knowledge of adjacent and/or complimentary domains such as platform, backend, product, reliability, security and/or quality
  • Community contributions through meetup/conference talks, blogs or open-source
  • Insurtech or fintech experience
  • Prior B2B SaaS experience

What will you do?

In your first week:

  • Meet everyone at our weekly company breakfast
  • Get set up, get to know hx and your team
  • Start learning about our past and present so you can define our future
  • Attend your first hx Engineering Forum, where we discuss and debate all things tech
  • Wrap the week at our all hands Show + Tell


Within one month:

  • Take the reins of your capability and responsibility for its success
  • Have understood and prioritised the people, technology and method challenges you want to tackle now/next/later and be developing a strategy to address them
  • Add new perspectives to our thinking through our design/ideation sessions


Within three months:

  • Have developed and agreed your strategy and will be actively delivering it
  • Have landed your first hires and be working with our Talent team to keep the pipeline full and flowing
  • Be working with your peers across Product Engineering to establish new cross-functional delivery teams
  • Be sharing our story with the world in a way that suits you


Within six months:

  • Have made your capability your own - with your people, technology and methods aligned to your strategy and direction
  • Be accelerating innovation across hx directly through your capability and indirectly through your network and influence
  • Be working with the CTO to identify and deliver additional strategic initiatives, tactical workstreams and/or special projects
  • Understand our market, product, and value streams intimately
  • Be thoughtfully influencing the broader product strategy and roadmap


What do we offer?

  • Competitive salary + very staff-friendly EMI share options
  • £5,000 annual learning & development allowance
  • 33 days annual leave (inc. public holidays)
  • £250 gadget-for-the-office budget (on hiatus due to COVID19)
  • Top-spec equipment (choice of Apple or Dell laptop, mechanical keyboards, screens, etc)
  • Huge opportunity for personal development and mastery as we grow together
  • Regular remote hackathons, lunch & learns, socials and games nights
  • Team breakfasts and lunches, snacks, drinks fridge, fun office @ the Peckham Levels,
  • Annual team trip somewhere warm (sadly on hold due to COVID19)

What’s next?

hx is different and so is our hiring process. We want to see you at your best, so we let you customise the major stages – essentially a “choose your own adventure” hiring process that adapts to your individuality.

  • Initial call with our Talent team to kick things off
  • Introductory call with your future manager (with your choice of questions)
  • Practical skills assessment with your future colleagues
  • Meet the Chiefs
  • Meet the team (with your choice of who) + Meet the CTO + Meet the CEO
  • 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.

If you like the sound of this role but you’re not totally sure whether you’re the right fit – please apply anyway and we’ll let you know either way. Remember: you miss every shot you don’t take!

PS Our new blog is now live!

Check it out at https://medium.com/hyperexponential



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Skills: kotlin python java go

Senior Backend Engineer 

(remote until further notice due to COVID19)  

Hurricanes 

Advanced mathematics 

Satellite launches 

Technology 

Concert tours 

Smart people 

...Telephone poles

What do these things have in common? hx! The most interesting startup you haven’t heard of yet. We combine advanced mathematics, the latest technology and the smartest people to help our clients solve truly hard problems with weird and wonderful datasets.

Our mission

To reimagine technology to transform analytical decision-making, helping our customers make smarter decisions faster.

Who are we (and what do we do?)

We are a successful three-year-old startup disrupting the speciality insurance sector with our SaaS platform, Renew. Renew lets actuaries rapidly build and iterate complex mathematical models in an advanced web-based development environment which are then used by underwriters to price insurance for special cases like hurricanes, satellite launches, concert tours and telephone poles (seriously!)

The nature of our problem space means we work on truly hard, interesting, varied problems that you’re unlikely to find at most other companies. If that sounds interesting – read on!

 How do we do it?

We’re a small but growing team of smart and kind people who are deeply passionate about what we do. Here’s how we work:

Team + People

We:

  • Live our values of excellence, initiative, passion, kindness and thoughtfulness
  • Are excellent to one another, putting our colleagues and the team ahead of ourselves
  • Work collaboratively when needed and with trust and aligned autonomy when not
  • Take pride in our work by building quality in and caring about how it works in production
  • Are always learning, sharing knowledge and pushing ourselves to be better every day
  • Can say “I don’t know” or ask for help safely without fear of judgement

Technology

  • Frontend: React (w/Redux, Sagas, styled-components), TypeScript
  • Backend: Kotlin (w/Spring Boot), plus some Java, Go and Python 
  • Platform & Infra: AWS (w/Lambda, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL RDS, ECS), Terraform, Docker
  • General: Gitlab, Miro, Notion

Ways of working

We:

  • Deliver small increments of work through an agile/kanban/lean process
  • Think first, act fast - then iterate 
  • Continually improve our ways of working with tight feedback loops 
  • Believe failure is part of success 
  • Understand the need to balance technical purity against the need to deliver 
  • Appreciate the value of simplicity and the power of ‘boring’ 

What will you do?

2021 is going to be a big year for hx. Our profile is growing rapidly, and our customer base with it. We have tonnes of exciting features to develop, and we want to deliver more of them in parallel, sooner, safer, than we’ve ever done before. To make sure we’re set for the future we’re going to be looking at all our systems, refreshing most of them and reworking the rest to get us ready for anything.

It’s a deeply exciting prospect for us, and the Senior Engineers are critical to its success.

As a Senior Engineer you’ll:

  • Help us build the right thing by working with product managers, designers, fellow engineers and customers to understand problems and develop solutions 
  • Help us build the thing right by writing high quality, thoughtful, simple, commented, documented, tested, well-structured code aligned to our constants, principles and standards
  • Drive our technical standards, decisions, and strategy
  • Guide, mentor and advise other members of the team
  • Continually learn and improve yourself. Experiment and play with new technologies through your work, extracurriculars and hackathons
  • Help reduce friction and eliminate impediments that slow us down
  • Promote hx in the community by contributing to open source projects, writing on our blog and/or presenting at virtual meetups/conferences 

In your first week you’ll:

  • Meet everyone at our weekly company breakfast
  • Get set up, get to know hx and your team
  • Start learning our ways of working
  • Attend your first hx Engineering Forum, where we discuss and debate all things tech
  • Wrap the week at our all hands Show + Tell

Within your first month you’ll:

  • Know our ways of working inside-out
  • Be adding value by developing features and fixing bugs
  • Be reviewing code against our constants, principles and standards
  • Add your voice to our design/ideation sessions 

Within three months you’ll be:

  • Delivering major features from ideation through development to production
  • Helping us make hard decisions, and improving our standards and ways of working
  • Guiding, mentoring and advising other members of the team

Who are we looking for?

You should apply if you:

  • Love everything you’ve read so far
  • Have significant experience using Kotlin (or Java) to build and operate cloud-native applications at scale from design to production
  • Have a good working knowledge of fundamental computer science and software engineering principles (algorithms, data structures, complexity, design patterns, architecture)
  • Value our values (excellence, initiative, passion, kindness, thoughtfulness) as much as we do

You should definitely apply if you:

  • Have experience with any of our other technologies (i.e you’re T-shaped or ’full stack’) and/or technologies equivalent, adjacent or complimentary to ours
  • Love science, technology, engineering and/or mathematics
  • You have experience with insurance or insurtech
  • You like any, many, or all of the following: stroopwafels, meditation, yoga, weightlifting, competition shooting, Japanese music, motorcycles, classic flash games, surfing, curry, golf, CTFs, dogs or running

What do we offer?

  • Salary up to £80,000
  • Very team-friendly EMI share options
  • £5,000 annual learning & development allowance
  • 33 days annual leave (inc. public holidays)
  • £250 gadget budget
  • Choice of equipment (top-spec Apple or Dell laptop, screens, mechanical keyboard, etc)
  • Huge opportunity for personal development and mastery as we grow together 
  • Regular remote hackathons, lunch & learns, snacks, socials and games nights
  • Team breakfasts and lunches, snacks, drinks fridge, socials, fun office @ the Peckham Levels, annual team trip somewhere warm (sadly on hold due to COVID19)

What’s next?

hx is different and so is our hiring process. We want to see you at your best, so we let you customise the major stages – essentially a “choose your own adventure” hiring process that adapts to your individuality.

  1. Initial call with our Talent team to kick things off 
  2. Introductory call with your future manager (with your choice of questions)  
  3. Technical assessment with your future colleagues (with your choice of format) 
  4. Meet the team (with your choice of who) + Meet the CTO + Meet the CEO 
  5. We offer! 

Diversity @ hx

We are committed to diversity and equal opportunity. We’re a smart 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.

If you like the sound of this role but you’re not totally sure whether you’re the right fit – please apply anyway and we’ll let you know either way. Remember: you miss every shot you don’t take!

PS Our new blog is now live! 

Check it out at https://medium.com/hyperexponential 



Time zone: (GMT+00:00) London +/- 2 hours

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