Senior Backend Engineer (Warsaw)
hyperexponential, Poland
Job Description
We are an engineering-led technology scale-up applying complex computer science techniques to change the way risk is determined and to drive better decision making through our SaaS platform, Renew. Renew has been carefully engineered to let users build and deploy mathematical models that can then be used to harness the power of complex data sets, while at the same time enhancing their own technical skillset.
We are currently applying this to specialty insurance pricing and Renew has already solved a great number of deeply complex problems for its users, including how to insure a Space X launch! This involved wrangling all manner of weird and wonderful, fragmented datasets to calculate the risk of any possible obstacle and outcome, right from the astronauts’ arrival at the launchpad to the rocket breaking through each layer of earth's atmosphere and then a safe return to Earth, accounting for every potential obstacle along the way - including space debris!
We are currently partnered with some of the largest and most cutting-edge names in specialty and enterprise insurance today, and our client base is growing rapidly. Over the last 2 years we have grown from a 15-person start-up to a 100-person, post-Series A scale-up with teams in London at The Ministry, Borough, and Warsaw at Brain Embassy, Czackiego.
Technology 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.
What will you do?
2023 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 you could be part of it!
As a Senior Backend Engineer you will:
- 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
- Within your first month:
- You will work your way (with plenty of help) through the first stages of our incredibly thorough on-boarding process
- You’re going to be working with some amazing people, both within Product Engineering and the rest of hx - so meeting and getting to know your fellow hxers is high on your list
- We’re always improving how we do things, not least our development process, so getting up to speed with this will help you kick start
- Take off - have your first changes committed and deployed to at least our development environment
- Within your first two months, you will have:
- Been involved in ideating solutions for upcoming work - we get engineers involved in the process as soon as possible
- Written your first blog post - we’re pretty sure that almost every day you’ll solve something in a way that others will find interesting - and we share that
- Worked with your manager to lay our your personal development plan for the next twelve months. Developing you as a person is very important to hx (and we need to make sure you have a plan to use the amazing training budget you’ll get!)
- Within three months you will have:
- With your team, delivered on a substantial piece of work - engineers at hx are responsible for how things are designed and implemented - you’ll work through this process from end to end, with your team.
- Enrolled in a course at hx University - building on how important your growth is to us, we want you to make use all the resources available to you, and hx University is a great place to start
- Delivered your first "Brown bag" lesson - share what you know - if you have knowledge to share that you think will be of interest to other