Software Engineer

Innovation Group
London
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Job Details: Software Engineer

Vacancy Name:Software Engineer

Employment Type:Permanent

Location:London

Role Details

Who are we?

Look at the latest headlines and you will see something Ki insures. Think space shuttles, world tours, wind farms, and even footballers’ legs.

Ki’s mission is simple. Digitally disrupt and revolutionise a 335-year-old market. Working with Google and UCL, Ki has created a platform that uses algorithms, machine learning and large language models to give insurance brokers quotes in seconds, rather than days.

Ki is proudly the biggest global algorithmic insurance carrier. It is the fastest growing syndicate in the Lloyds of London market, and the first ever to make $100m in profit in 3 years.

Ki’s teams have varied backgrounds and work together in an agile, cross-functional way to build the very best experience for its customers. Ki has big ambitions but needs more excellent minds to challenge the status-quo and help it reach new horizons.

What you will be doing

Our broker platform is the core technology crucial to Kis success, allowing us to evolve underwriting intelligently and unlock massive scale. Were a multi-disciplined team, bringing together expertise in software and data engineering, full stack development, platform operations, algorithm research, and data science. Our squads focus on delivering high-impact features, favouring a highly iterative, analytical approach.

Daily Responsibilities

You will build robust and scalable software for business-critical, web-based applications, design, build, test, document, and maintain APIs and integrations, and develop new functionality in our core Kotlin- and Python-based services, working in multidisciplinary teams. You will also ensure quality control using industry-standard techniques such as automated testing, pairing, and code review. You will work with the Product team to understand end-user requirements and translate them into an effective technical solution.

What you will bring

You will have commercial experience of working across a modern web stack and will bring strong software engineering principles (SOLID, DRY, ER modelling) as well as experience with a server-side language, ideally JVM based. You should be comfortable working with cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, and familiar with standard logging and monitoring tools used to investigate issues. You will also have experience with continuous integration, or ideally, continuous delivery, a strong familiarity with build tools (e.g. Maven) and version control tools (e.g. Git/Github), as well as experience working in agile teams, following Scrum or Kanban, participating in regular ceremonies including stand-ups, planning, and retrospectives. Experience using project management and workflow tools (e.g. Jira) would be great, and although previous experience of software development in the financial markets, Fintech or Insurtech is preferable, it is not essential.

Our culture

Inclusion & Diversity is at the heart of our business at Ki. We recognise that diversity in age, race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, physical ability, thought and social background bring richness to our working environment. No matter who you are, where you’re from, how you think, or who you love, we believe you should be you.

You’ll get a highly competitive remuneration and benefits package. This is kept under constant review to make sure it stays relevant. We understand the power of saying thank you and take time to acknowledge and reward extraordinary effort by teams or individuals.

If this sounds like a role and a culture that appeals to you, let us know.

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