Platform engineer in insurance

At hyperexponential, we're building the AI-powered platform that enables the world's most critical decisions in a £7 trillion industry, which risks to take, and how to price them. These are the decisions that shape real-world outcomes: whether rockets successfully launch into space, autonomous vehicles make it to market, or communities recover after major storms.

• Establish a coherent 12–18 month technical direction for the platform, with clearly articulated trade-offs, milestones, and alignment across engineering leadership. The roadmap is understood, trusted, and actively referenced by stakeholders.
• Platform capabilities are adopted broadly across engineering, not because teams are told to use them, but because they are well-designed, well-documented, and genuinely reduce friction. Measurable reduction in Platform as a bottleneck for common provisioning and deployment tasks.
• Define the architectural patterns and standards that enable autonomous and AI-augmented workflows across the organisation. Other engineers can build AI-native capabilities without requiring Platform's direct involvement in every initiative.
• Platform defined standards for security, reliability, and operational excellence are embedded into how all teams build not enforced through gatekeeping, but adopted because they are the path of least resistance. Measurable reduction in misconfiguration, security exceptions, and operational incidents across the estate.
• Senior engineers are visibly stronger for having worked alongside you. The team develops better instincts for architecture, trade-offs, and platform thinking. You are sought out as a technical authority.

• Defined the architecture, standards, and patterns for the platform domain over a multi-quarter horizon. Makes high-judgement calls on foundational trade-offs such as build vs buy, depth vs breadth, short-term pragmatism vs long-term coherence and brings the organisation along on those decisions.aa
• Navigating disagreement across senior engineers, architects, and stakeholders to reach durable technical decisions. Comfortable holding a position under pressure, updating it when presented with better evidence, and ensuring decisions stick once made.a
• Accountability for outcomes that span multiple teams and that they do not personally deliver. Designs systems, standards, and enablement approaches that multiply the effectiveness of the engineers araound them, rather than being the primary hands-on contributor to every initiative.
• Defined how AI and automation are embedded into the platform at an architectural level not just experimenting with tools, but establishing patterns that make AI-augmented workflows the default for engineering teams across the organisation.
• Understanding of the adoption dynamics, internal customer needs, and the systemic barriers to self-service. Shapes the platform roadmap based on feedback, usage data, and a clear-eyed view of where friction exists and ensures the platform earns its adoption rather than mandating it.
• Identified architectural, security, and operational risks before they become incidents. Influences how the broader engineering organisation thinks about reliability, security posture, and cost efficiency not just within Platform's direct remit.
• Connecting platform decisions to business outcomes clearly and credibly. Can represent the platform strategy to senior leadership, translate engineering constraints into business language, and use commercial context to sharpen technical priorities.aa
• Actively developing senior engineers through technical challenge, honest feedback, and deliberate exposure to harder problems. Recognised as someone who raises the capability of the team, not just the quality of the code. Models the engineering culture the organisation is trying to build.

• You'll always have clarity on pay early in the process - our Talent Partner will share details with you during initial conversations - and we're working towards publishing salary information for all roles globally.
• Our approach is to design compensation that's competitive in the market, fair across teams, and aligned with the impact our people make.
• We offer equity across all roles at hx, making it a significant component of total compensation. Your Talent Partner will be able to share more details about this.
• B2B
• Share Options at a highly successful Series B company
• 25 days of non-working + Polish bank holidays
• £5,000 GBP budget for Learning & Development
• Mental Health Support and Therapy via Spectrum Life
• Optional for you: access to Private Healthcare via Luxmed + Multisport (fully funded by yourself as B2B Contractor)
• Top-spec laptop (MacOS or Windows)
• Contract of Employment (UoP)
• Share Options at a highly successful Series B company
• £5,000 GBP budget for Learning & Development
• 26 days of holiday + Polish bank holidays
• Company pension
• Company Sick Pay for 10 days at 100% salary
• Mental Health Support and Therapy via Spectrum Life
• Monthly Wellbeing allowance via Juno
• Private Healthcare Insurance via Luxmed
• Multisport - Classic level
• Top-spec work equipment (MacOS, Windows + additional monitors, mechanical keyboards etc)