Staff Platform Engineer
hyperexponential2 days ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Establish and communicate a coherent 12–18 month technical direction for the platform, including trade-offs, milestones, and alignment with engineering leadership.
- Define architectural patterns and standards for self-service infrastructure, AI-augmented workflows, security, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Drive broad adoption of platform capabilities by treating the platform as a product with internal customers and reducing provisioning and deployment friction.
- Influence cross-team technical decisions, identify risks early, and connect platform strategy to business outcomes and commercial context.
- Develop senior engineers through technical challenge, feedback, mentorship, and exposure to complex problems.
Requirements
- Experience defining platform architecture, standards, and patterns over a multi-quarter horizon.
- Experience making high-judgement technical decisions involving build-versus-buy, short-term pragmatism, long-term coherence, and other foundational trade-offs.
- Ability to navigate disagreement among senior engineers, architects, and stakeholders and ensure durable technical decisions are adopted.
- Experience delivering outcomes across multiple teams through architecture, standards, and enablement rather than primarily through individual hands-on contribution.
- Experience embedding AI and automation into platform architecture and engineering workflows.
- Understanding of internal customer needs, adoption dynamics, usage data, and barriers to self-service.
- Ability to identify architectural, security, operational, and cost risks and influence broader engineering practices.
- Ability to represent platform strategy to senior leadership and translate engineering constraints into business language.
- Demonstrated ability to develop senior engineers and raise team capability.
Benefits
- £5,000 training and conference budget for individual and group development.
- 25 days of holiday plus 8 bank holidays, for 33 days total.
- Company pension scheme via Penfold.
- Mental health support and therapy via Spectrum.life.
- Individual wellbeing allowance via Juno.
- Private healthcare insurance through AXA.
- Income protection and life insurance.
- Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Top-spec equipment including a laptop, screens, and adjustable desks.
- Remote and in-person hackathons, lunch and learns, socials, game nights, team breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and drinks.
- Exceptional opportunities for personal development and growth.
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About hyperexponential
hyperexponential builds an AI-driven underwriting and pricing platform for commercial property and casualty insurers, used by underwriters, actuaries, and portfolio leaders. The SaaS system governs decision logic, models complex risks, and plugs into carrier workflows; top global carriers use it for underwriting decisions across $75B+ in annual premium. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, the company is privately held.