Staff Platform Engineer
hyperexponential4 months 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 well-designed and documented platform capabilities that reduce provisioning and deployment friction.
- Influence platform strategy using internal customer feedback, usage data, adoption dynamics, and business outcomes.
- Identify architectural, security, operational, and cost risks before they become incidents and influence engineering practices across the organization.
- Develop senior engineers through technical challenge, feedback, mentorship, and exposure to complex problems.
- Represent platform strategy to senior leadership and translate engineering constraints into business language.
Requirements
- Experience defining platform architecture, standards, and patterns over a multi-quarter horizon.
- Experience making high-judgment foundational trade-offs such as build versus buy, depth versus breadth, and short-term pragmatism versus long-term coherence.
- Experience navigating disagreement among senior engineers, architects, and stakeholders and establishing durable technical decisions.
- Experience being accountable for outcomes spanning multiple teams without personally delivering every initiative.
- Experience embedding AI and automation into platform architecture and establishing patterns for AI-augmented engineering workflows.
- Understanding of internal customer needs, platform adoption dynamics, and barriers to self-service.
- Experience identifying architectural, security, and operational risks and influencing broader engineering practices around reliability, security posture, and cost efficiency.
- Ability to connect platform decisions to business outcomes and communicate strategy to senior leadership.
- Experience actively developing senior engineers and raising 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, drinks, and access to an office at The Ministry.
- Background checks are conducted as part of the hiring process, and the interview process includes a talent call, manager interview, technical system-design assessment, and values interview.
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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.