Staff Platform Engineer
hyperexponential1 day ago
Warsaw, PolandStaff+
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 platform adoption by creating well-designed, well-documented capabilities that reduce provisioning and deployment friction.
- Influence technical decisions and outcomes spanning multiple teams without personally delivering every initiative.
- Identify architectural, security, operational, and cost risks before they become incidents.
- Connect platform strategy and technical constraints to business outcomes and communicate them to senior leadership.
- Develop senior engineers through technical challenge, feedback, and exposure to increasingly complex problems.
Requirements
- Experience defining architecture, standards, and patterns for a platform domain over a multi-quarter horizon.
- Experience making high-judgment foundational decisions, including build-versus-buy and short-term-versus-long-term trade-offs.
- Ability to navigate disagreement among senior engineers, architects, and stakeholders and establish durable technical decisions.
- Experience designing systems, standards, and enablement approaches that multiply the effectiveness of engineers across multiple teams.
- Experience embedding AI and automation into platform architecture and establishing organization-wide patterns for AI-augmented workflows.
- Understanding of platform adoption dynamics, internal customer needs, usage data, and systemic barriers to self-service.
- Ability to influence broader engineering practices around reliability, security posture, and cost efficiency.
- 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.
- Comfort with ambiguous problems, experimentation, rapid change, and continuous improvement.
- Ability to treat platform engineering as a product with internal customers whose adoption and satisfaction determine success.
Benefits
- B2B contractor arrangement is listed as an option.
- Contract of Employment (UoP) is listed as an option.
- Share options at a highly successful Series B company.
- 25 days of non-working time plus Polish bank holidays are listed for one arrangement.
- 26 days of holiday plus Polish bank holidays are listed for another arrangement.
- £5,000 GBP learning and development budget.
- Mental health support and therapy through Spectrum Life.
- Private healthcare options through Luxmed, including a company-funded option for the employment arrangement and an optional self-funded option for B2B contractors.
- Multisport benefits, including Classic level for the employment arrangement and an optional self-funded option for B2B contractors.
- Company pension and company sick pay for 10 days at 100% salary.
- Monthly wellbeing allowance through Juno.
- Top-spec work equipment, including MacOS or Windows laptops and additional monitors and mechanical keyboards.
- Background checks are conducted as part of the hiring process.
Tech Stack
macOSWindows
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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.