About Ki
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 to digitally disrupt and revolutionise a 335‑year‑old market, providing insurance brokers quotes in seconds rather than days through a platform built on algorithms, machine learning and large‑language models.
Responsibilities
* Build robust and scalable software for business‑critical, web‑based applications
* Build eye‑catching, functional, efficient and reusable web and mobile‑based sites that drive these web applications
* Design, build, test, document and maintain APIs and integrations
* Ensure quality control using industry‑standard techniques such as automated testing, pairing and code review
* Work with the Product team to understand end‑user requirements and translate them into an effective technical solution
* Document technical design and analysis work
* Assess current system architecture and identify opportunities for growth and improvement
* Build mock‑ups or prototypes to explore and troubleshoot new initiatives
* Work with the Product team and UX designers to review designs, implement new features and ensure user experience is top level
* Explore new ideas and emerging technologies, develop prototypes quickly
* Promote a culture of continuous improvement and positively influence current ways of working, leading by example
* Serve as a domain expert in many of Ki’s core technologies
* Mentor and coach colleagues in both engineering and business domain subjects towards building their own abilities and skills
* Be opinionated regarding system architecture, able to suggest improvements and changes required to support delivery of new functionality where needed
Qualifications
* Experience as a mid‑senior level engineer working across a modern web stack
* Strong software engineering principles (SOLID, DRY, ER modeling)
* Professional experience with a server‑side language, ideally JVM based
* Professional experience building web‑based single‑page applications using React/TypeScript or an equivalent
* Knowledge of front‑end development, able to build rich user interfaces following a responsive design
* HTML/CSS experience, including concepts such as layout, specificity, cross‑browser compatibility and accessibility
* Comfortable working with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure‑as‑code, familiar with standard logging and monitoring tools used to investigate issues
* Experience with continuous integration or ideally continuous delivery
* Strong familiarity with build tools (e.g. Maven) and version control tools (e.g. Git/Github)
* 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)
* Previous experience of software development in the financial markets, fintech or insurtech is preferable
Benefits
We offer a highly competitive remuneration and benefits package that is regularly reviewed to remain relevant. The company recognises and rewards extraordinary effort by teams and individuals.
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