Engineering Manager
About this role
Ki’s mission is simple. Digitally disrupt and revolutionise a 335-year-old market. Working with Google and UCL, Ki has created a platform that uses algorithms, machine learning and large language models to give insurance brokers quotes in seconds, rather than days. Ki is proudly the biggest global algorithmic insurance carrier. It is the fastest growing syndicate in the Lloyd's of London market, and the first ever to make $100m in profit in 3 years. Ki’s teams have varied backgrounds and work together in an agile, cross-functional way to build the very best experience for its customers. Ki has big ambitions but needs more excellent minds to challenge the status-quo and help it reach new horizons.Where you come in?Our broker platform is the core technology crucial to Ki's success – allowing us to evolve underwriting intelligently and unlock massive scale. We're a multi-disciplined team, bringing together expertise in software and data engineering, full stack development, platform operations, algorithm research, and data science. Our squads focus on delivering high-impact features – we favour a highly iterative, analytical approach. We are looking for an Engineering Manager who is experienced in building successful engineering teams and who has the following abilities:You know how to help teams maintain a focus on delivery, and ensure they are motivated, collaborating and working wellYou understand Agile and Lean methodologies and can demonstrate these through effective coaching You understand the importance of professional development and support individuals with setting goals and development plansYou are passionate about helping others achieve their goalsYou excel at learning and push yourself to develop your skillsYou are an excellent communicator, able to deliver information at all levels (technical and non-technical) and influence where neededWhat you will be doing: 🖋️Recruit and lead technical talentBe both highly technical and an effective people managerCollaborate with various functions, drive engineering initiatives, and have an impact at an organisational levelMeasure the impact of your team and set clear expectations and goalsWork with the CTO and Senior Engineering Manager to develop and implement the strategy for technological development (the architecture, tech stack and infrastructure) in support of Ki’s strategic vision and objectivesRepresent Ki as a senior management role to senior stakeholders (KiMC, Investors, etc) Experience in the same or related role and experience of leading other engineersPrevious experience of software development in the financial markets, FinTech or InsurTech is preferableStrong technical strategy planning experience, able to advocate for proposed solutions across an organisation at all levelsExperience with all phases of software development life cycle, best practices, and Agile Software DevelopmentProven experience designing and developing microservice-based architecturesA background in development with strong prior experience in languages and frameworks such as Java, Python, JavaScript, Node.js, Spring Boot, Flask, KotlinDirect commercial experience with a major cloud provider. GCP is preferredExperience working in and advocating for a fully-automated, rapid development environment where tools and approaches such as CI/CD, DevOps, and GitOps were utilisedExperience with project management and workflow tools (e.g.
What this role is, and what else it is called
Employers in London advertise this kind of work as IT Manager, Chief Technology Officer, Director of Engineering and Head of IT too, so it is worth searching more than one wording. It is a lead or principal IT Leadership & Management role in London, advertised as on-site.
About hiring at Ki Insurance
Ki Insurance has 3 other live technology roles on its careers page, across Software Engineering, Data, AI & Machine Learning and IT Leadership & Management. Elsewhere in its adverts Ki Insurance asks for TypeScript, React, Scrum, AWS and PostgreSQL. See all Ki Insurance roles, salaries and stack.
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