Solutions Architect

at  hyperexponential

OUR MISSION

hx is taking the traditional insurance industry by storm with our SaaS platform Renew, which insurers use to build complex mathematical models to make better pricing decisions faster - decisions like “how much should I charge Adele to insure her worldwide concert tour?” or “how much should I charge California to insure all of its public buildings against a massive earthquake?”.
Renew is self-serve, allowing insurers to rapidly develop and iterate models in Python and React with all of the benefits of a modern software development environment, but without any of the overhead historically required to support one. This has allowed them to reduce the typical ‘time-to-model’ from months to weeks, and sometimes even days!
This winning formula means we’ve become a market leader in just five years, with customers ranging from the largest (Aviva, ‘Top 5’ US Insurer) to the newest and most advanced (Convex, Inigo) - proving the power and flexibility of Renew.
In 2023 we doubled our revenue. We recently received our Series B raising $73M and are on a path to become an Insurtech Unicorn ($1bn valuation). Our plan is to reach $100M in revenue in the next 2-3 years, which is ambitious but very achievable.
Want to help us write the next chapter of our epic tale? You’ll be joining a team filled with the smartest and kindest operators in the industry, all proudly aligned to a mantra of working ‘smart and hard’ (meaning challenging problems, not long hours). You’ll grow as we grow, giving yourself a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of a successful scaleup as it accelerates into the future. Lastly: you’ll have fun doing it - guaranteed.
It’s always the best time to join hx, but if there were a best best time - it’s now.

BUSINESS-SAVVY

You get stuff done. You understand that you’re a senior employee of an efficient business, and it’s your responsibility to maintain or improve that efficiency through your work. You demonstrate this by being pragmatic in your approach, focussing on ROI, and by constantly looking for opportunities to standardise and document repeatable processes, allowing you and the team to focus on high-value, unique, exciting work.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

hx is far less interested in counting years over evidence of delivery, and our requirements reflect this.

To be successful in this role, you’ll need to have:

• Experience working as a Solutions Architect (or equivalent: Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Field Engineer, etc) with a demonstrable track record of working with clients to deliver effective and efficient solutions
• Software development skills and experience (ideally Python, and/or Rust, Go, Kotlin, Java, etc)
• Sound technical knowledge, ideally across multiple technical competencies and levels (e.g APIs, networking, databases, security, compliance, observability, architecture)
• Excellent communication skills (written, graphical, remote, in-person, presentation, one:one, one:many) with the ability to engage, influence, and inspire stakeholders and colleagues to drive collaboration and alignment
• Understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, HTTP, routing, firewalls, TLS, VPNs)
• Understanding and experience of Authentication and Authorisation patterns (SAML, SCIM, OAuth, JWT, etc) and providers (e.g Okta, Auth0, AzureAD, etc)
• Good understanding and experience of interfaces and integration patterns (APIs, message queues, webhooks, SQL, etc)

Bonus points:

• Experience working with insurance technology
• Experience working within a high-growth enterprise B2B SaaS scaleup
• Experience producing requirements for internal product development teams

To be successful in this role, you’ll need to have:

• Experience working as a Solutions Architect (or equivalent: Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Field Engineer, etc) with a demonstrable track record of working with clients to deliver effective and efficient solutions
• Software development skills and experience (ideally Python, and/or Rust, Go, Kotlin, Java, etc)
• Sound technical knowledge, ideally across multiple technical competencies and levels (e.g APIs, networking, databases, security, compliance, observability, architecture)
• Excellent communication skills (written, graphical, remote, in-person, presentation, one:one, one:many) with the ability to engage, influence, and inspire stakeholders and colleagues to drive collaboration and alignment
• Understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, HTTP, routing, firewalls, TLS, VPNs)
• Understanding and experience of Authentication and Authorisation patterns (SAML, SCIM, OAuth, JWT, etc) and providers (e.g Okta, Auth0, AzureAD, etc)
• Good understanding and experience of interfaces and integration patterns (APIs, message queues, webhooks, SQL, etc