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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023) on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @11:19AM (#34984062)
hx | Solutions Architects | Hybrid (London, UK) | Full time

We're hx, a London-based insurtech that’s disrupting the archaic insurance industry with our awesome SaaS data modelling platform, Renew. We were founded in 2017, raised an $18m Series A in 2021, and hit c100 employees at the end of 2022. We’re proud to be listed on the Sonr Insurtech 100, FinTech Global Insurtech 100, the InsurTech Insights Future 50, the Oxbow Partners Insurtech Impact 25, and the Otta Rocket List.

I'm looking for smart and kind Solutions Architects to join our nascent Field Engineering team.

The role:

- Works across our Sales and Customer journeys, using technical credibility to instil confidence in our prospects, helping them to become customers – and the SA their trusted advisor

- Helps us on our mission to disrupt the insurance industry, unlocking its massive $16bn Total Addressable Market

- Will be be an early member of the team (reporting directly me) with lots of scope to influence the team as we grow – as well as an unrivalled opportunity to progress their career

- Drives innovation by building cool integrations with services like Snowflake, Databricks and more

The job:

- Salary: to £100,000 + equity

- Location: London (hybrid)

- Benefits: £5k L+D budget, comprehensive health insurance, on-site gym/classes, usual socials/hackathons/games nights/food/etc, Udemy, Juno, Spectrum.Life

More info: https://apply.workable.com/hyperexponential/j/36078597F9/ or via email (in my profile)

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021) on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @05:35AM (#27035584)
hyperexponential (hx) | Head of Backend Engineering + Head of Frontend Engineering | London/Remote, UK | Full-time

Hurricanes. Advanced mathematics. Satellite launches. Hard tech. Concert tours. Smart people. …Telegraph poles.

What do these have in common? hyperexponential! The most interesting insurtech you haven't yet heard of. Our platform helps our customers make smarter decisions faster by making it easy for them to build, iterate and distribute complex mathematical models that analyse small, sparse and fragmented datasets in the cloud.

We're looking for two experienced Heads of Engineering to lead our frontend and backend capabilities respectively. These are two of the most influential roles we'll ever hire onto the team, and you'll have significant freedom over the people, tech and methods you apply to solve some truly Hard engineering challenges.

- Head of Frontend Engineering (React/TypeScript): https://hyperexponential.teamtailor.com/jobs/1093444-head-of...

- Head of Backend Engineering (Kotlin [or Java/Rust/Scala/etc]): https://hyperexponential.teamtailor.com/jobs/1093438-head-of...

More info: https://hx.careers/ or email me directly: tom.clark at hyperexponential dot com

Tom (CTO @ hx)

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021) on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:50AM (#26697062)
hyperexponential (hx) | Head of Backend Engineering + Head of Frontend Engineering | London/Remote, UK | Full-time

Hurricanes. Advanced mathematics. Satellite launches. Hard tech. Concert tours. Smart people. …Telegraph poles.

What do these have in common? hyperexponential! The most interesting insurtech you haven't yet heard of. Our platform helps our customers make smarter decisions faster by making it easy for them to build, iterate and distribute complex mathematical models that analyse small, sparse and fragmented datasets in the cloud.

We're looking for two experienced Heads of Engineering to lead our frontend and backend capabilities respectively. These are two of the most influential roles we'll ever hire onto the team, and you'll have significant freedom over the people, tech and methods you apply to solve some truly Hard engineering challenges.

- Head of Frontend Engineering (React/TypeScript): https://hyperexponential.teamtailor.com/jobs/1093444-head-of...

- Head of Backend Engineering (Kotlin [or Java/Rust/Scala/etc]): https://hyperexponential.teamtailor.com/jobs/1093438-head-of...

More info: https://hx.careers/ or email me directly: tom.clark at hyperexponential dot com

Tom (CTO @ hx)

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021) on Monday March 01, 2021 @11:19AM (#26304287)
hyperexponential (hx) | Head of (Back|Front)end Engineering | London/Remote (UK) | Full-time

Hurricanes. Advanced mathematics. Satellite launches. Hard tech. Concert tours. Smart people. …Telegraph poles.

What do these have in common? Hyperexponential! The most interesting tech company you haven't yet heard of. Our platform helps our customers make smarter decisions faster by making it easy for them to build, iterate and distribute complex mathematical models that analyse small, sparse and fragmented datasets in the cloud.

We're looking for two experienced Heads of Engineering to lead our frontend and backend capabilities respectively. These are two of the most influential roles we'll ever hire onto the team, and you'll have significant freedom over the people, tech and methods you apply to solve some truly Hard engineering challenges.

- Head of Frontend Engineering (React/TypeScript): https://hyperexponential.teamtailor.com/jobs/1093444-head-of...

- Head of Backend Engineering (Kotlin [or Java/Rust/Scala/etc]): https://hyperexponential.teamtailor.com/jobs/1093438-head-of...

More info: https://hx.careers/ or email me directly: tom.clark at hyperexponential dot com

Tom (CTO @ hx)

Re:How does a gas pump know to shut itself off? (1981) on Saturday October 10, 2020 @05:58PM (#24742171)
SRS light is for the Supplementary Restraint System (airbags and seatbelt pretensioners) so unlikely to be related to the filter. Might trip the MIL/Check engine light though!
The Omega Tau podcast often does similarly detailed examinations of planes (as well as almost anything and everything else): https://pca.st/episode/05c91470-2f6f-0135-52f9-452518e2d253)
This article describes the scale of the operations behind some of the superhosts on Airbnb - almost unbelievable, but the market will provide I guess! https://www.wired.co.uk/article/airbnb-scam-london
I'm curious - do you target the small percentage of businesses that truly grok the benefits of a platform that advanced already, or do you try to convince laggards to catch up?
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2020) on Monday March 02, 2020 @06:01PM (#22470026)
Location: London, UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: devops, cloud, aws, culture, delivery, alignment, recruitment, retention, ways of working, development, strategy, communication, evangelism, oversight, sourcing, operations, architecture, planning, budgeting

Résumé/CV: http://bit.ly/2utNSRb

Email: (see profile)

Hi, I'm Tom. I'm a smart and kind engineering leader who enjoys operating at the intersection of tech, product and delivery. My speciality is building happy, high performing teams that deliver quality work.

I was previously at ITV where I created the platform which hosts their most important products and services, from the ITV Hub (30M+ users) to airtime and content sales (£3bn+ revenue). I also recruited the best team in the universe to develop it.

Prior to that I've held platform engineering and software development roles with the BBC, Global Radio and multiple startups.

I'm currently looking for a CTO, VP Engineering or Director of Engineering position at a series A+ startup/scaleup/SME

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2020) on Saturday February 08, 2020 @10:00AM (#22276021)
Location: London, UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: devops, cloud, aws, culture, delivery, alignment, recruitment, retention, ways of working, development, strategy, communication, evangelism, oversight, sourcing, operations, architecture, planning, budgeting

Résumé/CV: http://bit.ly/2utNSRb

Email: (see profile)

Hi, I'm Tom. I'm a smart and kind engineering leader who enjoys operating at the intersection of tech, product and delivery. My speciality is building happy, high performing teams that deliver quality work.

I was previously at ITV where I created the platform which hosts their most important products and services, from the ITV Hub (30M+ users) to airtime and content sales (£3bn+ revenue). I also recruited the best team in the universe to develop it.

Prior to that I've held platform engineering and software development roles with the BBC, Global Radio and multiple startups.

I'm currently looking for a CTO, VP Engineering or Director of Engineering position at a series A+ startup or SME.

Re:Battle Chess on Sunday November 24, 2019 @06:23PM (#21624233)
I have a reference to this in my CV ("watching out for brown M&Ms" in the "Outside of work" section). So far nobody has asked about it
Re:The Portuguese Bank Note Crisis of 1925 on Friday August 30, 2019 @11:05PM (#20844411)
Ridiculous History covered this recently: https://player.fm/series/series-2148552/the-portuguese-bank-...

Crazy how much he got away with, for so long, effectively just on confidence and skill.

Re:Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki on Saturday March 23, 2019 @04:43AM (#19469624)
Re:UK scientists build world’s first quantum compass on Sunday November 11, 2018 @10:11AM (#18426702)
http://inkl.com is pretty much that
Does anyone know of something similar for architecture diagrams?

I've tried PlantUML's component mode (http://plantuml.com/component-diagram) but wondered whether there were any other options out there, as being able to write maintain source-controlled diagrams as code/text would make me very happy!

Re:The Cuttlefish, a Master of Camouflage, Reveals a New Trick on Thursday February 15, 2018 @08:49PM (#16389311)
That was in the recent (and incredible) Blue Planet II from the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4tfgmTgfJHlJpvvMnRl...
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016) on Monday February 01, 2016 @05:55PM (#11016302)
ITV plc | Platform Engineer(s) | London, UK (ONSITE)

ITV are building a new platform to host all of our applications - internal and external. Whether it’s the system that sells the adverts in Corrie, pays Ant & Dec, schedules Emmerdale for broadcast or gets TOWIE on to the ITV Hub, it’ll live here and you can help build it.

As a Platform Engineer you’ll be embedded in a team responsible for a product end-to-end. Working closely with the developers, testers, product owners and scrum masters you’ll make sure the environments are ticking over nicely, polish the build pipeline and make sure everything’s looking good in production.

You’ll be jointly responsible for the quality of everything the team produces - if you build it, you run it. One day you’ll be helping deploy a new microservice, the next watching it handle millions of requests during the X Factor final. The coffee’s not bad, either.

Our ethos is simple: automate, automate, automate. We believe in using the right tool for the job - right now we’re using things like AWS, puppet, docker, jenkins, sensu, redis, terraform, centos, rabbitmq, nginx, varnish, haproxy, trello, github and slack - but we’re always keeping an eye on the future and experimenting with new tech. We want our team to be two things: ‘smart’ and ‘kind’. If that’s you and this sounds like fun then I’d like to hear from you - email in my profile.

Tom

What we offer:

  * Great salary
  * Five weeks holiday (plus national holidays)
  * Annual bonus
  * Training + conferences
  * SAYE scheme (discounted shares)
  * Life cover (4x salary)
  * Generous pension (matches your contribution + 3%)
  * ‘Relish’ scheme: gym, extra holiday, cycle to work, childcare vouchers, private healthcare
  * Volunteer days
  * Further education sponsorship
  * Discounts at highstreet + online retailers
  * Tickets to shows
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015) on Friday October 02, 2015 @07:16AM (#10317787)
ITV plc | Platform Engineer(s) | London, UK (ONSITE)

ITV are building a new platform to host all of our applications - internal and external. Whether it’s the system that sells the adverts in Corrie, pays Ant & Dec, schedules Emmerdale for broadcast or gets TOWIE on to the ITV Player, it’ll live here and you can help build it.

As a Platform Engineer you’ll be embedded in a team responsible for a product end-to-end. Working closely with the developers, testers, product owners and scrum masters you’ll make sure the environments are ticking over nicely, polish the build pipeline and make sure everything’s looking good in production.

You’ll be jointly responsible for the quality of everything the team produces - if you build it, you run it. One day you’ll be helping deploy a new microservice, the next watching it handle millions of requests during the X Factor final. The coffee’s not bad, either.

Our ethos is simple: automate, automate, automate. We believe in using the right tool for the job - right now we’re using things like AWS, puppet, docker, jenkins, sensu, redis, terraform, centos, rabbitmq, nginx, varnish, haproxy, trello, github, slack and openstack - but we’re always keeping an eye on the future and experimenting with new tech. We want our team to be two things: ‘smart’ and ‘kind’. If that’s you and this sounds like fun then I’d like to hear from you - email in my profile.

Tom

What we offer:

* Great salary

* Five weeks holiday (plus national holidays)

* Annual bonus

* Training + conferences

* SAYE scheme (discounted shares)

* Life cover (4x salary)

* Generous pension (matches your contribution + 3%)

* ‘Relish’ scheme: gym, extra holiday, cycle to work, childcare vouchers, private healthcare

* Volunteer days

* Further education sponsorship

* Discounts at highstreet + online retailers

* Tickets to shows

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015) on Thursday June 04, 2015 @10:32AM (#9659492)
Whoops! Apologies - added now ([email protected])
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015) on Monday June 01, 2015 @05:36PM (#9642335)
ITV plc / Platform Engineer(s) / London, UK / Onsite (+wfh)

ITV are building a new platform to host all of our applications - internal and external. Whether it’s the system that sells the adverts for Corrie, pays Ant & Dec, schedules Emmerdale for broadcast or gets TOWIE on to the ITV Player, it’ll live here and you can help build it.

As a Platform Engineer you’ll be a part of the team responsible for a product end-to-end. Working closely with the developers, testers, product owners and scrum masters you’ll make sure the environments are ticking over nicely, polish the build pipeline and make sure everything’s looking good in production.

You’ll be jointly responsible for the quality of everything the team produces - if you build it, you run it. One day you might be helping design a new microservice, the next watching your system handle millions of requests during the X Factor final. The coffee’s pretty good too.

Our ethos is simple: Automate, automate, automate. We believe in using the right tool for the job - right now we’re using things like AWS, docker, jenkins, sensu, redis, terraform, centos, rabbitmq, nginx, varnish, haproxy, trello, github, slack and openstack - but we’re always keeping an eye on the future and experimenting with new tech.

We want our team to be two things: ‘smart’ and ‘kind’. If that’s you and this sounds like fun then please get in touch - email + linkedin in my profile.

Tom

What we offer:

* Great salary

* Five weeks holiday (plus national holidays)

* Annual bonus

* Training + conferences

* SAYE scheme (discounted shares)

* Life cover (4x salary)

* Generous pension (matches your contribution + 3%)

* ‘Relish’ scheme: gym, extra holiday, cycle to work, childcare vouchers, private healthcare

* Volunteer days

* Further education sponsorship

* Discounts at highstreet + online retailers

* Tickets to shows