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Staff Product Engineer

hyperexponential
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Hybrid · London, United Kingdom
Experience
Lead / principal · Not stated

Level inferred from job title

Job description

Product Engineer (Level 4) at hyperexponential, working in small pods to take customer problems from discovery to production on an AI-powered insurance pricing and underwriting platform. The role is deliberately AI-native, with engineers directing AI agents and owning outcomes end-to-end.

At a glance

Employment
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid · London, United Kingdom
Languages
English

What you'll do

  • Taking a customer problem from discovery to production inside a pod, getting close to customers yourself, framing the problem, and shipping in small increments guided by real customer signal rather than internal opinion.
  • Directing AI agents to draft implementation, tests, and migrations, then reviewing, integrating, and hardening that work.
  • Designing and delivering robust production systems where correctness, performance, and resource efficiency matter, with the tests and observability that make complex behaviour safe to evolve.
  • Working across the codebase wherever the problem leads, including areas your pod doesn't steward, with stewards looped in proportionate to the risk.
  • Moving between pods, problems, and streams as priorities change, ramping fast on unfamiliar domains and leaving what you built running well behind you.
  • Taking full accountability for outcomes rather than just your code changes: raising risks early, and deciding rather than escalating.

What we're looking for

  • Built and shipped production systems end-to-end, from design through rollout, monitoring, and iteration, in settings where correctness, performance, and resource efficiency mattered.
  • Designed testing and observability that made complex behaviour understandable, debuggable, and safe to evolve.
  • Worked effectively in a polyglot environment, choosing the right tool for the problem and picking up unfamiliar languages, domains, and codebases fast.
  • Strong systems experience, for example in Rust, C/C++, or Python.
  • Shipped work outside your strongest layer of the stack when the problem needed it, picking up the front end, the data layer, or the infrastructure.
  • Used AI tools as a serious part of how you build, with the judgement to direct, review, and stand behind what they produce.
  • Carried product and design judgement into your engineering work, shaping the solution rather than only implementing a spec and making sensible calls under ambiguity.
  • Owned outcomes beyond your immediate task, taking decisions rather than escalating them.
  • At Level 4: set technical direction on a hard problem other engineers built on, and been judged on whether you made them faster and safer rather than on the size of your team.
  • At Level 4: held a quality bar across other people's work without becoming the gate they wait on.
  • At Level 4: led cross-cutting or decoupling work that teams adopted because it was the best path, not because it was mandated.

Benefits

  • £5,000 training and conference budget for individual and group development.
  • 25 days of holiday plus 8 bank holidays (33 days total).
  • Company pension scheme via Penfold.
  • Mental health support and therapy via Spectrum.life.
  • Individual wellbeing allowance via Juno.
  • Private healthcare insurance through AXA.
  • Income protection and Life Insurance.
  • Cycle to Work Scheme.
  • Top-spec equipment (laptop, screens, adjustable desks, etc.).
  • Regular remote and in-person hackathons, lunch and learns, socials, and game nights.
  • Team breakfasts and lunches, snacks, drinks fridge, and a fun office at The Ministry.
  • Exceptional opportunities for personal development and growth.

How to get hired

  1. 1Initial chat with our Talent team
  2. 2Lead Hirer Interview
  3. 3Live AI Skills Assessment
  4. 4Values Interview with the CPTO
  5. 5Meet the CEO

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About hyperexponential

The AI-powered platform that enables the world's most critical decisions in a $7 trillion industry

hyperexponential (hx) builds an AI-powered platform for insurance pricing and underwriting decisions, bringing together data, AI, and human expertise. Backed by a16z, Highland Europe, and Battery Ventures, it is trusted by nearly 50 of the world's largest insurers, with zero churn and billions in premiums flowing through hx.

Mission

To give insurers the fastest path from submission to decision - helping them move faster, act smarter, and take on more risk with confidence.

Key facts

  • Backed by a16z, Highland Europe, and Battery Ventures
  • Trusted by nearly 50 of the world's largest insurers
  • Zero churn and billions in premiums flowing through hx
  • Building the world's first domain-specific AI peer programmer for insurance
  • Office at The Ministry in London

Partners & customers

a16zHighland EuropeBattery Ventures