Senior Software Engineer, Urban Jungle

We're looking for an enthusiastic Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) to join our fast-growing Engineering team! You'll hit the ground running, getting up to speed with our tech stack quickly so you can start shipping valuable features within your first few weeks You'll start with where you have the most experience and we'll give you exposure to the rest of our services to build out your expertise You'll have a tangible impact from day one as you collaborate with our Product, Commercial, and Data teams to ensure we continue to build products that delight our customers You'll start by shipping high-impact features, then move onto larger, cross-functional projects - think product launches, partner integrations, and platform-wide improvements You'll keep growing your skillset across a wide range of technologies as you tackle meaningful, end-to-end challenges across our stack You'll bring your technical expertise to influence key decisions about how we design, build, and expand our growing portfolio of products and services You'll help shape how we scale the team - bringing your ideas to the table and having a real voice in how we grow

Urban Jungle was founded in 2016 by a team from both in and outside of the insurance industry. Jimmy Williams and Greg Smyth noticed that the insurance industry was moving at a really slow pace, hardly taking advantage of the available technology and often leaving customers behind, especially younger ones. Now Urban Jungle is the top rated home insurance provider in the UK. Modern insurers have inherited, from their 80s predecessors, a highly inefficient general approach to the industry: when launching a new system, only new customers are included in it, while old customers remain in the old system. Customer Service Operatives at really big insurers are fishing in different systems to find people's records and that does not favour productivity at all. The challenge with Urban Jungle's process is to build up the insurance experience from scratch taking advantage of the technology that has been developed in recent years, reducing costs and empowering customers. Special attention needs to be paid to the insurance product. The responsiveness to the way people's risks are changing over time is a key aspect that insurers should always bear in mind. Adapting the insurance product to ever-changing needs is definitely the main challenge for Urban Jungle and its competitors, and the best way to do it is to keep continuous and direct contact with customers. Regularly testing the current insurance offer and showing readiness when adapting the product to a new necessity is the real turning point and what Urban Jungle is working for.