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Please visit our careers site to find out more about working at Ki Job Details: Staff Software Engineer Full details of the job. Vacancy Name Vacancy Name Staff Software Engineer Employment Type Employment Type Permanent Location Location London Role Details Who are we? Look at the latest headlines and you will see something Ki insures. Think space shuttles, world tours, wind farms, and even footballers' legs. 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. What's the role? 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're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Engineering team. You will provide technical leadership for both delivery squads and the wider engineering organisation. Along with our engineering leadership, you'll champion engineering excellence and high standards of quality through an environment of continuous improvement. You will be hands-on, directly delivering new impactful software. You will be able to propose, design, and execute initiatives independently, leading colleagues to deliver on these goals. Principal Accountabilities: - Build robust and scalable software for business critical, web-based applications - Design, build, test, document and maintain API's and integrations - Develop new functionality in our core Kotlin based services, working in multi-disciplinary teams - Ensure quality control using industry standard techniques such as automated testing, pairing, and code review - Work with the Product team to understand end-user requirements and translate them into an effective technical solution - Document technical design and analysis work - Assess current system architecture and identify opportunities for growth and improvement - Build mock-ups or prototypes to explore and troubleshoot new initiatives - Explore new ideas and emerging technologies, develop prototypes quickly - Uphold and advance the wider engineering team's principles and ways of working - Promote a culture of continuous improvement, positively influence current ways of working, leading by example - Serve as a domain expert in many of Ki's core technologies - Mentor and coach colleagues in both engineering and business domain subjects towards building their own abilities and skills Opinionated regarding system architecture, able to suggest improvements and changes required to support delivery of new functionality, where required Required Skills and Experience: - Experience as a senior level engineer working across a modern web stack - Strong software engineering principles (SOLID, DRY, ER modelling) - Professional experience with a server-side language, ideally JVM based - Comfortable working with cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, familiar with standard logging and monitoring tools used to investigate issues - Experience with continuous integration, or ideally, continuous delivery - Strong familiarity with build tools (e.g. Maven) and version control tools (e.g. Git/Github) - Experience working in agile teams, following Scrum or Kanban, participating in regular ceremonies including stand-ups, planning, and retrospectives - Experience using project management and workflow tools (e.g. Jira) - Previous experience of software development in the financial markets, Fintech or Insurtech is preferable Our culture Inclusion & Diversity is at the heart of our business at Ki. We recognise that diversity in age, race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, physical ability, thought and social background bring richness to our working environment. No matter who you are, where you're from, how you think, or who you love, we believe you should be you. You'll get a highly competitive remuneration and benefits package. This is kept under constant review to make sure it stays relevant. We understand the power of saying thank you and take time to acknowledge and reward extraordinary effort by teams or individuals. If this sounds like a role and a culture that appeals to you, please apply.

Please visit our careers site to find out more about working at Ki Job Details: Senior Full Stack Engineer Full details of the job. Vacancy Name Vacancy Name Senior Full Stack Engineer Employment Type Employment Type Permanent Location Location London Role Details Who are we? Look at the latest headlines and you will see something Ki insures. Think space shuttles, world tours, wind farms, and even footballers' legs. 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. What's the role? 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're looking for a Senior Full-stack Engineer to join our Development team. Principal Accountabilities: • Build robust and scalable software for business critical, web-based applications • Build eye-catching, functional, efficient, and reusable web and mobile-based sites that drive these web applications • Design, build, test, document and maintain API's and integrations • Ensure quality control using industry standard techniques such as automated testing, pairing, and code review • Work with the Product team to understand end-user requirements and translate them into an effective technical solution • Document technical design and analysis work • Assess current system architecture and identify opportunities for growth and improvement • Build mock-ups or prototypes to explore and troubleshoot new initiatives • Work with the Product team and UX designers to review designs, implement new features, and ensure user experience is top level • Explore new ideas and emerging technologies, develop prototypes quickly • Uphold and advance the engineering team's principles and ways of working • Serve as a domain expert for one or more of Ki's core technologies • Mentor and coach colleagues in both engineering and business domain subjects Required Skills and Experience: • Experience as a mid-senior level engineer working across a modern web stack • Strong software engineering principles (SOLID, DRY, ER modelling) • Professional experience with a server-side language, ideally JVM based • Professional experience building web-based single page applications, using React/Typescript or an equivalent • Knowledge of front-end development, able to build rich user interfaces following a responsive design • HTML/CSS experience, including concepts like layout, specificity, cross browser compatibility, and accessibility • Comfortable working with cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, familiar with standard logging and monitoring tools used to investigate issues • Experience with continuous integration, or ideally, continuous delivery • Strong familiarity with build tools (e.g. Maven) and version control tools (e.g. Git/Github) • Experience working in agile teams, following Scrum or Kanban, participating in regular ceremonies including stand-ups, planning, and retrospectives • Experience using project management and workflow tools (e.g. Jira) • Previous experience of software development in the financial markets, Fintech or Insurtech is preferable Our culture Inclusion & Diversity is at the heart of our business at Ki. We recognise that diversity in age, race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, physical ability, thought and social background bring richness to our working environment. No matter who you are, where you're from, how you think, or who you love, we believe you should be you. You'll get a highly competitive remuneration and benefits package. This is kept under constant review to make sure it stays relevant. We understand the power of saying thank you and take time to acknowledge and reward extraordinary effort by teams or individuals.

Please visit our careers site to find out more about working at Ki. Full details of the job: Vacancy Name: Job Title Employment Type: Permanent Location: London Role Details Who are we? Ki is the biggest global insurance tech company you've never heard of, unless you've been looking to insure a satellite, wind farm or music festival recently. Having written over $877m in gross written premium in 2023, we've achieved significant growth since our beginnings in 2021. Our investors were excited about the fact we were revolutionising the way a 333-year-old industry was working. There are hardly any industries left that are mainly paper-based, but the specialty insurance market is one. Together with partners at Google and UCL, we developed Ki and created a platform that helps insurance brokers place risk in a fast and frictionless way. We're continuing to lead the digitisation of this market and we need more excellent minds to work with us to realise this goal and create more opportunities. Purpose of the Role You will work alongside the Underwriting Director for Casualty, taking primary responsibility for Financial and Professional Lines. You will be chiefly responsible for adherence to the agreed business plan and ultimately underwriting performance for this class of business. You will work with the Portfolio Management team to define and optimise annual plan strategy, reflective of market conditions. Alongside the Underwriting Director, you will set underwriting appetite, taking steps to ensure the KiDS portfolio aligns with this appetite to maintain a profitable portfolio. You will provide leadership and development guidance to directly reporting Underwriters and assist in strategic conversations with Broker partners when required to communicate underwriting appetite and rationale. You will work alongside the Algorithmic and Pricing teams as the subject matter expert to bring specialty product and market knowledge to bear in shaping underwriting, pricing, and distribution models. Finally, you will be accountable for providing insights for various committees including but not limited to the Portfolio Underwriting Committee, Underwriting Governance Committee, Performance vs Plan, Reserving Committee, and Major Loss Panel. Our Culture Inclusion & Diversity are at the heart of our business at Ki. We recognize that diversity in age, race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, physical ability, thought, and social background bring richness to our working environment. No matter who you are, where you're from, how you think, or who you love, we believe you should be yourself. You'll receive a highly competitive remuneration and benefits package, which is kept under constant review to ensure relevance. We understand the power of saying thank you and take time to acknowledge and reward extraordinary effort by teams or individuals. If this role and our culture appeal to you, we look forward to hearing from you.

Please visit our careers site to find out more about working at Ki Job Details: Senior Agile Delivery Manager Full details of the job. Vacancy Name: Senior Agile Delivery Manager Employment Type: Permanent Location: London Role Details Who are we? Look at the latest headlines and you will see something Ki insures. Think space shuttles, world tours, wind farms, and even footballers' legs. 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. What you will be working on We are recruiting for a Senior Agile Delivery Manager to join our team. In this role, you'll be shaping the future of algorithmic underwriting - helping our squads to deliver amazing product capabilities and experiences for our users. Bringing your experience of working across delivery management or technical project management, whilst leading multiple teams through the full product life cycle, you'll need to be experienced in agile frameworks and able to develop high-performing, cross-functional teams using a servant leadership approach. You will help our teams coordinate around challenging deadlines and releases, collaborating with different stakeholders from across our organisation. You'll need to be comfortable spinning plates and dealing with complex problems but also have a coaching mindset, helping our teams to help themselves and improve how we get stuff done, with the ability to tailor your style to both technical and non-technical audiences. Our teams work using different agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban, to deliver new features or enhancements to our partner brokers. This could be developments on our external API, a new experience in our broker platform for a new insurance product, or an enhancement to our algorithm. Our culture Inclusion & Diversity is at the heart of our business at Ki. We recognise that diversity in age, race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, physical ability, thought, and social background bring richness to our working environment. No matter who you are, where you're from, how you think, or who you love, we believe you should be you. You'll get a highly competitive remuneration and benefits package. This is kept under constant review to make sure it stays relevant. We understand the power of saying thank you and take time to acknowledge and reward extraordinary effort by teams or individuals.

Please visit our careers site to find out more about working at Ki Job Details: Staff Security Operations Engineer Full details of the job. Vacancy Name: Staff Security Operations Engineer Employment Type: Permanent Location: London Role Details Who are we? Look at the latest headlines and you will see something Ki insures. Think space shuttles, world tours, wind farms, and even footballers' legs. 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. What you will be working on We're looking for a Staff Security Operations Engineer to lead the implementation and continuous evolution of Security Operations at Ki. This is a high-impact technical leadership role, focused on building a world-class capability that actively defends against emerging threats while enabling our product and platform to scale securely. You'll define and deliver our SOC strategy, including operational tooling, automation pipelines, and response workflows-ensuring Ki remains resilient, compliant, and 'incident ready'. Working closely with Product and Technology teams, you'll drive a DevSecOps agenda that embeds security throughout the development lifecycle, while partnering with our external security service providers to optimise detection and response capabilities. This role demands a deep engineering mindset and an appetite for innovation. You'll design and implement automated detection and response pipelines, integrate advanced threat intelligence, and lead the use of behavioural analytics and attack simulation across our environment. Your technical breadth will span modern cloud-native stacks (Azure, GCP), serverless and containerised architectures, and a wide range of security tooling including DLP, SIEM, CNAPP, and XDR, and tools such as Wiz, Darktrace, Microsoft Defender, Intune, and Sentinel. You will also bring hands-on experience in threat hunting, log analysis, red/blue team operations, and incident response coordination-building tooling and processes that respond to real-world threats at scale. You will report directly into the CISO, with a clear mandate to build the Security Operations function, manage external providers, and evolve our capabilities into a high-performing unit. This role also offers the opportunity to shape Ki's broader view of cyber risk-supporting collaboration with our underwriting teams and exploring innovative partnerships that enhance our product and client value. If you're a cloud-focused, creative technologist who thrives at the intersection of security engineering and innovation, and you're ready to build and lead something exceptional, we'd love to hear from you. Our culture Inclusion & Diversity is at the heart of our business at Ki. We recognise that diversity in age, race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, physical ability, thought, and social background bring richness to our working environment. No matter who you are, where you're from, how you think, or who you love, we believe you should be you. You'll get a highly competitive remuneration and benefits package. This is kept under constant review to make sure it stays relevant. We understand the power of saying thank you and take time to acknowledge and reward extraordinary effort by teams or individuals.

Please visit our careers site to find out more about working at Ki. Vacancy Name Senior UX Designer Employment Type Permanent Location London Role Details Who are we? Look at the latest headlines and you will see something Ki insures. Think space shuttles, world tours, wind farms, and even footballers' legs. 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. We're looking for a specialist, full stack, Senior Designer who will work closely with Product Management teams on a variety of projects. You'll have extensive experience creating an engaging user experience, UI elements, and service design for a variety of complex B2B, ideally fintech, applications, for both internal teams and external customers. Principal Accountabilities Product design excellence: You'll be experienced working in all levels of the design stack from helping strategize, agreeing a briefing, working on the IA, UX, UI and liaising with brand inputs. Translate business and user goals into a coherent UX strategy: Working alongside design research teams to include Voice of Customer in everything we do. Looking for gaps in VOC insight, advocating for the user at all times. B2B Service Design: Treating each problem channel-agnostically, understanding the myriad channels we can engage on and working with PMs to develop the right strategy. Data Literacy and Visualisation: You'll have worked on applications that help users understand large volumes of data, separating the signal from the noise, knowing when to deploy the right tools, visualisations and interfaces. Establish and hold the quality bar: Through intentional practice, emotional intelligence, senior presence, high energy and formidable attention to detail you will re-establish and own the design quality of our products. Work with stakeholders: Be credible with our SME teams. Understand our unique position in the industry. Drive the discussion, with stakeholders across the business, of which capabilities will most meaningfully move the business towards its goals. Ensure that this strategy dovetails with the broader algorithm, underwriting, and technology strategic direction. Required Skills and Experience You're commercially-minded and excited by the impact design has on B2B products with very high value outcomes. You possess multiple examples of telling stories with data design work that have had a measurable outcome for the business. You naturally bridge gaps across products and teams to help shape end to end experience. You've experienced failure and learned from it. You're innately curious. You're comfortable with ambiguity and are laser-focused on finding solutions to genuine problems. You're an excellent communicator and have experience working with senior stakeholders. You're proactive, pragmatic, self-motivated, and able to use your initiative. Experience and understanding of specialty insurance, and how portfolios of business are managed, is a bonus. Join us to make a significant impact, drive innovation, and help shape the future of our digital workplace. Our culture Inclusion & Diversity is at the heart of our business at Ki. We recognise that diversity in age, race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, physical ability, thought and social background bring richness to our working environment. No matter who you are, where you're from, how you think, or who you love, we believe you should be you. You'll get a highly competitive remuneration and benefits package. This is kept under constant review to make sure it stays relevant. We understand the power of saying thank you and take time to acknowledge and reward extraordinary effort by teams or individuals.

Role Details We are looking for a Senior FP&A Manager. Who are we? Ki is the biggest global insurance tech company you've never heard of, unless you've been looking to insure a satellite, wind farm or music festival recently. Having written over $877m in gross written premium in 2023, we've achieved significant growth since our beginnings in 2021. Our investors were excited about the fact we were revolutionising the way a 333 year-old industry was working. There are hardly any industries left that are mainly paper based, but the specialty insurance market is one. Together with partners at Google and UCL we developed Ki and created a platform that helps insurance brokers place risk in a fast and frictionless way. We're continuing to lead the charge on the digitisation of this market and we need more excellent minds to work with us to realise this goal and create more opportunities. The day to day The FP&A and Business Partnering Team is part of the rapidly growing Finance team within Ki. We are building a finance function like no other in the insurance industry, focussed on driving business insight, supporting strategic planning, and contributing to future initiatives as set out by the Ki EMC. You'll ensure the timely and accurate delivery of all aspects of financial planning & reporting, performance management, management reporting and investor communications across Ki Financial Limited, including Syndicate 1618, Ki Digital Services Ltd and all the Ki Group corporate structures. You'll encompass the delivery of timely and insightful analysis of the drivers behind each component of Ki's performance. The role will also encompass planning for all Ki entities, working with senior stakeholders and investors to agree compelling and achievable plans for new and existing operating structures. In this role, you'll have responsibility for the delivery of KFL (and subsidiary entity) P&Ls and Balance sheets, ensuring complete accuracy. About you Ideally, you'll be a Qualified Accountant or Actuary with some excellent London Market experience, gained from working within a FP&A/Business Partnering role. The role requires a commercial & speciality insurance background with expertise of Lloyd's Syndicates, MGAs and Cover holders. You'll have solid experience of business performance management disciplines, for example planning, budgeting, forecasting, balanced business scorecards and KPI reporting. You'll be a highly numerate individual with financial modelling capability, who also has the ability to establish effective working relationships across the business. Being an experienced people manager with excellent communication skills, you'll have the opportunity to demonstrate using your initiative whilst also being involved in a number of projects at any time. Our culture This opportunity comes along with a competitive salary, 27 days annual leave, optional private medical insurance, on target bonus and strong employer's contributory pension, plus many more benefits. We also operate in a hybrid working capacity meaning you can collaborate in the London office as well as enjoy the ability to work from home. Inclusion & Diversity is at the heart of our business at Ki. We recognise that diversity in age, race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, physical ability, thought and social background bring richness to our working environment. No matter who you are, where you're from, how you think, or who you love, we believe you should be you. You'll get a highly competitive remuneration and benefits package. This is kept under constant review to make sure it stays relevant. We understand the power of saying thank you and take time to acknowledge and reward extraordinary effort by teams or individuals. If this sounds like a role and a culture that appeals to you, let us know. Apply now!

Who are we? Look at the latest headlines and you will see something Ki insures. Think space shuttles, world tours, wind farms, and even footballers' legs. 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. Purpose of the Role As Head of Commercial Pricing, you will play a fundamental role in the actuarial team, enhancing Ki's commercial and strategic approach using creative actuarial insight across pricing, planning, partner relationships and strategic commercial projects. As a member of the Actuarial Leadership Team, you will work closely with the Actuarial Director to manage and develop the Pricing team. We are looking for an experienced senior actuary to lead and shape the newly created Commercial Pricing team, part of the wider Ki Actuarial Team, formed in 2024 as part of Ki becoming a standalone entity (from Brit) within Fairfax Group. This role will take ownership of all pricing activity of Ki's insurance and reinsurance portfolio outside of the Algorithm; a growing book of Property, Speciality and Casualty Insurance facilities and Casualty Treaty business. In addition to core pricing work of case pricing and model development, the wider ambition for this role includes building relationships with underwriters and senior management, feeding into risk selection decisions and strategic direction, and ultimately being a key business partner to the underwriting, reserving, Portfolio Management and Algorithmic Underwriting teams. If you are a creative thinker eager to use innovative techniques, data science and analysis to enhance commercial insight for the business, this could be the role for you. Our culture Inclusion & Diversity is at the heart of our business at Ki. We recognise that diversity in age, race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, physical ability, thought and social background bring richness to our working environment. No matter who you are, where you're from, how you think, or who you love, we believe you should be you. You'll get a highly competitive remuneration and benefits package. This is kept under constant review to make sure it stays relevant. We understand the power of saying thank you and take time to acknowledge and reward extraordinary effort by teams or individuals. If this sounds like a role and a culture that appeals to you, let us know.