Ever thought the premium you
pay for your car insurance is opaque and unfair? Well, that’s because it
is. At Cuvva we have fixed this by allowing you to insure yourself on a
car for as little as an hour, via an app. No more meerkat toys, no more
singing tenors, we have cut out all the middlemen and built our own
insurance platform from scratch. We're using it to change the way people
buy and use cover, and the way they think about getting from A-to-B.
It's all about providing insurance that fits.
As a tech-driven
company, we are changing the way people engage with their insurance
company, the way they buy insurance, and the way they think about
borrowing a car.
Why Cuvva?
We're
a fintech startup with significant traction, writing 20,000 temporary
car insurance policies per month (and sustaining 30% Month on Month
growth). We’re seed-funded (£2.1m to date) and a Techstars alum.
Hundreds of thousands of people have downloaded the Cuvva app to insure
themselves for the short and long term.
We started off with a
simple proposition: car insurance for as little as one hour (up to 28
days) and we now have a subscription product that separates car
ownership from driving. We are also looking to expand into different
markets next year.
We are looking for a talented and motivated
senior android engineer who will raise our game and keep us on top. We
therefore have a generous share option scheme as we believe that
everyone within the company should share in the success they help build.
The Role
We
are looking for an experienced Android engineer who will lay the
foundations for the next couple of years of the user-facing side of
Cuvva’s platform. You will have experience building complex apps in a
modular fashion with elegance and simplicity, while leading other
engineers at the same time. You care deeply about building rock-solid
infrastructure for the long term, with a track record of delivering
solutions which support your team and product.
Cuvva as seen by
our customers will be created and owned by you, managing the delivery of
our user experience end-to-end. You will also regularly prototype new
concepts and research new technology, with a view to incorporating it
into our long term plans. You will put practices and infrastructure into
place which will support and lead your team as it grows.
You will be responsible for:
- Developing practices and procedures for our use of Android platforms
- Laying the foundations for a codebase which will be in production for multiple years
- Bringing our new design concepts to realisation (let us know if you’d like a peek!)
- Collaborating with our platform team to spec out API requirements
- Working with our team to develop their skills
- Eventually building out a team of your own
- Helping customers and fixing any problems they have (everyone at Cuvva helps out with support)
Requirements
- A fiercely independent and self-driven approach
- 5+ years of leading mobile engineering at high-scale companies
- Played with Android since its early days
- Experience dealing with adapting tightly defined designs for responsive display
- More ideas than you know what to do with
- A strong understanding of tech startups and what it means to work in this environment
- We
are a small team so it is important that the successful candidate is
not only technically highly competent, but also a great cultural fit!
N.B. You must have permission to work in the UK
Benefits
As
well as a competitive salary (£50-70k, dependent on experience) and
equity based remuneration, benefits of working at Cuvva include working
in our offices in Shoreditch and of course significant savings on your
car insurance.
