Systems Engineer, Zego
£60-75k
Commercial motor insurance provider
Job no longer available
Commercial motor insurance provider
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
£60-75k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide businesses and people with insurance they control, saving them both time and money.
Role
Who you are
- You will contribute to shaping the Zego Hosting Platform used by our engineers to build the next generation of products and services
- You will work to improve our delivery processes (CI/CD pipelines) and ensure our monitoring systems are efficient and user friendly
- You will share learnings internally and externally through guilds, meet-ups and conferences
- You will contribute to code reviews following coding standards
What the job involves
- You will be part of the team ultimately responsible for the uptime of the Zego Hosting Platform and services
- You will collaborate closely with Product Engineers to help build secure, scalable and reliable products and services
- You will champion Agile methodologies and metrics to support the team in driving effective and concise delivery
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Company benefits
- Truly flexible approach to work, enabling Zegons to manage their work-life balance
- £1,000 contribution towards your travel to the office or learning and development
- Share options enabling all Zegons to become shareholders
- £1,000 contribution towards your travel to the office or learning and development
- Company-paid private medical insurance, including dental & optical cover
- Company-paid life insurance and income protection insurance
- Company pension scheme
- A wide range of perks and discounts through PerkBox
- Up to 15 company-paid coaching or therapy sessions a year
- Cycle to Work scheme
- 25 days annual leave (excl. bank holidays) with the opportunity to buy up by 5 additional days
- Employee Assistance Programme offering 24/7 confidential advice line for health, legal & bereavement support (and loads more)
- Enhanced family leave, with 6 months fully paid maternity leave and 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
- Up to 3 months sabbatical leave with one month paid after 3 years of service
- Trans and non-binary policy including additional paid leave for transitioning medical treatment
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2021
$150m
SERIES C
Jun 2019
$42m
SERIES B
Total funding: $210.2m
Our take
Zego was early to see the trend towards the gig economy. It was one of the first companies to offer unique insurance to workers in the space (their first products were focused on transport-related insurance for food delivery workers).
The traditional rigid model of insurance is no longer fit for purpose. The world is becoming more urbanised, and the vehicle economy in particular is moving away from traditional ownership to shared use.
Success in this space requires strong partnerships with big underwriters, so there's defensibility for the companies that crack it. Zego is off to a good start here as one of the first movers, having struck up partnerships with huge underwriters like RSA.
Zego is the first insurtech company in the UK to be awarded a licence to underwrite its own insurance products. This allows them to provide innovative policies, alongside working with their insurer partners.
The company is aiming big. The CEO recently said they expect to be bigger than Allianz, the $100bn insurance giant, by 2030. They launched in Spain, France and Belgium in 2019 and are planning further expansion across Europe in 2020.
In September 2019, Zego sold more than 100 million hours of flexible insurance policies - equivalent to 250m pizza deliveries. This shows the huge presence they now have in the market.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle