Junior Engineer

About the opportunity

We’re Superscript, an insurtech on a mission to make business insurance as simple and pain-free as possible for our customers.

We’re looking for aspiring engineers to join us on our mission as part of our passionate tech team. If you’ve recently done a bootcamp, made a career change or been self-teaching all things software development then we want to help you spring into a career in tech.

We’re enthusiastic about teaching and learning from each other within the tech team at Superscript, all whilst solving technical complex problems unique to the insurance industry.

About you:

Aspiring software engineer / developer
Monumental passion for learning and growing into the best engineer you can be
Great problem solving skills
Eagerness to learn and own the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC)
Unafraid to jump into different languages and frameworks
Constantly curious
Love to contribute to open source projects or play around with side projects for fun
Ideally have a bachelor’s degree (Dutch: HBO+, does not have to be technical or tech-related)

How you can expect to grow:

Continuously learn in a collaborative way
Become an engineer who can work independently but values the power of teamwork
Understand the inner workings of balancing technical excellence and business direction
Pick up how to efficiently create and deliver customer friendly features
Mature your coding style and technical opinions
Begin to master our tech stack which is PHP with Laravel, Vue.js, PostgreSQL
Grasp concepts such as Event Sourcing and Domain Driven Design (DDD)
Soak up knowledge from other engineers through pair programming

In return, we offer you:

A salary of €30,000 to €35,000+ annually, including 8% holiday pay
25 days holiday
Hybrid way of working with Monday and Thursday in the Rotterdam office
Fantastic Rotterdam location in CIC (right next to Rotterdam Centraal)
NS Business Card
Health insurance contribution of €60 per month (tax free)
Great pension
Full access to Spill, our mental health platform
Cycle to work scheme
Fun, modern and informal office environment with regular team social events

About Superscript

Insurance should be a smooth ride, not a hop, skip and a jump. That's where we come in.

We’re Superscript, an insurance broker for small businesses, sole-traders, landlords and high-growth tech firms. As the first UK-based insurtech to become a Lloyd’s of London broker, we offer advisory and broking services, alongside a fully self-serve online platform.

Our proprietary machine-learning technology and unique multi-carrier model streamlines service and delivery – regardless of risk complexity, geography or industry.