Frontend Engineer

About Artificial

Help shape the future of specialty insurance

At Artificial, we’re building the next generation of technology for the specialty (re)insurance market. Our mission is to transform how brokers and carriers operate in complex markets by removing operational barriers and enabling smarter, faster decision-making.

We use modern technology to solve real challenges for some of the world’s leading brokers and insurers. By automating the repetitive and structuring the complex, we help our partners unlock new opportunities for innovation and growth.

You’ll be joining a collaborative team that values curiosity, ownership, and continuous learning. We work in an environment where ideas are heard, support is built-in, and outcomes matter. Everyone here has the chance to make a tangible impact on our products, our customers, and the industry.

In 2024, we raised £8M in Series A+ funding led by Augmentum Fintech, with continued support from MS&AD Ventures and FOMCAP IV. It’s an exciting time to join us as we scale our impact in London and beyond.

If you're looking to do meaningful work that’s already changing the industry for the better, we’d love to hear from you.

About the team

👋 Here are a few notes from me ( Jon , VP Design) about why you should consider joining the Design Engineering / Frontend team at Artificial:

• A world-class frontend team: There are 5 of us on the team (3 Design Engineers, 1 Lead Frontend Engineer, and me). We all have a hybrid design/product/engineering background and 10+ years of experience. I think we are pretty good at what we do.
• You will get to ship fast : We have direct responsibility for the end-to-end user experience on our platform’s (React) frontend. You'll be able to jump in and fix problems (safely) without wading through layers of bureaucracy and procedure.
• Remote, flexible, async first: Although the company HQ is in London, we’ve built our team to be remote first, with a heavy emphasis on creating space for deep, uninterrupted work and rigorous thinking.
• Cutting-edge technology; real-world customers: Our underlying backend technology is genuinely innovative and is actively used by multiple global insurance companies. We’ve been around for a while and have a strong reputation in the insurance space.

I am really excited about the potential of this business, team, and technology. We have no shortage of challenging frontend problems to solve, but we're in the perfect place to do so.

2025 will be fantastic fun—I’d love for you to join us!

Your role and responsibilities

Our platform

Our Platform powers teams inside some of the world’s biggest insurance companies. You can think of it as a mash-up of:

• Jira, Linear and Asana: Manage team workflow, tasks and collaboration.
• Google Sheets, Excel and Airtable: Work with complex interactive spreadsheets and large datasets.
• Superhuman and HubSpot: Sending and ingesting email.

Our challenges

We have some exciting technical challenges to tackle on our React/TypeScript frontend:

1. Building a high-performance experience
   Deliver the fastest possible user experience so that our web app feels almost as fast as a desktop app, even when working with complex forms and large datasets.
2. Building collaborative real-time technologies
   Enable multiple users to collaborate on a document (including tabular data), without compromising data integrity.
3. Accommodating hugely divergent workflows
   Our customers operate differently, so our platform must remain flexible enough to support each. This means solving the above challenges in an elegant and highly customisable way.

How we’ll work together

We use an adapted Shape Up methodology, alternating between major new feature development ("Bets") and ongoing iterative improvements:

• Discovery : Lead discovery and research to identify and prototype potential solutions to key problems.
• Bets : Own frontend engineering on cross-functional Bet teams: you’ll work closely with designers and backend engineers, and will be responsible for the quality and reliability of the frontend experience.
• Maintenance: Take care of dependency and tooling upgrades and migrations to minimise technical debt.
• Unplanned work: Get hands-on fixing immediate bugs and issues affecting our customers when needed. We try to design systems to keep this to a minimum, but in a scale-up like ours, it’s a fact of life!

You’ll work closely with our frontend/design engineering team:

• Joe, our Lead Frontend Engineer (also a Haskell developer)
• A small group of design engineers.

About you

Essential

• You have extensive experience building high-performance frontend experiences with React and TypeScript, squeezing the best possible performance with a mix of intelligent caching, query design and local data storage. You’re comfortable working with dependencies like React Query.
• You’ve worked on products with a collaborative, real-time element and love the challenge of managing state and data integrity between server and client while providing a highly interactive experience. You’re very comfortable working with a mix of state charts, websockets and REST APIs.
• You have experience working in startups or scale-ups and enjoy the significant ownership and variety this brings (along with the enjoyable messiness that needs to be navigated).
• You're comfortable working with Tailwind and appreciate why it’s a pragmatic decision for rapidly scaling products like ours. You’ve also worked with headless UI libraries (our React component system is built on Radix primitives ) and enjoy refactoring components as their architecture starts to fail with scale and complexity.
• Although you don’t necessarily have a design background, you’re highly motivated by shipping high-quality user experiences. You consider yourself to have taste and feel comfortable collaborating with designers and design engineers to suggest user-experience improvements.
• You excel at advocating for your ideas—both verbally and in writing—while remaining receptive to feedback and adapting your approach to ship effective solutions.

Desirable

• Our backend is built with Haskell, so experience with Haskell, PureScript or other functional programming languages would be a plus. However, this isn’t a requirement and shouldn’t dissuade you from applying! We’re actively working to make our backend and frontend more independent and minimise the need for frontend engineers to work with Haskell.
• Although the frontend team is remote/distributed, we aim to meet face-to-face once in a while. Ideally, you’ll be willing and able to visit our office in London occasionally.
  We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building a team that reflects the diverse communities around us. If there’s anything you need to make the hiring process more accessible, just let us know—we’re happy to make adjustments. You’re also welcome to share your preferred pronouns with us at any point.
  Think you don’t meet every requirement? Please apply anyway. We value potential as much as experience, and we know that raw talent counts.
  As part of our hiring process, we’ll carry out some background checks. These may include a criminal record check, reviewing your credit history, speaking with previous employers and confirming your academic qualifications.