Solutions Engineer

Root is a fast-growing tech startup and we’re on a mission to build the future of insurance.

We are looking for a skilled, technical individual to join our Solutions Engineering team and help us design, architect and build insurance products for clients on the Root platform. Root’s Solutions Engineers operate at the forefront of integrating client systems and insurance products with Root’s platform to onboard and generate value for them as fast as possible. This means working directly with clients to understand their systems, pains and business requirements in order to implement optimal, low-risk and low-maintenance solutions.

You will play a key role in the product solutioning and architecture process, and your work will ensure that products are robust, accurate and optimised to meet client needs. You will be working closely with different technical teams, both internally and externally, architecting Root-based solutions. Ultimately, you’ll build these insurance products with our Root tools and packages in a scalable, clean, and easily comprehensible manner for other engineers to integrate with.

You can read up more on some of the tools we’ve created to build insurance products in our docs here. This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive person who really enjoys solving technical problems.

A snapshot of the tools our solutions engineers regularly use :

• JavaScript / Typescript - for encoding insurance business rules
• NodeJS - for using npm packages effectively in solutions
• JSON - for configuring UI components
• HTML & CSS - for configuring document templates
• Postman (or similar tool) - for interacting with and testing APIs
• Git & GitHub - for source control
• Mocha and Chai - for writing robust unit tests
• AWS - Specifically S3, Serverless and Lambda.

This full-time role is based at our De Waterkant office in Cape Town, working on a hybrid work model.