Simply Business exhibiting at London Tech Job Fair Autumn 2019

An introduction to
the technology team
at Simply Business
Simply the best people in tech. Full stop.
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Say hello to
Hasani Jess
A welcome from our Chief Technology Officer
“I genuinely believe we have the best people in tech. Full stop.
We’re a diverse bunch of people who are united by a passion
for building technology, which is as innovative today as it will
be reliable tomorrow – and enables the world’s best commercial
insurance experience.
“I can't wait for you to hear what we have to offer you if you decide
to work for us. I hope to meet you soon!”
About Simply Business
A welcome from our
Chief Technology Officer
Our mission
Our values
Our culture
About technology at
Simply Business
More reasons to join
Simply Business

A welcome from our
Our mission
Our values
Our culture
About technology at
Simply Business
Simply Business
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About
Simply Business
We’re obsessed with making the process of finding insurance
as simple as it can be for small businesses, with no hint of
compromise on choice, quality or cost. We’ve created a unique,
digital marketplace for SME insurance which features dozens
of valuable insurers and, in the process, have challenged a
traditional industry – taking us from an ambitious start-up
to a half-billion dollar company.
We’re committed to enabling our people to thrive and have
won awards for being the UK’s best place to work. As a Benefit
Corporation, we’ve changed our entire governance structure to
reflect our ethical outlook. We harness cutting-edge data ability,
believe in experimentation and build our own technology to
deliver better experiences for our customers and employees.
But what we’re most proud of is our stunning customer
feedback – 9/10 customers rate us good or excellent.
This only strengthens our commitment to change the way
the world sees insurance.
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A welcome from our
Our mission
Our values
Our culture
About technology at
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Simply Business

Our mission
To create something better,
to support the success of small
businesses, to enable our people
to thrive and have a positive
impact on the world.
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A welcome from our
Our mission
Our values
Our culture
About technology at
Simply Business
Simply Business

Our values
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A welcome from our
Our mission
Our values
Our culture
About technology at
Simply Business
Simply Business

A welcome from our
Our mission
Our values
Our culture
About technology at
Simply Business
Simply Business
Living our
values
A great business is underpinned
by strong, meaningful values.
We don’t change ours often, but
we do get together regularly to
check in and make sure they still
resonate and define who we are.
If it feels right, we’ll calibrate, and
replace a value with one that fits
us, and where we’re going.
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A welcome from our
Our mission
Our values
Our culture
About technology at
Simply Business
Simply Business
Living our values
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A welcome from our
Our mission
Our values
Our culture
About technology at
Simply Business
Simply Business
Our culture We’re innovators, pioneers,
and creators of change.
We’re informal yet professional.
We’re human.
We fundraise, throw parties
and laugh. A lot.
We build, we fail, we learn, we
improve. Our culture’s won us
awards, but what’s more, we
know it’s what helps us do the
best we can for our customers
and the world at large.
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About technology at
Simply Business
A word from Vice Chairman
Jason Stockwood
What we do
How we do it
Our platforms and technology
Inside our hackathons
Developing our machine learning
capability is a strategic priority
What do our tech employees love
about working here?
Simply Business

We are a technology company
who happen to sell insurance
– Jason Stockwood
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About technology at
Simply Business
Jason Stockwood
What we do
Our tech team's mission
about working here?
Simply Business

Simply the best
people in tech.
Full stop.
We believe in using technology to delight,
amaze and give back real value to our
customers, our people, and the wider
community. We’re proud to be an
empowered and committed team working
on a global platform renowned for its
excellence. We’re constantly growing our
ability to craft an industry-respected
portfolio of products that leads to results
that matter.
Our authentic diversity fuels our culture,
which uses data to drive our continuous
pursuit of technical excellence, ensuring
that our talented people have the best
tools, opportunity and support to thrive.
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About technology at
Simply Business
Jason Stockwood
What we do
about working here?
Simply Business

To help Simply Business create
the world’s best commercial
insurance experience by enabling
its future with technology.
To focus day-to-day on making
our technology and platforms
as reliable as running water
while experimenting our way
to better experiences.
To practice authenticity in
everything we do, helping our
people to thrive and feel valued.
Our tech
team’s
mission
About technology at
Simply Business
Jason Stockwood
What we do
about working here?
Simply Business
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About technology at
Simply Business
Jason Stockwood
What we do
about working here?
Simply Business
Our platforms
and technology
Our technology team isn’t just award-winning, it’s
at the heart of our strategy as a brand and business.
So we invest in our teams and working culture,
building a company that talented people want to
join and work with.
Most of our applications are built using Ruby, Ruby on
Rails, React, Redux, JavaScript, Python, Scala and Go,
with some others in the mix.
They sit on top of different databases like MongoDB,
Redis, MySQL, Snowflake and ElasticSearch and testing
frameworks like RSpec, Cucumber, Jasmine and Jest.
Gluing all this together, we rely on Kafka, Puppet and
AWS, among others.
We’re smart-working, so location and flexible working
hours are a given, and we regularly fund training,
conference tickets and all sorts of personal
development plans.
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About technology at
Simply Business
Jason Stockwood
What we do
about working here?
Simply Business
Chopin
This is our global policy
management system. It also
handles the back-office system
that our consultants use
Git-powered CMS
A content management
system used by marketing
and copywriters
Journey
Multi-step form builder built
in-house, which manages all
user flows within Chopin
Continuous Cover
This handles the automatic
renewal of customer policies
A leading rating engine
Our insurance secret
sauce: a rating engine built
on a proprietary DSL that
enables lightning-fast and
test-driven updates
AERIE
Our data platform that allows
us to process data in real-time,
get insights, provide business
intelligence, and build machine
learning applications
Idiophone
A telephony system that
enables consultants to
make and receive calls
Our key
systems
These are systems we’ve
built in-house to support
our business. They
integrate with various
third party systems that
are either deployed in
our environment
or on the cloud to
provide the necessary
functionality.
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About technology at
Simply Business
Jason Stockwood
What we do
about working here?
Simply Business
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capability is a priority. Why?
Data science can deliver enormous value to every area of the business.
It provides insight so we can understand our customers’ needs – helping
them make the right decisions when it comes to their insurance.
Data will shape the
future of the business:
Data products based on
machine learning are
helping us to automate
processes and make better
strategic decisions
The technology behind our data:
Our machine learning platform
based in AWS Sagemaker provides
an optimised environment to work
on data science ideas and quickly
roll out machine learning models
into production
About technology at
Simply Business
Jason Stockwood
What we do
about working here?
Simply Business
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What do our
tech employees
love about
working here?
About technology at
Simply Business
Jason Stockwood
What we do
about working here?
Simply Business
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We are fully committed to creating a working
environmentthat is challenging, rewarding, inspiring
and fun.
Erica Barbato, Engineering Manager – Data Science
We like to try out new technologies so that we
stay familiar with what’s new and possible.
Lukas Oberhuber, Group Chief
Technological Officer
Simply Business has empowered me to take
my career in the direction I want it to go.
Zoe Aldington, Senior Insight Analyst

Simply Business
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About technology at
Simply Business
Simply Business
The perks
The company trip
We’re ethical and support
brilliant causes
We believe in the future of work
We support the backbone
of the economy
We’re global
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Offices geared up for smart working
With areas to collaborate, get your head down, or simply relax – why not take a peek?
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About technology at
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Simply Business
The perks
The company trip
brilliant causes
of the economy
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About technology at
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Simply Business
The perks
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The ‘core’ stuff
While some of these will only
kick in once you’ve passed
probation, here’s a summary:
A salary that reflects your
experience, our pay policy and
the market we’re in from your first
day, with generous annual leave
A flexible working style that
lets you work remotely
Life cover (financial cover for your
family, should the worst happen)
A cash plan to reimburse your
everyday medical expenses
An extra day off if you get
married or move house
A stakeholder pension (employer-
matched at five per cent)
The fun stuff
Passed probation? Time to
pick and mix from things like:
A full gym membership
Private medical insurance
Cinema passes
Up to 5 extra days annual leave
Shopping vouchers
Dental insurance and
travel insurance
The perks
There’s all the serious
(but important) stuff we
call the ‘core benefits’.
On top of those, you
can pick and choose
from the more exciting
options we offer –
whether it’s a full gym
membership or gym
subsidy, comprehensive
private health cover,
extra holiday, or a
National Trust pass.
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About technology at
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Simply Business
The perks
The company trip
brilliant causes
of the economy
We’re global
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The company trip In June 2019 over 300 of us
jumped on the train for our
annual company awards trip.
Where we headed? Paris, France.
What did we get up to? We
celebrated the fantastic efforts of
our employees over the previous
year, then enjoyed a perfect
sunset and rooftop bar party.
There’s simply no party like a
Simply Business party.
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The company tripAbout Simply Business
About technology at
Simply Business
Simply Business
The perks
The company trip
brilliant causes
of the economy
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About technology at
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Simply Business
The perks
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brilliant causes
of the economy
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We're ethical... Simply Business is recognised
as a B Corp company because
we believe in making the world
a better place.
B Corps are united in using
business as a force for good.
It’s a perfect fit with our values,
as we’ve always felt that business
has a higher purpose. It has to be
good for employees, customers
and the world around us.
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About technology at
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Simply Business
The perks
The company trip
brilliant causes
of the economy
We’re global
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About technology at
Simply Business
Simply Business
The perks
The company trip
brilliant causes
of the economy
We’re global
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...and support
brilliant causes
Whizz-Kidz is a charity that gives
independence and freedom to
children with disabilities. We’ve
been supporting them since 2016
– and have raised more than
£180,000 for them in that time.
We’ve also sponsored the England
Amputee Football Association
since 2017, who provide
footballing opportunities for
limbless and limb-affected people.
In 2018, we helped the England
team to the Amputee Football
World Cup in Mexico.
From our employee-first
People policies to charity
work with Whizz-Kidz and the
English Amputee Football
Association, Simply Business
works to empower everyone.
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We believe
in the future
of work
Vice Chairman Jason Stockwood
says in his book, Reboot, that
people are a company’s best asset.
So we’ve been exploring new ways
to get our people to thrive inside
and outside of work, and will be
experimenting with them in 2020.
As technology is making us more
efficient at our jobs, one of our
experiments involves implementing
a four-day work week in our
Northampton contact centre in
2020. The SB Tech team will have
an important role in driving this
change – and will play a key part in
building the future of work.
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About technology at
Simply Business
Simply Business
The perks
The company trip
brilliant causes
of the economy
We’re global
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SMEs account for
99% of all UK businesses
£1.9tn combined
annual turnover
We support the
backbone of
the economy
The UK’s small businesses are diverse.
From dog walkers to hairdressers,
plasterers to personal trainers, we
support the businesses that make the
economy tick.
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Simply Business
Simply Business
The perks
The company trip
brilliant causes
of the economy
We’re global
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From dynamic startups
to established family firms,
our SMEs are the backbone
of our country.
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Simply Business
The perks
The company trip
brilliant causes
of the economy
We’re global
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We’re global There are over 30 million small businesses and sole
proprietors across the United States, and many, if not
most, need help in managing the risk that comes
with the job. It’s a huge opportunity for Simply
Business, to create something better in an
established insurance industry.
In true Build, Measure, Learn fashion, we’re keen to
apply the learnings that have made our UK business
so successful over the last decade to our new
adventure, and equally learn from the challenges
we’re facing in the US. That’s why we regularly
collaborate and share progress globally – which is
made easier by our remote-friendly work spaces.
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Simply Business
The perks
The company trip
brilliant causes
of the economy
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We’re global Hear from Bill Peña about our ambitious plans to challenge the
US commercial insurance market – providing a simpler, better
insurance deal for 30 million US micro-businesses.
About technology at
Simply Business
Simply Business
The perks
The company trip
brilliant causes
We serve the backbone of
the economy
We’re global
Like what you see?
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Like what
you see?
You’ve come to the end of our prospectus but this
doesn’t have to be the end of your Simply Business
journey.
If you’ve got any questions after reading, speak
to a member of our team, who’ll be happy to help.
If you’re ready to apply, check out all of our vacancies
at simplybusiness.co.uk/about-us/careers/tech/
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The perks
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