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About Different Technology

Address
18 Ealing Crescent, Bryanston, Johannesburg 2021
Company size
15-50 employees

Summary

What we do We're building the digital future of the insurance industry. Not just an administration platform but an end-to-end capability with everything you need to run a next-generation digital life insurance business. Built from the ground up using modern software development techniques for maximum agility. Digital self-service for both sales and servicing as a core design philosophy not an afterthought. Tested and refined over nine years in a real-world environment. Simple enough to run a basic funeral product but intelligent enough to handle a comprehensive suite of fully underwritten products on the same policy.

Why Work For Us Different was set up as a technology startup nine years ago to disrupt the traditional financial services industry. We believe that companies should be about more than just making a profit and our unique Life Insurance offering allows us to partner with our customers to make a difference in South Africa. We believe the best way to compete with the established players is to follow a Lean Startup approach of building minimum viable products and then iterating based on customer feedback. We run two major platforms: Life insurance (https://differentlife.co.za)
Crowdfunding (https://different.org)

Our Culture We are a small high performing team. The company is built around the development team and developers have the opportunity to have a significant and direct impact on the success of the business.

Our Engineering Processes We use Angular, PHP and JAVA as our primary languages and open source tools that include SuiteCRM and Asterisk. All our infrastructure is AWS based and we are committed to Automated Testing and Continuous Deployment. We do weekly sprints following an agile methodology combining aspects of XP, Scrum and Kanban.

Our Hiring Process

  1. 20min Culture fit Interview (video call)
  2. 60min Technical assessment
  3. 60min Technical Interview

Perks at Different Technology

Flexible hours and remote working
Choose your own laptop
Generous leave policy
Great coffee

Tech Stack

application and data

Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2
Laravel
Laravel
MySQL
MySQL
PHP
PHP
Java
Java
Kotlin
Kotlin
Angular
Angular

utilities

Amazon SES
Amazon SES
Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch
Google Analytics
Google Analytics
Qlik
Qlik

dev ops

Ansible
Ansible
Jenkins
Jenkins
Selenium
Selenium
IntelliJ IDEA
IntelliJ IDEA

business tool

Google Apps
Google Apps
Slack
Slack
Trello
Trello