About Outsurance

What we do

OUTsurance revolutionised the direct short term insurance industry when it launched in February 1998 and since then we've remained the most innovative and customer focussed insurance company in South Africa. The business has always had a strong ethos of having powerful, flexible software that enables the business to deliver on its promise of awesome service for our clients and industry leading rating and underwriting practices.

Why Work For Us

We're looking to build the best enterprise IT shop in South Africa. We understand that every company is an IT company now, and that to be the best insurance company in the world, we need to have the best software development capabilities in our industry. We work in the latest web and mobile technologies and have challenging problems that need solving across all of our business. We need smart, dedicated people who get stuff done to help us realise our vision through a focus on technical excellence, software craftsmanship and collaboration.

Our Culture

Outsurance has a ‘work hard, play hard’ culture where we expect people to achieve incredible results and provide opportunities for them to genuinely enjoy themselves at work. We have sports courts on our campus where people can take part in soccer, volleyball and cricket rosters as well many other company driven initiatives.

Within IT, we strive to have a culture where everyone is able to contribute all of themselves and people are not limited to doing what’s written on their job description. We love passionate, open discussions that help us move towards a culture where technical excellence is the norm and people are able to have a say in how we can help them do their best work.

Our Engineering Processes

We aim to make use of the best tools and processes to help us:
- Deliver software that meets business needs and delights users quickly
- Build quality into the way we work

We work agilely in small, focussed teams. Some of the tooling we use includes : .Net, Angular JS, Xamarin, Octopus Deploy, Git, Jira.

We definitely view our processes as works in progress and want people to help us take them to places we can’t imagine yet.

Our Hiring Process

We try to make sure that the people we get to join our team are the best possible fit for what we’re trying to achieve. That means that you’ll be amazing at your work, a life-long learner and someone that people love to work with.

To figure this out, we’ll ask you to complete a brief coding exercise at home, meet with us (in person or virtually) for an informal chat to talk about what makes you tick, and then work with some of our developers on an in person technical interview.