About Switch by Santam

Address

The Bank, Corner Cradock and Tyrwhitt Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg

Company Size

1-15
Summary

What is Switch by Santam?

Insurance is one of the biggest markets in the world because everybody has to manage their risks. Large, traditional insurers move slowly and struggle to innovate. We believe that, with the right team, we can build a business that succeeds in redefining personal insurance for the 21st century.

On-demand protection for your favourite things. An insurance product built around the customer, not the insurer. Switch cover on and off with a swipe. Submit claims via the app - no paper forms and call centres. Hooray!

Switch comprises a team of dynamic, talented and experienced professionals from diverse backgrounds. With policies underwritten by the market leader, Switch is a division of Santam for digital, on-demand insurance.

Why work for us?

  1. Disrupt an industry: think about everything that's broken with your current insurer! What do you want to fix?
  2. Empowerment: you will make strategic architectural and technical decisions.
  3. Flexibility: modern insurer means modern employer - flexible work-hours and work-from-home option.
  4. No Legacy Tech: modern insurer means modern tech stack.
  5. Growth: develop new skills through peer learning in a team of world-class technologists.

Culture

We look for people who are passionate, take responsibility, have fun and treat each other with respect.

We try to live by the following values:

  • Respect
  • Take ownership, be accountable
  • Reasoned argument
  • Foster the team’s growth and have fun
  • Open by default
  • Innovate everywhere
  • Think long-term to be sustainable
  • Act ethically and build customer respect

Office Locations

Our team is primarily remote, but we also have offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

Perks
No dress code
Flexible working hours
25 days annual leave
Work remotely
Diverse team
Group Life and Disability Insurance
Tech Stack

Application and Data

Amazon S3
Amazon EC2
Amazon VPC
PostgreSQL
Python
Django
Bootstrap
React Native
Amazon Lambda
Amazon Cognito
AWS Amplify
BigQuery
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon API Gateway
GraphQL
Amazon Web Services

DevOps

GitHub
Circle CI
Git
Docker
Terraform
SonarQube
Datadog
Sentry

Utilities

Amazon Route 53
Amazon SES
Elasticsearch
Google Analytics
BrowserStack

Business Tools

Google Apps
Slack
JIRA
Confluence
Miro