Wakam

Wakam

Blockchain, FinTech / InsurTech, Insurance

Paris, London, Milan, Munich

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Organization and methodologies

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We use the Agile methodology with deliverables along the way. Out Tech teams are divided into multidisciplinary Squads working on several projects.

A few team rituals set the pace of our schedules:

  • stand-up meetings: a quick update to see the User Stories progression and to spot blocking points.
  • backlog groomings: during which we assess the priority, dependencies and complexity of our different Stories to set them better within the sprints and deliver quality as efficiently as possible.
  • sprint review meetings: we take a step back to look at what went well and what could be improved in the next sprints to ensure continuous improvement. We encourage transparency and responsibility. There's no room for ego or emotion, we basically aim to be more and more efficient all together!
  • postmortems: if something didn't go as planned, we always analyse why then define and approve an action plan so that it goes better next time.

Products and platforms

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Play & Plug : The only entry point to all of our services enabling our partners to create and control their insurance products.

** Pricing** : Our pricing API receives more than 10 million calls per month to evaluate the cost of an insurance.

Policy Admin System : A platform to manage insurance policies on public blockchain. It deals with various operations such as policy subscription, mid-term adjustments, renewals, etc.

Data Platform : Our data platform handles our partners' insurance data (more than 1000 data streams) to support all business uses through Business Intelligence, DataViz, Data Exposure and Data Science.

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Continuous learning

To keep on learning, training and to stay aware of the latest tech trends are very important to us. This is why we have set up:

  • peer programming sessions
  • lightning talks: 3 minutes to pitch a project to your peers
  • join meetups and tech conferences, and host our own
  • new Wakamees mentored by more senior profiles to train them on our development best practices

Hiring requirements

Yes, hard skills are important, but we are also looking for people who will truly fit into our teams. Team spirit, proactivity, kindness and cooperation first!

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Presentation

Wakam is a B2B2C insurance company that designs tailor-made solutions for its partners — brokers, insurtechs, retailers and more.
Our products are distributed white-label and seamlessly embedded into customer journeys.

What does that look like in real life?
You rent an e-scooter — you're already insured without even thinking about it. 🪄🛴

Our Play&Plug platform is the engine behind everything we do.
It’s what allows us to distribute insurance products across 32 countries in Europe, via a full suite of APIs that manage the entire policy lifecycle — from pricing to administration.

And to power all this?
We work with the best tech-TPAs on the market and the most effective orchestrators for each business line.

At Wakam, we’re not just doing insurance. In March 2021, we became a mission-driven company, with a purpose written into our legal status: to make insurance transparent and impactful. And we’re not just paying lip service.

We’ve made three concrete commitments to bring this mission to life every day:

  1. Write our contracts in plain language (bye-bye legalese and jargon)

  2. Ensure fair value distribution between all stakeholders — no excessive commissions or unbalanced ratios

  3. Fund social initiatives through our endowment fund, which supports people facing psychological exclusion

Yes — we believe insurance can genuinely drive positive change. And we’re looking for people who share that vision.

Our culture? Free to impact.
A culture where anything is possible, where every idea is heard, and where everyone has the power to reshape insurance.

But it’s more than just words.
Our daily work is guided by 11 cultural markers that shape the way we collaborate, innovate, make decisions, and grow. They’re the colourful stickers you’ve probably spotted in our photos. 😄

So — craving freedom? Looking for autonomy?
If you're bold and love a challenge, the Wakam adventure might just be for you!

What they are looking for

Mindset compatibility with our ‘Free to Impact’ culture:

  • Think big
  • Biased for action
  • Curious and eager to learn
  • Can say no and find solutions
  • Aims for the moon (but please don’t stick on the moon)
  • And above all: have fun working together 🤜🤛 !

Good to know

Wakam is not based on a hierarchy but on a methodology where everyone finds his role and knows his objectives.

With a flat hierarchical system and a highly collaborative operating model, Wakam is an extremely agile and transparent company.

Every last Friday of the month, it's FreeDay at Wakam, a day without meetings to take a step aside and dedicate ourselves to skills sponsorship or other activities (because we are curious, I remind you).

Full-remote is a reality at Wakam (there is even one Wakamee who works from his sailing boat ⛵)

We are nice (you'll find out by yourself 😉)

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