Engineering at Root
summary
Claim: a mobile-first insurance product uses smartphone telematics to price drivers by smooth braking and distracted driving instead of demographics. Built from scratch with a Rails API and a React Native mobile app, the stack ships mobile weekly and backend twice daily. Growth goes from ~78 employees in 2018 to ~1,450 now, 34 engineering teams and 212 software engineers. Live features detect driver versus passenger during a multi-week test drive and a Drop the Score push aims to remove credit from pricing.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:26Our Mission
- 3:52Broken Industry
- 6:19Insurance Product
- 11:10Driving Habits
- 11:54Drop the Score
- 13:48Growth at Root
- 15:14Personnel and Applications
- 16:56Culture and Mindset
- 19:31Engineering at Root
- 24:24Outro
