Junior Fullstack Software Engineer, Akur8
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AI insurance pricing solution
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AI insurance pricing solution
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+Annual Bonus
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
Akur8's mission is to revolutionise insurance pricing with transparent AI.
Role
Who you are
- You are a Software Engineer with Frontend expertise, with a client-first approach that will help us build our complex data-processing solution
- You have an objective-driven mindset and you have proactivity solving problems that matter for our deliveries and to our clients
- You possess a sharp curiosity to understand both the smallest details, and the general purpose of the features being developed
- Candidates must be team players with excellent interpersonal skills
- They must also have solid, proven experience architecting and building commercial quality business software applications
- Experience in software development
- Understand client priorities & the need to find the right balance between fast delivery and code robustness
- Master Degree (Bac+5) from a top engineering school
- Work closely with product and designers to refine features and prototypes
- A fluent level of spoken English
Desirable
- Experience in JAVA, Python, C# or another back end development language
- Interest in Machine Learning
- Experience using AWS
What the job involves
- We’re looking for Junior Full-Stack Software Engineers, working in majority on Frontend, that have a strong interest in both cloud-computing & AI in order to help build our complex SAAS solution alongside our world-class tech teams
- Our Engineering team is the driving force behind an exhilarating development journey, sculpting the gold standard in insurance pricing software according to our ambitious development roadmap
- Design and implement features that allow actuaries to better understand their pricing strategies
- Develop mainly the Frontend components of our features using Angular
- Implement high-performance responsive user interfaces
- Work closely with Machine Learning engineers to put in production new ML methods
- Work closely with product and designers to refine features and prototypes
- Ensure that the development is in line with clean code standards and our testing strategy
- Close contact with clients to ensure maximum reactivity of your team
- They need to be a guarantor that Front end best coding practices are respected and followed in the squad and throughout the engineering team
Our take
Putting the correct pricing on insurance has always been a challenge for insurance companies. On the one hand, getting the right price is essential for ensuring an insurance company's viability, as pricing too low could decimate its profits in the event of a mis-priced payout. On the other hand, pricing too high is a surefire way to drive off customers - one study by Accenture found that price was the number one driver of customer loyalty. However, despite its importance, insurance pricing has traditionally been a human task, and therefore prone to errors and biases.
Akur8 wants to change this. Its product is an AI-based insurance pricing solution that automates modelling for insurance companies, while keeping full transparency and control on the models created, as required by regulators worldwide. The only solution on the market reconciling machine learning and actuarial worlds, Akur8’s platform enhances insurers’ pricing processes, reducing modelling time whilst increasing predictive power.
Pricing in the insurance industry is changing fast, with developments coming frequently from both regulators and consumers. Keeping on top of such developments will be paramount to Akur8's success. Judging by its early metrics, though, it looks like this should be no problem. In just a few years it has acquired big customers, including the likes of AXA and Generali, and its footprint spans over forty countries in multiple continents. Following major funding, Akur8 looks well placed to continue its early success, and with a strategy focused on international expansion, it should be set for big things in future.
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Company benefits
- Annual bonus
- Company shares/equity
- Hybrid office/home office policy
- 25 days of paid holidays + RTT
- Gym membership with Gymlib + on-site gym facilities/different sporting events
- Swile lunch vouchers
- Alan health insurance (including possibility of family coverage)
- Relocation support
- Sponsored crèche access
- Free cafeteria with fresh fruit, drinks and snacks
- Ongoing training
Company values
- Challenge the unbearable status quo - We strive for innovation and for the transformation of the insurance industry. But we command change only when it is a no-brainer and has genuine virtuous impact
- Disrupt the known, organize the unknown - We work without any borders. We have the ability to challenge ourselves to adapt to unknown scenarios. We thrive in structuring what is hardly structurable
- AI-driven but refreshingly human - Akur8 is an artificially-intelligent solution but humanity always comes first, within our team, with our clients and with our solution, where AI is Transparent and human-controlled
- Build things that last - We build long-standing, robust and reliable solutions for new and century-old insurance companies. We are here to stay
Company HQ
Plaine-Monceau, Paris, France
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Leadership
Samuel Falmagne
(CEO)Worked at IBM for over 17 years, holding a range of executive roles, and also served as Head of Sales for Shift Technology.
Guillaume Beraud-Sudreau
(Head of Product & Data-Science)Has a background in engineering, and has worked as Lead Data Scientist and Head of R&D at AXA.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Akur8
- At Akur8, we pride ourselves in having an exceptionally international team with 20 nationalities represented and 16 languages spoken. Inclusion & diversity are core values to us, that go beyond words
- We are very happy to work with Gloria to ensure that these values are true not only on paper but also in our company DNA
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