Intermediate / Senior Backend Developer, Descartes Underwriting
App, Python, CDI, Starting September 2025
+Bonus
Parametric insurance against climate risk
Be an early applicant
Parametric insurance against climate risk
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+Bonus
101-200 employees
Company mission
To create a new generation of parametric solutions: fully transparent, customised to the client’s needs and providing swift claims payment.
Role
Who you are
- Good knowledge in python and python API frameworks (FastAPI, Flask)
- Experience with noSQL / SQL databases
- Experience with Docker
- Good knowledge in English and fluency in French
- Familiar with production development workflow (code reviews, fast forward git policy, pair coding, SCRUM)
- From 3-4 years of experience
- Desire to train junior developers and explain software design and good practices
- Desire to keep learning from more experimented developers
- Desire to suggest improvements in architecture or features
- Ability to understand break epic track in achievable issues
- Strong interest in climate issues (it’s not a hoax, many people suffer from it)
- Being comfortable to work alongside corporate insurers (some still wear suits)
- You enjoy CI/CD automation (or at least appreciate the elegance of a well-crafted pipeline)
- Willingness to help junior developers (remember how you were when you started)
- Strong team spirit and ability to work (you’ll have to review code and have your code reviewed)
- Rigorous, creative and meticulous mind (we handle large insurance, we take our time)
- Strong desire to learn (there’s no limitation to the tech used, we’re happy to test and learn new tools)
- Eagerness to work in a multi-cultural environment (policies and teams are from all around the world)
Desirable
- Experience building interactive apps with React JS
- Experience working with GCP or equivalent cloud providers
- Experience in a microservices architecture
- Experience in Agile or TDD
- Contribution to an open source project
What the job involves
- Due to our consistent growth, we are seeking to expand our Data, Software and DevOps team. At the core of our company, your missions will focus on:
- Build and maintain backend for interactive web applications
- Testing and refactoring code already used in existing project
- Introducing object oriented patterns in functional code
- Profile and optimizing python codes
- Develop, optimize, update and deploy software for:
- Portfolio management
- In-depth analysis of risk models
- Interactive forms and data visualization
- Export of outputs adapted to users
- Monitoring of contracts and associated data
- Testing and validation of existing solutions
- Maintain the software solution with:
- Version management
- Technical Documentation (architecture design, detailed design, validation tests)
- Programming best practices
- Support, test and correct the tools of:
- Continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD)
- Data storage
- Modularization and containerization of IT solutions
- Connection to external and internal API’s
- To participate in:
- Assessment and definition of user needs
- Conversion of technical specification into software development tasks
- Bug tracking management
- Software evolution management
- Choice of technical solutions
- Discussions with IT partners
- Improving the skills of technical staff
- Managing the access and rights of users of internal tools
Application process
- Step 1: Call and HR Interview with our Talent Recruiter
- Step 2: Technical project submitted via GitHub
- Step 3: Technical interview
- Step 4: Manager interview
- Step 5: Final round interview with the team
- (Candidates can opt to have the manager interview before the technical project and interview)
Our take
The corporate insurance market is undergoing a momentous shift driven by a changing climate, the growing impact of natural catastrophes, and a rise in emerging risks. Climate change has become a real risk to businesses - one Nature report, for example, found that the US alone could lose over $500 billion across 22 sectors if rising global temperature predictions materialise. The need for effective corporate insurance has never been higher.
Descartes Underwriting is looking to revolutionise how we approach insurance. Taking on one of the insurance industry’s traditional methods - catastrophe (CAT) risk modelling - Descartes is leveraging new data sources and fusing them with a host of AI algorithms. This provides what it describes as a “product offering which covers the full spectrum of natural catastrophes and emerging risk exposures.” Its AI-driven parametric insurance model is highly disruptive, and has proven highly successful - just a few years after its founding, Descartes had already become the leading InsurTech player worldwide.
Following major funding, Descartes is looking to scale up its approach to corporate and public entity risk exposures, growing its technology platform, expanding into new lines of business and targeting larger deals. With an existing client base spanning hundreds of corporations including a host of Fortune 500 companies, Descartes looks set for big things in the coming years.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2022
$120m
SERIES B
Sep 2020
$18.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $140.6m
Company benefits
- Work in a rewarding and international environment
- Gain exposure to working with top management
- Continued learning and development (think annual seminars, training etc.)
- Frequent team events
- Work in a collaborative and professional environment
- Benefit from a hybrid way of working
Company values
- Think & build globally from the first iteration
Company HQ
Chaillot, Paris, France
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Leadership
Tanguy Touffut
(CEO)Previously Global Head of Parametric Insurance at AXA Corporate Solutions, then CEO of AXA Global Parametrics.
Sebastien Piguet
(Chief Underwriting Officer)Previously Head of On-Demand Insurance Products at AXA Global Parametrics.
Kevin Dedieu
(Chief R&D Officer)Previously a Senior Consultant at MPG Partners. Also a visiting lecturer at École Polytechnique.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Descartes Underwriting
- At Descartes Underwriting we value diversity across multiple dimensions – cultural, cognitive, leadership & experience. Our diverse multilingual and multicultural team is core to our value proposition, allowing us to think & build globally from the first iteration. We seek talents who will add additional analytical perspectives & insights
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