Platform Engineer, AKUR8
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Next-gen insurance pricing and reserving platform
Open for applications
Next-gen insurance pricing and reserving platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ annual bonus
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower actuarial, pricing and reserving experts to make better decisions, faster.
Role
Who you are
- With a minimum of 2 years of professional experience in Software Development
- Strong knowledge of AWS cloud environment and infrastructure is mandatory
- With experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub, and automation workflows
- Proficient in both English and French, with the ability to communicate effectively in professional settings in both languages as the candidate will work with teams distributed across NA/EU/JP
- Strong programming skills (Python, Java, Go etc.)
- Motivated, curious and open-minded who will contribute to the strong team culture
- Who will be willing to participate in on-call rotations
What the job involves
- Akur8 is looking for a motivated, curious, and passionate Platform Engineer to join our Platform Operations team in Paris
- You will play a key role in accelerating the application lifecycle by building internal platform capabilities (tools, paved roads, and reusable abstractions) that make it easy for feature teams to ship reliably and safely, in a dynamic and international environment and collaborating daily with product/R&D teams to continuously improve developer experience, reliability, and cost efficiency
- Fluidify the lifecycle of our applications by designing and developing internal tools, CLIs, and abstractions that reduce cognitive load and operational friction for feature teams
- Contribute to pragmatic automation and self-service workflows, leveraging Python, Go, or Rust depending on the use case (performance, safety, maintainability)
- Pilot our AWS environments (laying the foundations of our infrastructure and maintaining the infra supporting our products) and our Kubernetes clusters, managed through Terraform with rigorous engineering standards (versioning, reviews, testing)
- Ensure our platform remains secure, scalable, and consistent across environments, while keeping infrastructure changes auditable and reproducible
- Because Akur8’s platform must support massive ML compute workloads, continuously optimize the environment to keep the right balance between performance, scalability, and cost control. This includes capacity planning, right-sizing, workload optimization strategies (where relevant), and building the right visibility to make cost a first-class engineering signal
- Help spread Cloud Native culture and SRE practices across feature teams observability, CI/CD, and reliability habits that scale
- Share knowledge of the platform, clarify processes, and contribute to operational excellence through documentation, best practices, and coaching. The goal: enable teams to own their services with confidence while meeting reliability targets
- Technical stack (indicative)
- Languages: Python, Jav a, Go, Rust
- Cloud provider and orchestration: AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker
- IaC: Terraform, Ansible
- CI/CD and Obs : GitHub Action, ArgoCD, Datadog
Our take
Putting the correct pricing on insurance has always been a challenge for insurers. Pricing too low can decimate profits, but pricing too high is a sure-fire way to drive off customers. Despite this importance of pricing, it has generally remained a human task, and therefore prone to errors and biases.
AKUR8 wants to change this, delivering an AI-based solution that automates pricing modelling for insurers, while maintaining the transparency and control required by regulators. By leveraging machine learning, the platform enhances insurers’ pricing processes, reducing modelling time whilst increasing predictive power.
Recently, AKUR8 has expanded its platform with Rate Repo and Deploy, providing a unified, end-to-end actuarial workflow from model creation to live deployment, and with AKUR8 Discover, integrating AI-driven market and regulatory intelligence from AMatrisk. These tools give insurers a single source of truth for pricing, faster operational deployment, and actionable insights from unstructured filing and competitive data.
Alongside this, the company is backed by some serious funding and a global expansion strategy. And now empowers insurers like AZA, Generalis, cementing its position as a next-generation, end-to-end actuarial platform.
Freddie
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Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Saint-Georges, Paris, France
Leadership
Samuel Falmagne
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked at IBM for over 17 years, holding a range of executive roles, and also served as Head of Sales for Shift Technology.
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