Senior Backend Engineer, Sprout.ai
£74-104k
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1-2 days a week in office
AI powered fraud filtering and claims automation for insurance
Open for applications
AI powered fraud filtering and claims automation for insurance
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£74-104k
+ Share options
1-2 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To unlock the future of insurance, solving fraud detection and claims automation, while empowering insurers to deliver amazing customer experiences.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for an engineer passionate about developer enablement and infrastructure as code, who is eager to expand their expertise by contributing to impactful product features
- You'll play a key role in improving the lives of millions of insurance policyholders globally, working with a modern and powerful technology stack that includes:
- Python for application development
- Terraform for AWS infrastructure provisioning
- Kubernetes (with Helm and Flux) for managing services
- GitLab for CI/CD and version control
- AWS as our infrastructure platform
- PostgreSQL for application data and event sourcing architecture
- Apache Flink for real-time service interactions and state management
- Strong experience working in fully cloud-hosted environments (e.g., AWS) along with Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks (e.g., Terraform) and Kubernetes
- Strong proficiency in software architecture using Python or similar backend programming languages
- Solid RDBMS experience, preferably with PostgreSQL
- Experience building RESTful APIs (e.g. FastAPI) and real-time data processing pipelines
- Bonus points for experience with Apache Flink and Flux
- Deep understanding of modern software development lifecycles, including code quality, pull requests, code reviews, CI/CD, QA, and production releases in an agile, fast-paced environment
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to think critically and creatively
- Collaborative by nature, with excellent communication and teamwork abilities
- Self-motivated, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability
What the job involves
- As a team, we're driven by a relentless focus on delivering real value to customers at speed
- We embrace modern engineering practices such as automated testing, continuous monitoring, feature flags, and on-demand production-like environments to support frequent, reliable releases
- Deploying all changes, including complex machine learning models, reliably to customers within 15 minutes
- Building a real-time, configuration-driven platform that seamlessly adapts to diverse customer needs
- Ensuring autoscaling and cost-efficient model serving in production, with robust support for ML monitoring and experimentation
- Centralised reporting/metrics for both the business and our customers
- Work with different stakeholders across the business like engineers, product, engagement team to understand a problem space within your area, propose solutions, and own the end to end delivery of complex projects
- Own and maintain specific parts of our stack with best in class engineering practices
- Write comprehensive unit, integration and end-to-end automated tests in the backend for customer-facing features
- Lead on platform-facing work, using infrastructure-as-code (AWS, terraform, k8s) to ensure our platform is reliable and scalable
- Take a lead in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and keep to date with latest trends in the industry
- Provide mentoring to other members of the Engineering and Data Science teams
- Lead in the continuous improvement of the processes and ways of working for the engineering team
- Manage feature rollouts with multiple releases per day by utilising feature flags, metrics, logs and alerting
- Champion the Engineering and Sprout company values
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Sprout.ai is an advanced claims automation solution harnessing the power of contextual AI to revolutionise the insurance claims experience for global insurers and their consumers. The AI engine is a tool that the claim handler uses and drives in order to aid decision-making and to triage and process claims better and faster, reducing the time taken to process individual claims from 30 days to just 24 hours.
The huge time saving it offers has helped the company attract attention from a number of large insurers across the world, including Zurich. It now has deployments across three continents, including Europe, South America and APAC.
Sprout.ai’s proprietary technology is an industry first and is bringing much needed modernity to an industry that has classically been slowed down by workflow problems and stunted communication.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2024
$1.8m
EARLY VC
Oct 2023
$6.9m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $22.4m
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Raphael Guth
(Head of Operations)Former Senior Marketing Executive at Charles Tyrwhitt and co-founder of Morph Technology.
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