Mid Level Backend Engineer, Cytora

Salary not provided

Stock options available

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Redis

Postgres

Terraform

BigQuery

Git

REST API

FastAPI

Pydantic

Datadog

Mid level

Remote in EU, UK

More information about location

Configurable platform enabling commercial insurers to create digital workflows

Be an early applicant

Configurable platform enabling commercial insurers to create digital workflows

21-100 employees

FintechB2BEnterpriseInsurance

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

Stock options available

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Redis

Postgres

Terraform

BigQuery

Git

REST API

FastAPI

Pydantic

Datadog

Mid level

Remote in EU, UK

More information about location

21-100 employees

FintechB2BEnterpriseInsurance

Company mission

Cytora's mission is to transform insurance by helping insurers generate fairer premiums and enabling society at large to transfer risk in new and seamless ways.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

This role requires experience with:
Git (we use GitHub)
Python (buzzwords: msgspec, httpx, pydantic, fastapi, structlog, sqlalchemy, alembic, jinja2, pytest, ruff, mypy)
Mypy (we use mypy, a lot. We also welcome candidates with experience with other static type checkers!)
Rest APIs
Relational Databases (we use Postgres)
Docker (we use Docker to package our code, and docker-compose to run it locally)
AWS, and more specifically with:
AWS S3
AWS Lambda (The vast majority of our backend code is deployed as AWS Lambda functions)
AWS API Gateway
AWS SQS
AWS SNS
AWS STEP Functions
Must have fluent spoken and written English

Desirable

This role benefits from experience with:
Redis
GCP, and more specifically with:
GCP BigQuery (we use it to power our analytics)
OCR engines (we use AWS Textract, GDocAI, and we have used tesseractOCR in the past)
Prompt Engineering
Weaviate (we use it for RAG in LLM powered tasks and for hybrid searches)
Kubernetes (we run Weaviate and other specific services* on Kubernetes)
CircleCI
DataDog
Auth0 (we use it, but we would rather not have to :face_exhaling:)
Role Based Access Control
JsonSchema
Pusher (we use it to push notifications to our Frontend Web App)
LocalStack (we use it to mock AWS services locally)
Terraform

What the job involves

As backend engineer at Cytora, you will be joining a backend functional team. As such, the teams are small (maximum 4/5 people) and work independently of each other
Each team has a technical lead and a product owner steering the team to make sure we deliver the right features. Regardless of team you join, you will be prototyping, implementing, shipping and supporting features that are changing the insurance industry
The core of our product is to digitize risks and to accomplish that we rely heavily on Generative AI. Our engineering and product teams are distributed across Europe

Our take

Insurance is vital to the economy, giving businesses the confidence to realise their ambitions in the face of uncertainty, but the underlying systems that insurance is built on are broken. Cytora is creating new foundations for insurance by providing insurers with the building blocks they need to deliver efficient, accurate underwriting and seamless customer experiences.

Cytora's platform enables risk submissions to be digitised, consistently evaluated using internal and external data sources and automatically processed for underwriting decision making. This means that risks can be digitally processed, maximising automation levels and delivering enhanced control over risk selection.

Cytora recently partnered with global specialist insurer Beazley, which follows a series of recent milestones for Cytora, including partnerships with Allianz, Markel and Ecclesiastical. The company is eyeing the US for its next expansion strategy.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

47% female employees

35% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.2)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Apr 2019

$31.6m

SERIES B

Dec 2017

$5.6m

EARLY VC

Total funding: $40.1m

Company benefits

Enhanced parental leave when having, adopting or fostering a child
33 days holiday (incl. bank holidays)
Remote-first
Work abroad budget - £2000 for every Cytorian each year, empowering and encouraging us to work beyond our regular spaces
Share options
Flexible hours
£1500 L&D budget
Home office budget
Vitality private healthcare 🇬🇧

Company HQ

Barbican, London, UK

Leadership

Richard Hartley

(CEO)

Leads business strategy. Previously product strategist at eBaoTech, a cloud technology vendor to the insurance industry.

Aeneas Wiener

(CTO)

Leads engineering and data science. Has a highly technical PhD from Imperial, giving him the skills required to price commercial risk.

People progressing

Dimitra Marmaropoulou

Dimitra joined Cytora as a Junior Software Engineer in February 2022 before earning promotion to Software Engineer

Sam Lewis

Sam joined as Business Agility Director in 2019 before progressing to VP Product in 2022

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