Senior/Leading Software Engineer (f/m/d/x)

EMIL Group; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly model

30 days holiday

Training budget €500+

Urban Sports Club subsidy

Company pension scheme

VSOP programme

Modern hardware (Windows or iOS)

Weekly company lunches

Snack bar availability

Job summary

EMIL Group is building a cloud-native insurance platform in Berlin. We seek a Senior/Leading Software Engineer to design core platform services, architect scalable microservices on AWS, and shape APIs and data models for complex insurance products.

You will mentor peers and drive modernization with AI-assisted tooling. You will collaborate with Product and Solution Architects to translate business requirements into robust, maintainable platform capabilities, while championing quality and

Qualifications

• Strong experience building complex production systems or platform services.
• Comfort designing distributed systems and service architectures.
• Experience with Golang, Python, and/or Node.js / TypeScript.
• Hands‑on experience running systems on modern cloud infrastructure (AWS).
• Familiarity with microservices, containers, and CI/CD pipelines.
• A strong focus on system design, data modeling, and long-term maintainability.
• Regular use of AI tools as part of the engineering workflow with ownership of correctness.
• Clear communication and a collaborative mindset when working with engineering, product, and customer teams.
• Curiosity and enjoyment in tackling complex problems without predefined playbooks.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core platform services for a cloud-native insurance system.
• Architect scalable, reliable microservices running on AWS container infrastructure.
• Design APIs, metadata models, and workflows for complex insurance products.
• Help shape systems that are structured and versioned for safe automation and AI workflows.
• Use modern AI-assisted development tools to accelerate design, coding, and testing.
• Collaborate with Product, Customer Delivery, and Solution Architects to translate requirements into platform capabilities.
• Review code and mentor other engineers to strengthen engineering fundamentals.
• Continuously improve platform architecture, infrastructure, and developer productivity.

Skills

Golang

Python

Node.js / TypeScript

AWS

Microservices

CI/CD

System design

Data modeling

Mentoring

Team collaboration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

YOUR ROLE

We are building a cloud-native insurance platform designed for a future where humans and AI collaborate to create, configure, and operate insurance products.

Insurance systems are traditionally complex, rigid, and difficult to change. Our mission is to make them structured, versioned, and programmable so that product teams, engineers, and eventually AI systems can work with them safely and efficiently.

As a Senior / Leading Software Engineer (f/m/d/x) AI-Enabled Insurance Platform, you will help design and build the core platform capabilities that power this vision. You will work on distributed systems, platform architecture, and developer tooling that enable teams and customers to build insurance products faster while maintaining correctness, transparency, and reliability.

This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, domain modeling, and AI-enabled software development.

What You Will Be Challenged With

• Design and build core platform services for a cloud-native insurance system
• Architect scalable, reliable microservices running on AWS container infrastructure
• Design APIs, metadata models, and workflows that support complex insurance products
• Help shape systems that are structured and versioned, enabling safe automation and future AI-assisted workflows
• Use modern AI-assisted development tools to accelerate design, coding, and testing
• Collaborate with Product, Customer Delivery, and Solution Architects to turn complex business requirements into robust platform capabilities
• Review code and mentor other engineers, contributing to a culture of strong engineering fundamentals and continuous learning
• Continuously improve our platform architecture, infrastructure, and developer productivity

What We Are Looking For

• Strong experience building complex production systems or platform services
• Comfort designing distributed systems and service architectures
• Experience with Golang, Python, and/or Node.js / TypeScript
• Hands‑on experience running systems on modern cloud infrastructure (AWS or similar)
• Familiarity with microservices, containers, and CI/CD pipelines
• A strong focus on system design, data modeling, and long-term maintainability
• Regular use of AI tools as part of the engineering workflow, while maintaining full ownership of system correctness
• Clear communication and a collaborative mindset when working with engineering, product, and customer teams
• Curiosity and enjoyment in tackling complex problems without predefined playbooks

Nice to Know: Our Tech-Stack:

• AWS cloud infrastructure
• Containerized microservices architecture
• gRPC and event-driven communication
• Golang, Python, Node.js / TypeScript
• React-based administrative interfaces

What We Offer

• An attractive salary package based on your experience, qualifications and responsibilities
• A remote-friendly working model with occasional trips to our Berlin office
• 30 days of holiday leave, plus extra half-days off on 24 and 31 December
• A personal training budget of at least €500, or more if necessary, which we will invest together in your further development
• Exciting opportunities for internal development through a fixed role development model, fixed feedback cycles and performance reviews.
• A company subsidy for Urban Sports Club membership to support your well-being outside of work
• A generously subsidised company pension scheme, which we use to work together to make optimal provisions for your future
• A VSOP programme that lets you benefit from the company's success additionally
• We provide you with modern hardware; you decide whether you want Windows or iOS
• With weekly company lunches and a well-stocked snack bar, everything you need for a quick bite to eat is right there
• As part of a dynamic and motivated team of experts, you benefit directly from the knowledge of your colleagues, because team spirit and mutual support are an essential part of our culture

WHAT'S NEXT?

If you application impresses us, we will contact you to arrange an initial interview with our HR manager.

About Us

EMIL Group is an Insurtech founded in Berlin in 2016, which offers innovative SaaS-solutions for the insurance industry. The global Insurtech Market was valued at 9,4 billion USD already in 2020 (Projection for 2030: 158,9 billion USD) – and we are part of that revolution! Our software enables insurers to master the shift into the digital age, thereby driving forward the insurance industry's technological disruption. We are a team of experienced founders (e.g., WHU, Rocket Internet), insurance- (e.g., wefox), and software experts (e.g., Google, Amazon).