Senior Backend Engineer

Cytora Ltd; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

We are a high-growth Series-B InsurTech start-up using data and machine learning to revolutionize the insurance industry. You will be joining a strong and mission driven team, working to build a customer facing product that fundamentally changes the way insurers evaluate risk, enabling them to move from highly manual workflows to digital risk flows. Cytora's Risk Stream is a serverless and cloud native SaaS platform that automates the digitisation, evaluation and decisioning of risks for commercial insurers. Our product drastically improves the working lives of our users, enables our customers to cover more risks, more competitively.

The Role

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.

Requirements

This role requires experience with:

1. Git (we use GitHub)
2. Python (buzzwords: msgspec, httpx, pydantic, fastapi, structlog, sqlalchemy, alembic, jinja2, pytest, ruff, mypy)
3. Mypy (we use mypy, a lot. We also welcome candidates with experience with other static type checkers!)
4. Rest APIs
5. Relational Databases (we use Postgres)
6. Docker (we use Docker to package our code, and docker-compose to run it locally)
7. 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

This role benefits from experience with:

1. Redis
2. 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)

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

Benefits

• Stock options
• Enhanced parental leave
• Private health insurance - UK only*
• Choice of laptop
• Flexi-working
• £2000 travel budget
• Company trips

*We employ people across the UK and Europe (In Spain, Austria and Ireland we are using a 3rd party Employer of Record model), and inevitably the benefits that we can offer vary slightly in different territories, due to local employment law and feasibility. Our salary range does not vary depending on territory.

Location

Cytora are a remote-first company. For this role you can be based anywhere in the UK or EU provided you 1. have fluent spoken and written English, and 2. have the permanent right to work without requiring visa sponsorship.

Equal Opportunities

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.