Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Simply Business; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading InsurTech company based in London is looking for a Senior ML Engineer to develop their class-leading data and ML platform. The role requires strong expertise in Python and a proactive mindset, with responsibilities including infrastructure development, collaboration with data scientists, and mentoring of less experienced engineers. The company offers a great work-life balance with hybrid working arrangements and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Flexible parental leave

Private medical insurance

Learning budget

Pension contribution match

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in developing machine learning platforms.
• Strong technical communication skills for diverse audiences.
• Capability of mentoring Junior and Mid-Level Engineers.

Responsibilities

• Develop data and ML platform infrastructure.
• Maintain real-time model serving infrastructure.
• Collaborate closely with data scientists to scale models.

Skills

Polyglot programming

Expertise in Python

Communication skills

Mentorship

Proactivity

Tools

Kafka

Docker

Apache Flink

Airflow

Databricks

Job description

Overview

Here's what you'll be doing: Are you ready to shape the future of InsurTech with cutting-edge machine learning and AI? At Simply Business, we continuously evolve our platform with technologies like AWS, Snowflake, and Kafka to drive real value and inform company strategy. As a leading player in the market, our mission is to remain at the forefront of data engineering, ML, and AI thinking, and we need a Senior ML Engineer who shares that ambition.

We\'re looking for someone who is:

• A polyglot programmer, with expertise in Python and a genuine enthusiasm for picking up new languages like Kotlin and Rust.
• An excellent communicator, capable of clearly conveying complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Proactive in suggesting innovative tools, architectural improvements, processes, and emerging technologies.
• Collaborative and a pleasure to work with, possessing strong interpersonal skills and thriving in an open, friendly, and distributed team.
• Comfortable mentoring and guiding Junior and Mid-Level Engineers, sharing your expertise and fostering growth.
• A reliable "go-to" person for tackling and resolving complex technical challenges.

Responsibilities

• Be hands-on in developing and continuously evolving our class-leading data and ML platform infrastructure, balancing maintenance with exciting greenfield projects.
• Develop and maintain our real-time model serving infrastructure, utilising technologies such as Kafka, Python, Docker, Apache Flink, Airflow, and Databricks.
• Collaborate closely with data scientists to operationalise and scale diverse models, from gradient boosting to Gen AI.
• Debug and optimise production deployments using tools like MLFlow for experiment tracking, and ensure models are stable, performant, and reliable in a production environment.
• Gain a deep understanding of Simply Business\'s wider data ecosystem to build efficient and scalable machine learning systems.
• Work collaboratively within a friendly international team, where your ideas are valued, and you have ample opportunities to grow, explore, and contribute.
• Be part of an agile environment, contributing ideas and helping to prioritise technical work, with the flexibility to switch between office and remote working.

Note: (We know it\'s tough, but please try to avoid the confidence gap. You don\'t have to match all the bullet points above to be considered for this role.)

About Simply Business

We insure small businesses and enable big dreams - not just for our customers, but for our people and communities too. With over 1,000,000 active insurance policies, we protect builders, bakers, landlords and more than 1,200 other trades.

We\'re a technology company as well as one that sells insurance. That means we build, we fail, we learn and we improve. We\'re a B Corp too, which recognises our strong track record of having a positive impact on people, society and the environment.

Benefits

We offer a great work-life balance with hybrid work. Highlights include:

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) with option to buy five more days.
• Flexible parental leave: six months full pay to the primary caregiver; four weeks full pay if secondary caregiver.
• Life event leave: an extra day every two years for moments like moving house or birthdays.
• Two-week paid sabbatical after five years; four weeks off after ten years.
• Private medical insurance through BUPA and a health cash plan.
• Competitive salary and potential annual bonus.
• Learning budget, mental health support, and access to a dedicated learning platform.
• Pension contribution match up to five percent and life assurance (four times basic salary, up to ten times with the scheme).
• Salary sacrifice car scheme and flexible benefits for options like critical illness, dental, travel, and gym membership.

Ready to join us and drive our success as a high-performing team? Apply today.