Backend Engineer, Core Platform

Insify; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Trust and autonomy

Steep learning curve

Opportunity for equity

Welcoming office environment

Job summary

Insify in the Netherlands is looking for a Software Engineer with 3+ years of experience to enhance its GRID platform. The role requires designing and building critical components, focusing on policy issuance and integrations across several jurisdictions.

The ideal candidate will have strong TypeScript and AWS skills, along with a solid foundation in distributed systems and API design. Insify offers a competitive compensation package, trust in your role, and a vibrant team culture.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally with TypeScript and AWS.
• A strong instinct for abstraction and platform design.
• Solid fundamentals in distributed systems and API design.
• Comfort with configuration-driven systems.
• Ownership instinct and clear communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend the GRID platform for policy issuance and renewals.
• Design product configuration systems for easy onboarding.
• Own the policy administration layer to maintain domain model cleanliness.
• Implement underwriting logic for product configurations.
• Partner with Operations and Product to translate requirements.
• Set engineering standards for correctness and configurability.
• Manage incidents affecting GRID's operational health.

Skills

TypeScript

AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB)

Event-driven architecture

API design

Distributed systems

Multi-tenancy

Job description

About Insify

Insurance infrastructure is brutal to get right. Every carrier has its own spec. Every product has its own underwriting rules. Every country has its own regulatory requirements. Most insurers solve this by throwing people and processes at the complexity: one-off integrations, workarounds stacked on workarounds, and systems held together by tribal knowledge. The result is a tech stack that makes every new product slower and harder to launch than the last.

We chose a different path. We built GRID: a configurable insurance platform that absorbs that complexity once, correctly, so that launching a new product or entering a new market is a configuration exercise. Every policy issued, every renewal processed, every carrier integration across NL, FR, DE – and every country we expand into next – runs on it. It is the infrastructure that makes Insify scale.

Insify is a high-growth scale-up backed by €43M from investors like Accel, Munich Re Ventures, and Formula 1 champion Nico Rosberg. In five years, we’ve expanded from the Netherlands into France and Germany, and we're just getting started. Our mission: become the European leader in AI-powered SME insurance.

We aren't just building a company; we're leading a revolution. Our culture is intense, high-stakes, and mission-driven. We hire smart, ambitious "owners" who possess a relentless drive to win. This is an environment for those who thrive on challenges, value intellectual honesty, and share our mindset of becoming a global category leader.

Our founding team consists of seasoned entrepreneurs who have previously built iconic businesses like HelloFresh, Bloomon, and SumUp. We combine that deep fintech and e-commerce expertise with cutting‑edge AI to stay ahead of the curve.

About the role

We're looking for a Software Engineer with 3+ years of experience to join the GRID team and own a critical piece of Insify’s core platform. This is platform engineering at its hardest: turning genuinely complex domain requirements – carrier contracts, regulatory rules, multi-jurisdiction edge cases – into abstractions that are clean, stable, and extensible across five carriers, four products, and six countries. The code you write becomes the foundation that every other team builds on.

It demands a particular kind of engineering mindset. Not the kind that reaches for a model and hopes it generalises, but the kind that can stare at a mess of carrier spec documents, extract the invariants, and design a data model that will hold up for the next three years. The kind that finds elegance in a well‑designed configuration system more satisfying than novelty. The kind that understands that the best platform is one that makes every future problem simpler.

You'll use AI heavily in your daily workflow for coding, debugging, reviewing, generating test cases. But the architecture decisions here are still yours to make. This is one of the places in software where top‑notch human engineering judgment creates outsized leverage, and where getting it wrong is expensive for the entire company.

What you’ll be doing

• Build and extend the GRID platform, Insify's core insurance infrastructure: policy issuance, mid‑term adjustments, renewals, carrier integrations, and the back‑office portal used by Operations daily.
• Design product configuration systems that allow new insurance products (DI, PnC, motor, legal protection) and new carriers to be onboarded without rewriting core logic. The goal: what used to require an engineering project becomes a config change, and you’ll own the architecture that makes that possible.
• Own the policy administration layer that keeps Insify's domain model clean regardless of what's underneath.
• Build renewal and migration tooling at scale: automated renewal workflows, portfolio migrations between systems, and the operational tooling that makes large‑scale policy moves safe and auditable.
• Implement underwriting and product configuration logic: raters, field mappings, underwriting rules, product wordings, and the SPC (Scalable Product Configuration) graph engine that determines what a customer can buy and at what price.
• Partner with Operations, Product, and Insurance to translate carrier spec documents and regulatory requirements into clean, testable platform capabilities.
• Set the engineering bar for the GRID domain: correctness, configurability, observability, and backward compatibility. Platform bugs affect every product and every market at once.
• Own incidents and operational health. When GRID has an issue, operations stops. You treat that responsibility seriously.

What you’ll need

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally with TypeScript and AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, event‑driven architectures).
• A strong instinct for abstraction and platform design. You can identify the right data model and API contract that will hold up across five carriers, four products, and six countries.
• Solid fundamentals in distributed systems, event‑driven architecture, and API design.
• Comfort with multi‑tenancy, configuration‑driven systems, and the complexity that comes from operating in a regulated, multi‑jurisdiction environment.
• Ownership instinct. You think of the platform as yours and take responsibility for its stability and extensibility.
• Clear communicator. You can work with Operations and Insurance to understand a carrier contract and turn it into a system design.
• AI in your workflow. You actively use AI for coding, debugging, and tooling to move faster.

Nice to have

• Experience building insurance, fintech, or SaaS platforms with multi‑tenant product configuration.
• Familiarity with policy administration systems or insurance product configuration.
• Experience launching products into new markets or countries, including regulatory and localisation complexity.
• Background in building internal back‑office platforms used by operational teams.
• Strong observability instincts (Sentry, Datadog) and a track record of operating production systems at scale.

We offer

• Competitive compensation that reflects responsibility and impact.
• Trust and autonomy: you’ll have real ownership and room to make decisions Space to grow and shape your role as Insify evolves.
• A steep learning curve, with support from experienced teammates.
• The opportunity to share in what we’re building, with equity for eligible roles once there’s mutual conviction on fit and impact.
• A welcoming, central Amsterdam HQ where we work closely together: shared lunches, dogs in the office, whiteboards, and fun end‑of‑week drinks.
• An international, ambitious team that enjoys building meaningful things together.