Senior Software Engineer

Akur8 is a young, dynamic, fast growing Insurtech scale-up that is transforming insurance pricing and reserving with transparent machine learning.

Our SaaS platform leverages the power of transparent machine learning and predictive analytics to inject game-changing speed, performance and reliability into insurers’ pricing and reserving processes.

Powered by skilled R&D, Product & Actuarial teams we’ve developed unique AI algorithms that automate the insurance pricing and reserving in an unprecedented manner.

This results in a pricing solution that enables insurance companies to model risks 10 times faster with greater predictive power than traditional methods, whilst including next-generation reserving features, offering an end-to-end platform that anticipates and accounts for future claims.

Akur8 has already been selected:

• In CB Insights Top 50 World Insurtech Companies 2024

• In Insurtech Global’s Top 100 AIFinTech list 2024

• In Fintech Global’s Top 100 AIFinTech list 2024

• In CNBC’s World Top 150 Insurtech Companies 2024

With 42 nationalities on our team and offices in 8 major global cities, Akur8’s solution is international by design, serving over 320 clients across 4 continents, and focusing on mature markets to drive faster growth.

To learn more about Akur8, and what we do, click here.

Akur8 is, in all senses of the term, an equal opportunities employer. Akur8 puts diversity, equality and inclusion at the heart of its values. We examine all applications based on equal skills and applying the principles of non-discrimination.

We’re looking for a Software Engineer that has a strong interest in both cloud-computing & Machine Learning in order to help build our complex SAAS solution alongside our world-class tech teams.

Our Technical Leads will form feature teams - consisting of Frontend Software Engineers, Backend Software Engineers , Product Managers & Product Designers.

You will have the opportunity to be part of a newly formed engineering team focusing on a new product. This team will be responsible for building a new cloud-native product from the ground up, presenting an exciting technical challenge. You will leverage cutting-edge technologies and architectural patterns to create a scalable, resilient, and efficient solution that meets the evolving needs of our clients in the insurance industry.

As a Software Engineer you’ll:

• Be one of the technical references for technical subjects such as architecture and guidelines;

• Work with our Product & Design teams to turn our vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter

• Maintain, evolve and evangelise Akur8’s software development best practices (clean Code, automation test, reliability) to engineers, making sure that they are followed

• Design and build complex systems, focusing on performance, scalability, security, as well as crafting an attractive user experience

• Testing as a part of the development process through unit, integration and E2E tests;

• Collaborate with other engineers to deliver our machine learning pipelines.

Our technology stack:

• Amazon AWS (and numerous AWS services)

• C#, Python, .NET

• Entity Framework

• Angular

• PostgreSQL

• Kubernetes

• .NET Aspire

• SignalR

• Github

Skills we are seeking:

• Strong Python skills

• Comfortable turning actuarial, financial, or mathematical concepts into robust, scalable Python code

• Experience with AWS and its services

Demonstrate strong python development experience:

• Clean, modular, testable code

• Experience with packaging, virtual environments, and dependency management

• Understanding of functional and object-oriented design patterns

• Vectorized computing (NumPy/Pandas)

• Parallelism/multithreading for heavy actuarial models

• NumPy for numerical operations

• Polars or Pandas for data manipulation and wrangling

• Statsmodels for statistical modeling

• Scikit-learn for ML workflow fundamentals (pipelines, cross-validation, metrics)

• SciPy for numerical optimization and interpolation

• Familiar with non-life reserving workflows, and advanced statistical modeling

• Understanding of loss reserve triangles, claims development, cohorts

• Ability to translate actuarial formulas into optimized Python modules

• Understanding of claims-level datasets

• Policy exposure aggregation

• Actuarial data structures (triangles, severity/frequency data, etc.)

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: What will this person do on a day to day basis?

• Implement new actuarial requirements as Python functions

• Review and optimize existing python functions as necessary

• Provide unit tests around all Python capabilities

• Work with subject matter experts to research, prototype, and develop new actuarial approaches

• Support actuarial data analytics by building reusable analysis functions

• Help develop visualization components for actuarial results and diagnostics

Candidates must be team players with excellent interpersonal skills. They must also have solid, proven experience architecting and building commercial quality business software applications, and a proven track record of development targeting Amazon AWS cloud operating systems.

We're looking for an innovative and rigorous mind that has a solid technical background and a track record of helping their team grow, possessing the following attributes :

• A minimum of 5 years postgraduate experience as a Python Developer;

• Experience with modern web frameworks, Angular preferred;

• Knowledge of data structures and related algorithms and their implementation in code & databases;

• Strong technical experience, especially with Microsoft development tools;

• Strong hands-on experience building cloud based solutions targeting AWS;

• Experienced with multiple design patterns;

• Good communication skills and a will to share your knowledge with your team;

• Ability to produce good quality code and a good knowledge of software development best practices;

• Aptitude for mathematics, with the ability to understand and implement statistical and financial calculations;

• Excellent English skills, and ability to write and speak clearly and effectively;

• Ability to work independently;
  

Additional bonus skills:

• 2+ years of prior experience of backend projects in C#/.NET or similar;

• Knowledge of database design in MSSQL or PostgreSQL;

• Experience with micro service architecture.

• Experience with Kubernetes.

As a newcomer, you'll be joining a diverse, highly skilled and motivated team, with a strong Tech DNA, colleagues that are eager to share their knowledge and passion.

But it’s not all work, you’ll also be part of a dynamic team that enjoys spending time together and having fun.

In addition to this, we will provide you with:

• Competitive salary + annual bonus

• Health insurance , Dental and Vision coverage

• Retirement Savings Plan

• Generous vacation policy

• Commuter benefit

• Gym membership via ClassPass

• IT equipment allowance

Additional benefits:

• Professional development & trainings

• Team fun: regular company gatherings and team events

• Fun goodies.