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
You will be helping to build Cytora’s Underwriting Productivity Suite, a serverless based web application that increases the efficiency and effectiveness of underwriters thereby reducing expense ratios and delivering profitable growth to our customers
More specifically, you will be joining the platform team, which is responsible for the infrastructure of our application, our monitoring systems and our CI/CD pipelines. We:
Have single and multi tenant deployments across Europe, United States and Australia
Have infrastructure deployed on AWS and GCP
Manage our infrastructure as code, using terraform
Use third party systems such us circleci, datadog, auth0, thoughspot
Have the mid-term requirement to scale, and the short-term requirement to deliver really fast, so this engineer will need to have good intuition on the level of complexity our systems need.
Along with core technical skills, we are excited about colleagues who bring passion for the craft of inventing and building products from the ground up
This means providing feedback to product managers and the wider company, contributing to roadmaps, and bringing your creativity to bear by suggesting features and improvements based on your technical understanding of what is possible and needed.
Requirements:
We are looking for someone who is customer-centric, values-driven, and collaborative with great communication skills
Strong experience using a range of AWS services but not limited to: RDS Aurora Postgres, APIGW, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, SES, Cloudfront, Secret Manager, Certificate Manager
Experience building and maintaining multi-region deployments
Experience using an OOP language, we use Python
Experience using Terraform
Knowledge of networking fundamentals, including VPC configuration and security
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
Nice to haves:
ECS and Fargate are a plus
Experience designing both single tenancy and multi tenancy solutions
Experience building and maintaining Kubernetes clusters using AWS EKS
Maintaining CI/CD pipelines (we use CircleCI)
Monitoring, we use Datadog logs, APMs, profiling, App security
Prior experience using GCP is a plus, but not essential
Awareness of GDPR compliant systems
Experience building event-driven, serverless applications
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 EU (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.