Platform Engineer

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.

About 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. To give a high level picture I can say that 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

We have the mid- to long-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. We are looking for someone who is customer-centric, values-driven, and collaborative with great communication skills.

Requirements

• 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

Nice to have:

• 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 - currently 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.