Senior Backend Engineer

• Join Cytora (now an Applied Systems company) as a Senior Backend Engineer, transforming how insurers and brokers connect, operate, and grow through an AI-powered platform. • Work in a small backend functional team of 4–5 people that works independently, prototyping, implementing, shipping, and supporting features that are changing the insurance industry. • Build on a core product that digitises risks, relying heavily on Generative AI including Google Gemini. • Work fully remote from anywhere in the UK or Ireland.

• Have experience with Git and GitHub. • Be proficient in Python including libraries such as msgspec, httpx, pydantic, FastAPI, structlog, SQLAlchemy, alembic, jinja2, pytest, ruff, and mypy. • Have strong experience with mypy or other static type checkers. • Have experience building REST APIs with OpenAPI spec documentation. • Have experience with relational databases, specifically PostgreSQL. • Have experience with Docker for packaging code and docker-compose for local development. • Have experience with AWS Lambda for deploying backend code. • Have experience with AWS S3, RDS, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, and SES.

• Have experience with Redis. • Bring experience with GCP Vertex AI and Gemini for generative AI workloads. • Have experience with GCP BigQuery for analytics. • Bring experience with OCR engines such as AWS Textract, Google Document AI, or Tesseract OCR. • Have experience with prompt engineering. • Bring experience with Kubernetes, CircleCI, DataDog, Auth0, role-based access control, JSON Schema, Pusher, LocalStack, or Terraform.

• Prototype, implement, ship, and support features within a small, independent backend functional team. • Work on digitising risks for the insurance industry using Generative AI. • Build and maintain backend services deployed as AWS Lambda functions. • Collaborate with a technical lead and product owner to deliver the right features. • Contribute to an engineering team distributed across Europe.

Do you want to work alongside some of the smartest ML, AI and software engineers in a supportive environment? Do you want to have a global positive impact on an essential insurance industry, want to truly learn as much as possible and sharpen your skills? Founded in 2014 in Cambridge, we believe Cytora is the perfect company if you want to work in one of the leading digital risk processing platforms in the world. With Cytora, global insurers such as Allianz, Beazley, and Chubb can digitise risk data at scale, turning unstructured information into structured, decision-ready formats. This helps them be more specific in measuring risk and providing insurance they feel comfortable with. In case you want to help the insurance industry measure better and more efficiently while working with some of the smartest people in the space, then Cytora is the place to be.

• Receive a competitive salary. • Work fully remote from anywhere in the UK or Ireland with flexible working options. • Access a professional development budget and conference attendance. • Attend annual company retreats. • Join a mission-driven culture that puts people first.

Cytora, now an Applied Systems company, is transforming how insurers and brokers connect, operate, and grow. The AI-powered platform drives smarter decisions, greater efficiency, and seamless collaboration across the global insurance ecosystem. The core product digitises risks using Generative AI, and engineering and product teams are distributed across Europe.