Backend Engineer

• Join a backend functional team of 4-5 people that works independently. • Prototype, implement, ship, and support features that are changing the insurance industry. • Work on the core product to digitize risks, relying heavily on Generative AI. • Be part of engineering and product teams distributed across Europe.

• Have experience with Git and GitHub. • Have experience with Python including msgspec, httpx, pydantic, fastapi, structlog, sqlalchemy, alembic, jinja2, pytest, ruff, and mypy. • Have experience with mypy or other static type checkers. • Have experience with REST APIs and OpenAPI spec documentation. • Have experience with relational databases, specifically Postgres. • Have experience with Docker and docker-compose for packaging and running code locally. • Have experience with AWS Lambda for deploying backend code. • Have experience with AWS S3, RDS, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, and SES. • Have fluent spoken and written English. • Have the permanent right to work in the UK or Ireland without requiring visa sponsorship.

• Have experience with Redis. • Have experience with GCP VertexAI and Gemini. • Have experience with GCP BigQuery for analytics. • Have experience with OCR engines such as AWS Textract, GDocAI, or TesseractOCR. • Have experience with prompt engineering. • Have experience with Kubernetes. • Have experience with CircleCI. • Have experience with DataDog. • Have experience with Auth0 and Role Based Access Control. • Have experience with JsonSchema. • Have experience with Pusher for push notifications. • Have experience with LocalStack for mocking AWS services locally. • Have experience with Terraform.

• Join a small backend functional team with a technical lead and product owner. • Prototype new features and solutions. • Implement and ship production-ready code. • Support features that are changing the insurance industry. • Work on digitizing risks using Generative AI. • Collaborate with distributed engineering and product teams 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. • Enjoy flexible working and remote options from anywhere in the UK or Ireland. • Access a professional development budget and conference access. • Participate in 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 is driving smarter decisions, greater efficiency, and seamless collaboration across the global insurance ecosystem. Cytora fosters a culture that values diversity and celebrates the uniqueness each person brings to work, believing flexibility fuels performance.