Software Engineer (Python)
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Job description
Prima's Pricing and Underwriting technology streamlines the creation and updating of insurance tariffs, automating routine tasks and reducing the time for introducing new tariffs. It eliminates manual, repetitive work from the process and offers scalability and flexibility. It enables easy access to high-quality data and provides tools for troubleshooting and explaining pricing behavior. This technology empowers Pricing Data Scientists and Underwriters, resulting in significant time savings and enhanced efficiency. It has a positive impact on Customer Service Agents and Intermediaries, ultimately improving the experience and providing great prices for Prima's end customers. What You'll Do
- Take the lead in developing the tools, microservices and infrastructure for our pricing and underwriting projects
- Work in a dynamic team of engineers within the Pricing Domain, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support
- Collaborate closely with product managers and our stakeholders, including data scientists, to deliver high-quality pricing solutions
- Grow, read, stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, tools, and trends to ensure Prima remains at the cutting edge of insurance technology
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in software development with Python
- Strong knowledge of software design and architecture
- Proficiency in software development practices like TDD and BDD, ensuring our code is marked by quality, readability, and maintainability
- Passion for programming, willingness to explore new technologies, and a commitment to coding best practices
- Practical Knowledge of CI/CD, IaC, containerization technologies
- Experience working with messaging/streaming platforms (e.g. Kafka, RabbitMQ) and designing relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL)
- Strong English communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams
Nice-to-Have
- Practical Knowledge of Rust/Elixir
- Proficiency in cloud-based systems (preferably AWS)
- Previous experience with data orchestration tools and frameworks (preferably Databricks)
- Familiarity with Domain Driven Design
- Experience in infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi), container orchestration (e.g. K8s, Knative) and Service mesh
- Experience in ML, MLOps or Data science
- Previous exposure to insurance or pricing related fields
Please, keep in mind that we are evaluating mid and senior-level profiles.
Benefits & conditions
We want to make Prima a happy and empowering place to work. So if you decide to join us, you can expect plenty of perks. Work Your Way: Enjoy full flexibility - work from home, the office or a mix of both. Plus, work from anywhere for up to 30 days a year. Grow with us: We may move fast at Prima, but we move together. Get access to learning resources, mentorship and a growth plan tailored to you. Thrive and perform: Your best work begins when you feel your best. Enjoy private healthcare, gym discounts, wellbeing programs and mental health support.
About the company
At Prisma, we are building the data layer for modern applications. If you are fascinated by the leading-edge architecture and technology used in today’s data-intensive, highly scalable software systems, with distributed graph data on a massive scale, but you want the energy, challenges, and freedom that come with working in a small startup, then a job at Prisma might be for you.
With funding from top-tier investors Amplify Partners and Kleiner Perkins, we are a small, distributed team working on making the advanced data infrastructure developed by large tech companies accessible to all application developers around the world. Our hard work is paying off, with adoption and implementation of Prisma by some of the most successful and interesting companies out there today, and the fun is just beginning!