[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer @Cytora.com
Mar 14, 2025 - Cytora.com is hiring a remote Senior Backend Engineer. đź’¸ Salary: unspecified. đź“ŤLocation: Europe, UK.
Role Description
As backend engineer at Cytora, you will be joining a backend functional team. As such, the teams are small (maximum 4/5 people) and work independently of each other.
- Each team has a technical lead and a product owner steering the team to make sure we deliver the right features.
- You will be prototyping, implementing, shipping and supporting features that are changing the insurance industry.
- The core of our product is to digitize risks and to accomplish that we rely heavily on Generative AI.
- Our engineering and product teams are distributed across Europe.
Qualifications
- Experience with Git (we use GitHub)
- Experience with Python (buzzwords: msgspec, httpx, pydantic, fastapi, structlog, sqlalchemy, alembic, jinja2, pytest, ruff, mypy)
- Experience with Mypy (we use mypy, a lot. We also welcome candidates with experience with other static type checkers!)
- Experience with Rest APIs
- Experience with Relational Databases (we use Postgres)
- Experience with Docker (we use Docker to package our code, and docker-compose to run it locally)
- Experience with AWS, and more specifically with:
- AWS S3
- AWS Lambda (The vast majority of our backend code is deployed as AWS Lambda functions)
- AWS API Gateway
- AWS SQS
- AWS SNS
- AWS STEP Functions
Requirements
- This role benefits from experience with:
- Redis
- GCP, and more specifically with:
- GCP BigQuery (we use it to power our analytics)
- OCR engines (we use AWS Textract, GDocAI, and we have used tesseractOCR in the past)
- Prompt Engineering
- Weaviate (we use it for RAG in LLM powered tasks and for hybrid searches)
- Kubernetes (we run Weaviate and other specific services on Kubernetes)
- CircleCI
- DataDog
- Auth0 (we use it, but we would rather not have to)
- Role Based Access Control
- JsonSchema
- Pusher (we use it to push notifications to our Frontend Web App)
- LocalStack (we use it to mock AWS services locally)
- Terraform
Benefits
- Stock options
- Enhanced parental leave
- Private health insurance - UK only
- Choice of laptop
- Flexi-working
- ÂŁ2000 travel budget
- Company trips
Location
Cytora are a remote-first company. For this role you can be based anywhere in the UK or EU provided you:
- Have fluent spoken and written English
- 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.
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Salary
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unspecified
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Remote
Location
Europe, UK
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Mar 14, 2025
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| đź“Ť | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: Europe, UK |
| ‼ | Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more. |
