[Hiring] Senior Backend Software Engineer @Verisk

Role Description

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our backend engineering team and help build the APIs and workflows behind the next generation of our client-facing technology. This is a hands-on engineering role with meaningful ownership. You will write production Python, make technical decisions, and take work from early design through deployment and ongoing improvement. You will also have the opportunity to use AI-assisted development pragmatically to improve how you build, test, and deliver software.

If you enjoy solving substantial backend engineering problems and want your work to support products with a clear real-world purpose, this is an opportunity to do that within the stability and scale of Verisk.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to:

• Own meaningful backend engineering work rather than simply receiving development tasks.
• Build production Python and Django services that support client-facing technology.
• Influence engineering decisions around architecture, security, reliability, testing, and maintainability.
• Work closely with product, QA, platform, and engineering colleagues throughout the full software lifecycle.
• Help evolve how the team develops software through automation, modern engineering practices, and responsible use of AI-assisted development.
• Apply your engineering skills to data and technology designed to help organizations understand complex global risks.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial software engineering experience building and supporting backend services in production.
• Strong hands-on Python development experience.
• Production experience with Django, including its request lifecycle, ORM, migrations, configuration, and testing practices.
• Experience designing maintainable APIs and backend systems using sound REST, data modeling, and relational database practices.
• Good knowledge of authentication and authorization, including common single sign-on patterns and secure API design.
• Experience with automated testing, peer code review, continuous integration, and delivery practices.
• Experience diagnosing application, database, networking, or performance issues in live environments.
• An understanding of cloud-hosted applications and infrastructure as code, ideally within AWS.
• A strong understanding of backend security risks and how to address them throughout the software development lifecycle.
• The judgment to explain technical trade-offs clearly and work effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues.

Requirements

• FastAPI or another modern Python API framework.
• PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Docker, Celery, Redis, or Sentry.
• AWS services and cloud-native application development.
• Asynchronous or event-driven processing.
• AWS CDK, Terraform, or comparable infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Scrum or Kanban within an agile product engineering environment.
• Product-led, data-rich, or B2B software environments.

Benefits

• Medical coverage.
• Life insurance.
• Pension plans.
• Paid time off in line with local labor laws.
• Wellness initiatives and fitness programs.
• Team-building activities.