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Zurich, Zurich, CH

Backend Software Engineer for iptiQ EMEA P&C (80 - 100%) 
 

About iptiQ
 

iptiQ is a risk tech start-up within Swiss Re Group. Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime.

iptiQ provides digital, bespoke and transparent L&H and P&C protection products in a B2B2C manner. Founded in 2014, we're transforming the way consumers buy insurance with a unique digital insurance engine which incorporates the latest technology with world-class underwriting capabilities. We build strong partnerships to sell insurance via trusted brands.

iptiQ offers a flexible working environment where curious and adaptable people thrive. Are you interested in joining us?

About the role

As a Backend Software Engineer you will have an unusual and great opportunity to join us: a diverse and motivated team, committed to delivering value and creative services together with our clients and partners in the primary insurance space.

Responsibilities

• You will work closely in multi-functional teams to shape the technology platform that fulfill our business and product vision and ultimately bring value to our customers and partners by disrupting the traditional insurance proposition.


• This will require seeking complex problems within a high-traffic distributed infrastructure by designing, implementing and testing simple, scalable and reliable solutions.

This will include:

• Design and implement new features and/or components within our platform and develop prototypes quickly to allow an iterative approach


• Deliver high-quality code, focusing on simplicity, performance, maintainability and scalability


• End-to-end responsibility on the applications implemented, including monitoring, identifying issues or bottlenecks and delivering improvements of the platform


• Optimise applications and components to maximize speed and efficiency, ease of development of new features and the ability to scale business processes


• Create common libraries and frameworks demonstrated across the platform to streamline development of complex applications

About the team

We put the consumers' needs at the center of what we do, seek to become a digital champion and believe in data based learning. We use the Swiss Re network to access state of the art technologies and capabilities, combine it with local expertise and an innovative mind-set, constantly questioning current ways of offering insurance. Our aim is to drive the digitalization of the P&C insurance business in Europe, combining insurance know-how and e-commerce competencies, as well as the dynamic spirit of a start-up with the backing of Swiss Re.

Do you enjoy thinking ahead and identifying new opportunities or anticipate future challenges? Do you like driving complex, multi-functional projects in an agile way? Do you enjoy pushing borders and have a passion for the latest technologies?

About you

• Proven software development capabilities (5+ years hands-on experience) in any modern language (Java/Kotlin/Scala/C++/C#/Go/Python…) ***we are working in Java environment***


• Experience with high-traffic micro services architectures and best practices around designing, scaling and monitoring concurrent systems (using different technologies and preferably RESTful APIs and message passing protocols)


• You carefully evaluate design trade-offs and strive for simple, elegant, algorithmically efficient solutions


• Your code is easy to read, test and re-use and you constantly improve quality overtime


• You understand performance metrics, how to collect and use them to continuously improve performance, scalability and efficiency


• Experience designing data-models for relational and NoSQL data stores


• Great team player: you collaborate effectively with team members, express technical leadership supporting your views and ideas while keeping open to different opinions, being fearless and always supplying to the overall growth of the team


• Continuous learner who stays up-to-date with the latest trends and carefully vet with proper pragmatism and long term vision the adoption of new technologies


• Master’s or PhD degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent working experience


• Ability to speak and write English fluently

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We provide feedback to all candidates via email. If you have not heard back from us, please check your spam folder.

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