Rust Software Engineer

wefox is the world’s leading Insurtech that is reinventing insurance at scale, with a record-breaking Series C funding round of $650 million in 2021, making it the largest funding round of any Insurtech to date.

wefox is revolutionising insurance by empowering the customer and delivering personalised experiences, driven by data. Our vision is to make insurance simple and 10x better. By providing our customers 360-degree advice through our network of advisors, we optimise each individual's risk coverage through innovative prevention, assistance and insurance products.

We are currently looking for a backend software engineer to join our team in Paris. The team is the wefox’s Advanced Innovation Team and our focus, as a cross-functional team, is to leverage machine learning to improve the customer experience, and to deliver innovative products like risk detection and risk prevention. As a backend software engineer you will be involved throughout the lifecycle of the development with the responsibility of backend service development: architecture, implementation, deployment and maintenance of backend services.

**In this role you will**:

- Design, implement, deploy, with your agile team, distributed, high-volume, high-performance, low-latency Micro Services integrating machine learning models.
- Contribute in all phases of the development life cycle, and take ownership of your deployed services.
- Build modern systems using: Micro Services, Kubernetes, AutoScaling, ML model serving, CI/CD
- Write good designed, testable and efficient code.
- Optimize critical parts of your Micro Services.
- Prepare the automated integration tests involved with the requirements.
- Work closely with product owners, devops, and quality assurance in an agile cross-functional team.
- Develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Have a strategic and continuous improvement mentality.
- Love for new technologies, clean architecture, coding in a decoupled way.

**What you bring**:

- Strong development skills to work on services in Python and/or Rust.
- 2+ years of experience with API and services development.
- Expertise in Micro Services Architecture.
- Experience with relational and non-relational DB.
- Experience with Docker, kubernetes, build and CI/CD tools is a plus
- Experience in code/system optimization is a plus
- Strong interest in machine learning.
- Experience in understanding product requirements.
- Embrace ownership, autonomy and agile methodology.
- Good English proficiency (Work in an international environment).

**What we offer**:
Now, we’ve gotten to the fun part, the part where you get to brag about your company, those perks your friends are so jealous of

**Here are some of them**:

- Flexible working hours including hybrid working
- Free access to a mental health and well-being platform for personalised care, such as 1:1 coaching and therapy sessions for life’s ups and downs — whether at work, at home, or in your relationships
- A stack of the latest technologies and working gadgets
- Training and Coaching opportunities
- Free coffee, fruit, and snacks because we need fuel

If you love a less-formal work environment, flexible paid time off, a great compensation package and benefits offering - and most of all, being the authentic you, get in touch, we want to meet you

Your contact person for this role is Tony Veloso

We are an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.