Junior Fullstack Software Engineer

Akur8 is a young, dynamic, fast growing Insurtech scale-up that is transforming insurance pricing and reserving with transparent machine learning.

Our SaaS platform leverages the power of transparent machine learning and predictive analytics to inject game-changing speed, performance and reliability into insurers' pricing and reserving processes.

Powered by skilled R&D, Product & Actuarial teams we've developed unique AI algorithms that automate the insurance pricing and reserving in an unprecedented manner.

This results in a pricing solution that enables insurance companies to model risks 10 times faster with greater predictive power than traditional methods, whilst including next-generation reserving features, offering an end-to-end platform that anticipates and accounts for future claims.

Akur8 has already been selected:

• In CB Insights Top 50 World Insurtech Companies 2024
• In Insurtech Global's Top 100 AIFinTech list 2024
• In Fintech Global's Top 100 AIFinTech list 2024
• In CNBC's World Top 150 Insurtech Companies 2024

With 42 nationalities on our team and offices in 8 major global cities, Akur8's solution is international by design, serving over 320 clients across 4 continents, and focusing on mature markets to drive faster growth.

To learn more about Akur8, and what we do, click here.

Akur8 is, in all senses of the term, an equal opportunities employer. Akur8 puts diversity, equality and inclusion at the heart of its values. We examine all applications based on equal skills and applying the principles of non-discrimination.

We're looking for Junior Software Engineers that have a strong interest in both cloud-computing & AI in order to help build our complex SAAS solution alongside our world-class tech teams.

Our Engineering team is the driving force behind an exhilarating development journey, sculpting the gold standard in insurance pricing software according to our ambitious development roadmap.

You are a Software Engineer, with a client-first approach that will help us build our complex data-processing solution. You have an objective-driven mindset and you have proactivity solving problems that matter for our deliveries and to our clients. You possess a sharp curiosity to understand both the smallest details, and the general purpose of the features being developed. Your main responsibilities will include:

• Implement features that allow actuaries to better understand their pricing strategies.
• Develop full stack features in Java in Spring Boot, Python and Angular.
• Support and the setup of infrastructure features in AWS
• Work closely with product and designers to refine features and prototypes.

Technology stack:

• Java 21 (Spring), Angular 20, Python 3, AWS, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker

Candidates must be team players with excellent interpersonal skills. They must also have solid, proven experience architecting and building commercial quality business software applications.

• Understand client priorities & the need to find the right balance between fast delivery and code robustness
• Master Degree (Bac+5) from a top engineering school
• Work closely with product and designers to refine features and prototypes
• A fluent level of spoken English

Additional bonus:

• Experience in JAVA, Python, C# or another back end development language
• Experience with Angular or another front end framework
• Interest in Machine Learning
• Experience using AWS

Important: You must possess an employment status: French or Schengen area nationality or a 'carte de séjour' that will allow work from our Paris office. We are equally open to the visa sponsorship of non-EU candidates as long as they are already in possession of their final diploma / attestation of their final academic results.

As a newcomer, you'll be joining a diverse, highly skilled and motivated team, with a strong Tech DNA, colleagues that are eager to share their knowledge and passion.

But it's not all work, you'll also be part of a dynamic team that enjoys spending time together and having fun, including karaoke, team lunches, playing sports as well as the occasional 'happy hour'.

In addition to this, we will provide you with:

• Competitive salary + annual bonus
• Hybrid office / home office policy
• 25 days of paid holidays + RTT
• Gym membership with Gymlib + corporate sporting activities
• Excellent health insurance (including possibility of family coverage)
• Swile lunch vouchers
• Public transportation reimbursement + sustainable mobility allowance
• Relocation support
• Sponsored crèche access
• Free cafeteria with fresh fruit, drinks and snacks
• Great office in the heart of the 9th arrondissement of Paris