Senior Backend Engineer

Shape the Industry and Your Career: As a Senior Backend Engineer at Cytora, you will be joining a backend functional team and will be prototyping, implementing, shipping and supporting features that are changing the insurance industry. The role requires experience with Git, Python, and various AWS services, and benefits from experience with Redis and GCP VertexAi.

Requirements

• Git (we use GitHub)
• Python (buzzwords: msgspec, httpx, pydantic, fastapi, structlog, sqlalchemy, alembic, jinja2, pytest, ruff, mypy)
• Mypy (we use mypy, a lot. We also welcome candidates with experience with other static type checkers!)
• Rest APIs (we use openapi spec to document our apis)
• Relational Databases (we use Postgres)
• Docker (we use Docker to package our code, and docker-compose to run it locally)
• AWS Lambda (The vast majority of our backend code is deployed as AWS Lambda functions)
• AWS S3
• AWS RDS
• AWS API Gateway
• AWS SQS
• AWS SNS
• AWS SES
• Redis
• GCP VertexAi (we use gemini a lot)
• 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
• Kubernetes
• CircleCI
• DataDog
• Auth0
• 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

• Competitive salary
• Flexible working and remote options
• Professional development budget & conference access
• Annual company retreats
• A mission-driven culture that puts people first