Lead Backend Engineer: .NET core (C#)

The future of insurance starts with AI. To date, Shift Technology's AI-powered products have benefitted more than 300 million policyholders globally by reducing underwriting risk, identifying more fraud, and automating critical tasks throughout the claims process. Shift harnesses the power of AI to enable the world’s leading insurance organizations to make better decisions. Our products help insurers improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and deliver superior customer experiences to their policyholders. Our culture is built on innovation, trust, and a drive to transform the insurance industry by imagining and innovating solutions that impact insurers and their customers - like you! We come from more than 50 different countries and cultures and together we are creating the future of insurance.

About the Engineering Team:

Our Engineering team lies at the core of the value we offer to our customers. We solve complex problems by working not only within our squads, but also by working collaboratively with other teams across the organization.

Our tech stack includes Python, Net core (C#), MS SQL Server, Elastic Search, and more. If you are excited by solving complex technical challenges, this is the right place for you!

We are in a process of moving towards distributed data on cloud platforms and have challenging opportunities in optimizing both bulk and real-time processing!

Realtime Services Squad

What you’ll do

• Write effective, scalable code to help with development of back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance.
• Integrating user-facing elements into applications
• Deliver, maintain, support and improve new & existing features in our customer products
• Contribute to Shift’s new technologies adoption by monitoring technological development, driving research and building POCs
• Provide technical guidance to peer engineers and help them to upskill

What you bring...

• You have at least 4 years of experience in software development.
• You have strong Coding Skills: C# .Net Tech Agnostic comfortable with OOP
• You master some data streaming tools like Kafka, Spark, Flink, Beam…
• You have a good understanding of distributed data systems

• Familiar with Python Frameworks (like Django, Flask or Pyramid)
• Build and modify high-performance APIs and program
• Bonus: SQL Server and Elasticsearch in the data layer
• Create high-availability, low-latency, and high-performance applications
• Knowledge and understanding of AI/ML Fundamentals

• You often come up with new ideas to solve complex problems
• You are used to work closely with cross-functional teams including Product, data scientists or engineers
• You can communicate fluently in English.

Recruitment Process

• HR Screening
• Technical Screening with a senior back-end engineer
• Second Technical screening with a technical lead
• Final Round with Hiring Manager

To support our permanent, full time employees at every stage of their careers and lives, we provide a competitive total rewards and benefits package. Here are the global benefits we’d like to highlight:

• Flexible remote and hybrid working options
• Competitive Salary and a variable component tied to personal and company performance
• Company equity
• Focus Fridays, a half-day each month to focus on learning and personal growth
• Generous PTO and paid holidays
• Mental health benefits
• 2 MAD Days per year (Make A Difference Days for paid volunteering)

Additional benefits may be offered by country - ask your recruiter for more information. Intern and Apprentice position are eligible for some of these benefits - ask your recruiter for more details.

At Shift we strive to be a diverse and inclusive workforce. We hire and trust people without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, age, national or ethnic origin, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other non-merit criteria.

Shift Technology is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our application and employment process. Should you require accommodation, please email [email protected] and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

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