Senior Back-End Engineer

at  CAPE ANALYTICS INC

A BIT ABOUT US:

Property intelligence from CAPE allows insurance carriers to elevate their underwriting workflows, which consider a multitude of risk factors that determine each policy’s eligibility and price. CAPE’s low-latency APIs feed risk-relevant data into consumer shopping interfaces, programmatic underwriting workflows, and insurance pricing models. Our risk intelligence web portal provides a deep view into property-level risk for underwriters. CAPE’s products improve our clients’ underwriting efficiency and effectiveness and enable them to deliver superior experiences to their policyholders.
CAPE’s solutions have been adopted by leading insurance carriers across the U.S., Canada, and Australia…but we are just getting started. Over the past 10 years, we’ve constructed a risk analytics platform purpose-built for deep learning. In CAPE’s growth phase, we set out to solve an even larger share of the problem, leveraging a radically expanded array of input data sources and advanced machine learning technologies.

THE OPPORTUNITY:

We’re looking for a Senior Back-End Software Engineer that can build extensible, robust web applications, with an eye for architecture. We leverage GCP, Tensorflow, Python, Ruby, Web Components, Ember and Node to develop high-performance applications for the insurance industry.
This opportunity is Remote from the US!

THE SKILL SET:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM field with 5+ years of hands-on industry experience, Master’s degree in a STEM field with 3+ years of relevant, hands-on industry experience, or PhD degree in a STEM field.
• Expertise with a scripting language, such as Python, Ruby and SQL. Demonstrated understanding of software architecture principles.
• GIS knowledge is a plus.
• Strong ability to design and implement high-quality, scalable code solutions.
• Demonstrates a high level of initiative and autonomy in problem-solving. Proficient in translating abstract tasks into well-defined technical objectives.
• Adaptability: We use whatever technology fits the task, not creating tasks that fit the technology. You should have a proven track record of learning new languages/tech-stacks and applying them effectively.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to understand and articulate business requirements and objectives to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to travel 1-2 times annually for company/team events

Please refer the Job description for details