.We are a high-growth Series-B InsurTech start-up using data and machine learning to revolutionize the insurance industry. You will be joining a strong and mission-driven team, working to build a customer-facing product that fundamentally changes the way insurers evaluate risk, enabling them to move from highly manual workflows to digital risk flows. Cytora's Risk Stream is a serverless and cloud-native SaaS platform that automates the digitization, evaluation, and decisioning of risks for commercial insurers. Our product drastically improves the working lives of our users, enabling our customers to cover more risks, more competitively.The Role As a backend engineer at Cytora, you will be joining a backend functional team. The teams are small (maximum 4/5 people) and work independently of each other.Each team has a technical lead and a product owner steering the team to ensure we deliver the right features. Regardless of the team you join, you will be prototyping, implementing, shipping, and supporting features that are changing the insurance industry.The core of our product is to digitize risks, and to accomplish that we rely heavily on Generative AI. Our engineering and product teams are distributed across Europe.Requirements This role requires experience with: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 APIsRelational Databases (we use Postgres)Docker (we use Docker to package our code, and docker-compose to run it locally)AWS, and more specifically with:AWS S3AWS Lambda (The vast majority of our backend code is deployed as AWS Lambda functions)AWS API GatewayAWS SQSAWS SNSAWS STEP FunctionsThis role benefits from experience with:RedisGCP, and more specifically with: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 EngineeringWeaviate (we use it for RAG in LLM powered tasks and for hybrid searches)Kubernetes (we run Weaviate and other specific services on Kubernetes)CircleCIDataDogAuth0 (we use it, but we would rather not have to)Role Based Access ControlJsonSchemaPusher (we use it to push notifications to our Frontend Web App)LocalStack (we use it to mock AWS services locally)TerraformBenefits Stock optionsEnhanced parental leavePrivate health insurance - UK onlyChoice of laptopFlexi-working£2000 travel budgetCompany trips*We employ people across the UK and Europe - Spain & Austria (using a 3rd party Employer of Record model), and inevitably the benefits that we can offer vary slightly in different territories, due to local employment law and feasibility. Our salary range does not vary depending on territory.Location Cytora is a remote-first company. For this role, you can be based anywhere in the UK or EU provided you 1