Senior Software Engineer - Python (IGT1 Lanka : CFC)

About IGT1 Lanka

IGT1 Lanka is a rapidly growing offshore technology and talent solutions company based in Port City Colombo. We are a fully owned subsidiary of IGT I Holdings Sweden AB, funded by the three of world’s leading private equity firms; EQT Group, Hg, and TA Associates. We’re also proud to be a sister company of IFS, Sri Lanka’s largest and most established technology company.

At IGT1 Lanka, we partner with global businesses to scale operations, accelerate innovation, and build world-class SaaS platforms through high-quality offshore delivery. Our people-first culture champions diversity, teamwork, and continuous learning, creating an environment where talent thrives.

With a team of over 300 professionals and counting, we are always looking for passionate, skilled individuals who want to make a global impact while being part of something extraordinary.

Through our offshore collaboration model, you'll be embedded within the team of one of our esteemed international clients, contributing directly to high-impact, enterprise-level initiatives.
 

About the client: CFC

CFC is a specialist insurance provider, pioneer in emerging risk and market leader in cyber. Our global insurance platform uses cutting-edge technology and data science to deliver smarter, faster underwriting and protect customers from today’s most critical business risks.

Headquartered in London with offices across Europe, USA and Australia, CFC has over 1000 employees and is trusted by more than 150,000 businesses in 90 countries. Learn more at cfc.com and LinkedIn.

About the role:

Working within our Cyber Data Services team, which is at the core of our Proactive Insurance product offering  and CFC's promise to protect our policyholders from existing and emerging cyber security vulnerabilities and threats.

You will play a key role in developing the company's competitive advantage in aggregating, presenting, and analyzing large datasets. You will contribute to the development of our proprietary data platform and work to solve problems that are key to protecting our policyholders.

Your contributions will have a material impact on the business as a whole where you will be expected to play a role designing and implementing new data capabilities (ingesting large datasets, building robust & high-performance APIs, consuming high-frequency event streams), as well as improving the quality of our existing products and solutions.

 Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute using our standard tech stack, which is Python, Linux (via WSL), PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Databricks, and spans both Azure and AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Participate in the design and implementation of advanced mechanisms for data ingestion and transformation, and mass parallel orchestration of network IO.
• Maintaining Infrastructure as Code and working with infrastructure teams to develop valuable new features for CFC's Engineering Platform.
• Model data for a variety of purposes (operational and analytical) in collaboration with your team, other teams, and analytical data customers.
• Contribute to CFC's data platform in a way that promotes the development of a data mesh architecture for the entire enterprise.
• Work on indicators of data quality across our estate and improve the quality of our data along key metrics.
• Evaluate the quality (completeness and accuracy) of potential new data sources for specific applications.
• Contribute to quality automation in our CI/CD process, optimising for bug-free release cadence and developer delight.
• Maintain good quality documentation (starting with your code) for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Participate in a pairing-first development team, learning skills from your colleagues and giving back to the community by imparting hard-won wisdom and skills learned from past experiences.
• Mentoring and coaching of less experienced team members through design and code reviews
• Participate in a safe and honest workplace culture by participating in open conversations about technical design, implementation and interrogating decisions when appropriate.
• Contribution to test automation through either enhancement to the platform or additional tests
• Assessment of application security to ensure it complies with CFC Application Security Standards
• Evaluation of APIs to ensure that they comply with the relevant CFC API Standards 

Preferred Skills and Experience :

• You are able to grasp, articulate, and advocate for technological solutions in both technical and non-technical settings and intelligently apply agile principles as you do so. 
• You are able to interrogate and present data and data analysis and have a willingness to present results of analysis undertaken as a part of your team's work.
• You have demonstrable experience as a senior software developer or engineer with a focus on Python.
• You love SQL (Postgres, SQL Server, Databricks)
• You are comfortable working without an ORM.
• You are familiar with the challenges of working with data *at scale*.
• You prefer the command line use of git, bash/zsh, and (optionally) vim.
• An undergraduate degree or demonstrable knowledge and experience of concepts in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Logic, Applied Statistics, Actuarial Science, Data Science, or any related discipline would be advantageous.