Cover Genius

Software Engineer II, Data

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Sydney, New South Wales

Hybrid

eCommerce • Fintech • Information Technology • Insurance • Software

Cover Genius protects millions of customers of the world’s largest online companies. Our goal is to protect all of them.

The Role

The Company

Cover Genius is a Series E insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com, Intuit, Uber, Hopper, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip and SeatGeek. We’re also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee. Our partners integrate with XCover, our award-winning insurance distribution platform, to embed protection for millions of customers worldwide each year.

Our team and products have been recognized with dozens of awards including by the Financial Times which ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest-growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commit itself to diverse cultural programs, in particular “CG Gives” which makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities.

Our People are

Bold, Authentic, Purposeful and Inspired

Our People are not

Perfect, Traditional, Complacent or Cautious

About the Role

As a Software Engineer II in the BrightWrite/Data team, you will leverage your intermediate-level expertise to contribute to innovations focused on delivering AI assisted projects that improves the business efficiency.

Your key tasks will include:

- Supporting AI Implementations: Assist with the development and integration of AI-powered solutions within APIs, aimed at improving customer chatbot operations and automating insurance workflows for better user interaction and business efficiency.

- Collaborating with the team to co-design, develop, and deploy scalable APIs using Django and FastAPI with Rest and GraphQL.

- Ensure code quality, performance, and reliability through comprehensive testing and code reviews. Improves the process with the CI/CD toolings

- Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical issues. Writing and maintaining technical documentation, including tutorials, guides, and blameless post-mortems

This role is perfect for someone who thrives on tackling complex challenges and is passionate about continuous learning and improvement. You'll have the freedom to experiment, the support to grow, and the platform to make a massive impact.

Technical requirements for the role:

Minimum 3 years of professional Python backend development experience using frameworks like Django or FastAPI. Demonstrated ability to deliver scalable software solutions.
Experience in building and maintaining REST APIs
Experience working with OpenAI, Gemini, or Claude APIs
Experience in prompt tweaking for AI models.
Proficiency with Python testing
Basic practical experience working with frontend e.g. Javascript, HTML, CSS
Previous experience maintaining Python applications that manage large workloads in production environments using Kubernetes and Helm or similar technologies
Experience using observability tools e.g. Datadog, Grafana, NewRelic and Prometheus
Understanding of modern DevOps practices such as Docker, CI/CD and Kubernetes

Nice to have:

Experiences with publishing non web based Python projects and/or Pypi packages
Hands on experiences using GraphQL
Hands on DevOps experiencesFunctional knowledge of any of the following technologies:
RabbitMQ / Celery (al alternatives)
GitLab CI
ArgoCD
Experience with GCP / Edge computing platform is a plus

To be successful in this role you will bring:

BS in Computer Science, Math or a related STEM field
Strong communication skills
Ability to work in an agile team environment
Interested in working in a fast-paced environment
Sydney based with full Australian work rights

Cover Genius not only cares about being the best in our industry, we care about our team. We’re a business that understands life can be fluid and so we flex to ensure we provide the environment to suit that. What does that mean?

• Flexible Work Environment - we are outcome focussed and understand that for our people to perform at their best flexibility is critical.

• Employee Stock Options - we want our people to share in our success, we reward them with ownership for their contribution in creating a world-class company.

• Work with like-minded people who are passionate about both the work we're doing and giving back. Our CG Gives programs enables us to all become philanthropists through our peer recognition and rewards system.

• Social Initiatives - pictures speak a thousand words!

Sound interesting? If you think you have the best composition of the above, send us your resume and let's chat!

* Cover Genius promotes diversity and inclusivity. We don't tolerate discrimination, demeaning treatment of anyone, or harassment due to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

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The Company

New York, NY

600 Employees

Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Cover Genius is the insurtech for embedded protection. Together, we protect the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline and Booking.com, Intuit, Hopper, Skyscanner, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip and SeatGeek. We’re also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee. Cover Genius’ vision is to protect all the customers of the world’s largest online companies through XCover, an award-winning global distribution platform for any line of insurance or warranty, with an API for instant claims payments that holds an industry-leading NPS of +65‡.
Cover Genius and its partners co-create solutions that embed protection that’s licensed or authorized in over 60 countries and all 50 US States.

Why Work With Us

We are a vibrant international team that promotes inclusivity and celebrates our differences. We are growing fast, we provide our employees with professional development opportunities and we promote within through our bi-annual performance review cycles. We are bold enough to take chances, to challenge the status quo and inspire each other.