Cover Genius

Software Engineer – Python Developer (Data team)

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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

We are looking to hire a strong mid-senior software engineer in the BrightWrite/Data team, where you'll apply your skills to innovate around data monitoring and AI adoption, particularly focusing on chatbot functionalities and insurance operations optimizations. You'll be diving into Django, FastAPI, and offline PyPI packages, making critical contributions that helps us to make it fast and reliable.

What could your day look like?

- Lead AI adoptions: Spearhead the development and integration of AI-powered solutions within APIs, focusing on refining customer chatbot operations and automating insurance workflows for enhanced user interaction and business efficiency

- Collaborate with the team to design, develop, and deploy scalable and robust 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.

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This role will be based in our Sydney office and the team works in a hybrid environment so that you have flexibility while being able to collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders in-office Monday, Tuesday and Friday, whilst having the added benefit of one Wellness day a month

Technical requirements for the role:

Ideally at least 5 years of full-time Python backend development experience using Python web frameworks (Must have Django or FastAPI). Proven track record of delivering high-quality, scalable software solutions.
Experience in building and maintaining REST APIs with integrated AI capabilities
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 technologiesExperience using observability tools e.g. Datadog, NewRelic and Prometheus Understanding of modern DevOps practices such as Docker, CI/CD and Kubernetes

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

To be successful you'll bring:

Strong communication skills
Ability to work in an agile team environment
Interest in working in a fast-moving environment
Full work rights to work in Australia
Located in Sydney or close by - we work in a hybrid environment so that you have flexibility while being able to collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders in office Monday, Tuesday and Friday, whilst having the added benefit of one Wellness day a month

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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.