Senior Back-end Developer

at Shift Technology

France or Remote eligible

At Shift Technology, we’re transforming insurance with AI(e)We help insurers fully automate more claims, deliver a great customer experience while protecting against risk and accurately identifying suspected fraud, making internal teams more effective and improving financial performance.

Since our launch in 2014 in Paris, we've raised over $320M with Tier 1 investors, opened offices in Boston, Tokyo, Singapore, London, Madrid, Mexico, Hong-Kong, and Sao Paulo, and currently work with more than 80 of the world’s leading insurers(e)If you are excited about joining a fast-growing insurtech innovator with a passion for excellence and global culture, Shift is the place for you.

Our success and growth is powered by the technical platform that allows us to bring AI-driven decision automation and optimization across the insurance lifecycle through our suite of products. 

The purpose of our team is to provide a set of libraries/frameworks/standards cross products(e)We work with the different teams dedicated to their products, we gather their common needs to design a way to answer this need as similarly as possible across all teams. 

The technical stack includes Net core (C#), Python,MS SQL Server, Elastic Search, and more(e)Performance, scalability and quality are key challenges to solve in order to deliver and review code.

As a teammate, you will also participate in all of the team's usual activities: of course software development, but also technical design, roadmap planning, estimates, code reviews, etc.

We work with modern technologies and always encourage our team to explore what’s new in the market.

Our main tools are:

• C# and Python in the Backend, written with Rider or Visual Studio+Resharper
• React/ Redux (es6) and Less in the Frontend, written with Visual Studio Code, and packaged with Webpack
• A continuous delivery pipeline that uses Git, Teamcity and Octopus Deploy
• SQL Server and Elasticsearch in the data layer

What We Are Looking For

• You have at least 4 years of experience in software development
• You have strong coding skills: whatever your language of choice, your projects are beautifully designed and cleanly written
• You have good understanding of OOP concepts and algorithms complexity
• You are dynamic, curious and eager to learn, always looking to expand your fields of expertise and take ownership of your work
• You often come up with new ideas to solve complex problems, and know how to get your teammates behind them
• You Work closely with software engineers, data scientists, QA, product managers and other teams to build high-quality products through the software development life cycle (build, test and release on time).
• You can communicate clearly in English