Front End Software Engineer

Akur8 is a young, dynamic, fast growing Insurtech scale-up that is transforming insurance pricing and reserving with transparent machine learning.

Our SaaS platform leverages the power of transparent machine learning and predictive analytics to inject game-changing speed, performance and reliability into insurers’ pricing and reserving processes.

Powered by skilled R&D, Product & Actuarial teams we’ve developed unique AI algorithms that automate the insurance pricing and reserving in an unprecedented manner.

This results in a pricing solution that enables insurance companies to model risks 10 times faster with greater predictive power than traditional methods, whilst including next-generation reserving features, offering an end-to-end platform that anticipates and accounts for future claims.

Akur8 Has Already Been Selected

• In CB Insights Top 50 World Insurtech Companies 2024
• In Insurtech Global’s Top 100 AIFinTech list 2024
• In Fintech Global’s Top 100 AIFinTech list 2024
• In CNBC’s World Top 150 Insurtech Companies 2024
  
  

With 42 nationalities on our team and offices in 8 major global cities, Akur8’s solution is international by design, serving over 320 clients across 4 continents, and focusing on mature markets to drive faster growth.

To learn more about Akur8, and what we do, click here.

Akur8 is, in all senses of the term, an equal opportunities employer. Akur8 puts diversity, equality and inclusion at the heart of its values. We examine all applications based on equal skills and applying the principles of non-discrimination.

We’re looking for Front End Software Engineers to help build our complex SAAS solution alongside our world-class tech teams.

Our Engineering team is the driving force behind an exhilarating development journey, sculpting the gold standard in insurance pricing software according to our ambitious development roadmap.

Responsibilities

You are a Software Engineer with Frontend expertise, with a client-first approach that will help us build our complex data-processing solution. You have an objective-driven mindset and you have proactivity solving problems that matter for our deliveries and to our clients. You possess a sharp curiosity to understand both the smallest details, and the general purpose of the features being developed. Your main responsibilities will include:

• Design and implement features that allow actuaries to better understand their pricing strategies.
• Develop mainly the Frontend components of our features using Angular
• Implement high-performance responsive user interfaces.
• Work closely with Machine Learning engineers to put in production new ML methods.
• Work closely with product and designers to refine features and prototypes.
• Ensure that the development is in line with clean code standards and our testing strategy.
• Close contact with clients to ensure maximum reactivity of your team.
  
  

Technology Stack

• Angular 20, Java 21 (Spring), Python 3, AWS, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker
  
  

Candidates must be team players with excellent interpersonal skills. They must also have solid, proven experience architecting and building commercial quality business software applications. They need to be a guarantor that Front end best coding practices are respected and followed in the squad and throughout the engineering team.

• Experience in Front End software development
• Understand client priorities & the need to find the right balance between fast delivery and code robustness
• Master Degree (Bac+5) from a top engineering school
• A fluent level of spoken English
  
  

Additional Bonus

• Experience in JAVA, Python, C# or another back end development language
• Interest in Machine Learning
• Experience using AWS
  
  

Important: You must possess an employment status: French or Schengen area nationality or a ‘carte de séjour’ that will allow work from our Paris office. We are equally open to the visa sponsorship of non-EU candidates as long as they are already in possession of their final diploma / attestation of their final academic results.

As a newcomer, you'll be joining a diverse, highly skilled and motivated team, with a strong Tech DNA, and colleagues that are also eager to exchange their knowledge and passion.

But it’s not all work, you’ll also be part of a dynamic team that enjoys spending time together and having fun.

In Addition To This, We Will Provide You With

• Competitive salary + annual bonus
• Hybrid office / home office policy
• 25 days of paid holidays + RTT
• Gym membership with Gymlib
• On-site gym facilities / corporate sporting activities
• Excellent health insurance (including possibility of family coverage)
• Swile lunch vouchers
• Public transportation reimbursement + sustainable mobility allowance
• Relocation support
• Sponsored crèche access
• Free cafeteria with fresh fruit, drinks and snacks
• Great office in the heart of the 9th arrondissement of Paris