Senior Software Engineer developing and integrating applications for Zurich Insurance in a team environment. Focusing on quality, security, and continuous improvement of processes in a hybrid work setup.
About the role
- Staff Software Engineer at The Economist Group leading backend development for Gen AI services. Designing scalable and secure cloud systems in a remote-first environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development and operation of backend services that support our Gen AI and personalization platform.
- Drive architectural decisions and set engineering standards for reliability, performance and security.
- Build and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS, using modern DevOps and IaC practices.
- Develop and optimize APIs, integration patterns and shared services for use across engineering teams.
- Apply Retrieval-Augmented Generation and other Gen AI techniques to real product use cases.
- Own services in production, ensuring strong observability, alerting, performance and FinOps monitoring.
- Partner with InfoSec, Support and Enablement teams to deliver secure, well-documented and supportable systems.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to cross-team technical initiatives.
- Occasionally contribute to frontend work using React or Next.js.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in backend or platform engineering.
- Strong proficiency in at least one of Go, Python, Java or TypeScript/JavaScript.
- Deep experience with AWS, including designing and operating cloud-native applications.
- Expertise in API design, API gateways and distributed backend systems.
- Hands-on experience with RAG and integrating Gen AI models into production systems.
- Strong DevOps skills, including CI/CD pipelines, containerization and serverless architecture.
- Solid understanding of web infrastructure, including load balancers, WAFs and CDNs.
- Experience with IaC tools such as CDK or Terraform.
- Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks, ideally React or Next.js.
- Proven track record in technical leadership, mentoring and cross-team collaboration.
- Clear communication skills and a strong sense of ownership.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Work From Anywhere program for up to 25 days
- Generous annual and parental leave
- Volunteering days
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