Senior Backend Engineer

Shape the Industry and Your Career At Cytora, now an Applied Systems company, we’re transforming how insurers and brokers connect, operate, and grow. Our AI-powered platform is driving smarter decisions, greater efficiency, and seamless collaboration across the global insurance ecosystem. As we accelerate digital transformation, we’re looking for curious, collaborative minds ready to help shape what’s next. If you’re energized by innovation and inspired by impact, your future starts here. Position Overview As a Senior Backend Engineer at Cytora, you will be joining a backend functional team.

As such, the teams are small (maximum 4/5 people) and work independently of each other. Each team has a technical lead and a product owner steering the team to make sure we deliver the right features. Regardless of team you join, you will be prototyping, implementing, shipping and supporting features that are changing the insurance industry. The core of our product is to digitize risks and to accomplish that we rely heavily on Generative AI. Our engineering and product teams are distributed across Europe. Below you can find the required and preferred qualifications.

We made this list quite extensive so that you also get a taste of our tech stack! This role requires experience with:

• Git
• Python (buzzwords: msgspec, httpx, pydantic, fastapi, structlog, sqlalchemy, alembic, jinja2, pytest, ruff, mypy)
• Mypy (we use mypy, a lot. We also welcome candidates with experience with other static type checkers!)
• Rest APIs (we use openapi spec to document our apis)
• Relational Databases (we use Postgres)
• Docker (we use Docker to package our code, and docker-compose to run it locally)
• AWS Lambda (The vast majority of our backend code is deployed as AWS Lambda functions)
• AWS S3
• AWS RDS -

Gateway

• AWS SQS
• AWS SNS -

This role benefits from experience with:

• Redis
• GCP VertexAi (we use gemini a lot)
• GCP BigQuery (we use it to power our analytics)
• OCR engines (we use AWS Textract, GDocAI, and we have used tesseractOCR in the past)
• Prompt Engineering
• Kubernetes
• CircleCI
• DataDog
• Auth0
• Role Based Access Control
• JsonSchema
• Pusher (we use it to push notifications to our Frontend Web App)
• LocalStack (we use it to mock AWS services locally)
• Terraform Why Cytora We’re building the future of insurance and we’re doing it together. At Cytora, now an Applied Systems company, we’re driven by a shared mission to transform the industry through AI-powered solutions that deliver smarter decisions, stronger connections, and better outcomes. We foster a culture that values who you are and recognizes that you’re more than your role: you’re a teammate, and you matter. We thrive on the strength of our diverse experiences and celebrate the uniqueness each person brings to work every day. We believe flexibility fuels performance. Whether remote, hybrid, or in-office, we empower our teams to work in ways that work best for them. Here’s what you can expect when you join us:
• Competitive salary
• Flexible working and remote options
• Professional development budget & conference access
• Annual company retreats
• A mission-driven culture that puts people first Location Cytora are a remote-first company. For this role you can be based anywhere in the UK or Ireland provided you have fluent spoken and written English, and have the permanent right to work without requiring visa sponsorship. AI Utilization We leverage AI tools to streamline parts of our recruitment workflow (such as resume parsing and interview scheduling). However, candidate screening, interviews, and final decisions are conducted by real humans. EEO Statement Applied Systems is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Diversity and Inclusion is a business imperative and is a part of building our brand and reputation. At Applied, we don’t discriminate, and we are committed to recruit, develop, retain, and promote regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.

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