Senior Software Engineer

Job description

At Zego, we're on a mission to do the good thing, not the insurance thing.

Insurance hasn't changed much in over a century. The way we live, work and travel has. We're building the real-time, AI-driven infrastructure that powers innovative insurance, so good drivers get cover that works the way they actually drive.

For us, AI isn't a line on a roadmap or a buzzword on a slide. It's our operating reality, and it's how we build products that back drivers instead of the old insurance playbook.

Responsibilities

• Solve complex problems with software that is reliable, well tested, resilient and observable
• Develop, test, deploy and own Python microservices that deliver real business and user value
• Shape architectural decisions so systems scale without becoming harder to change
• Lift code quality across the team through reviews and clear, well-documented code
• Ship outcomes as part of a product team, working closely with engineers and Product Managers
• Improve how the team works and influence the direction of its strategy

Requirements

• Backend and cloud microservices - A proven track record building and maintaining backend systems and cloud microservices. Our stack is Python, but strong experience in another language works too!
• Strong fundamentals - Data structures, algorithms and object-oriented programming, applied rather than recited
• Delivery discipline - Comfortable with testing frameworks, debugging, refactoring, version control and CI/CD pipelines
• Data fluency - A working understanding of SQL and document databases
• Ownership at pace - You work independently, take business and product ownership and keep moving when requirements evolve
• You work AI-first - You will use AI daily here, and we mean daily. You do not need to arrive an expert, but you do need to arrive curious, experiment fast, and take ownership of getting good quickly. People who wait to be trained will find this uncomfortable