The Company
Cover Genius is a Series E insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com, Intuit, Uber, Hopper, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip and SeatGeek. We’re also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee. Our partners integrate with XCover, our award-winning insurance distribution platform, to embed protection for millions of customers worldwide each year.
Our team and products have been recognized with dozens of awards including by the Financial Times which ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest-growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commit itself to diverse cultural programs, in particular “CG Gives” which makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities.
Our People are
Bold, Authentic, Purposeful and Inspired
Our People are not
Perfect, Traditional, Complacent or Cautious
About the Role
As a Software Engineer II in the BrightWrite/Data team, you will leverage your intermediate-level expertise to contribute to innovations focused on delivering AI assisted projects that improves the business efficiency.
Your key tasks will include:
- Supporting AI Implementations: Assist with the development and integration of AI-powered solutions within APIs, aimed at improving customer chatbot operations and automating insurance workflows for better user interaction and business efficiency.
- Collaborating with the team to co-design, develop, and deploy scalable APIs using Django and FastAPI with Rest and GraphQL.
- Ensure code quality, performance, and reliability through comprehensive testing and code reviews. Improves the process with the CI/CD toolings
- Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical issues. Writing and maintaining technical documentation, including tutorials, guides, and blameless post-mortems
This role is perfect for someone who thrives on tackling complex challenges and is passionate about continuous learning and improvement. You'll have the freedom to experiment, the support to grow, and the platform to make a massive impact.
Technical requirements for the role:
- Minimum 3 years of professional Python backend development experience using frameworks like Django or FastAPI. Demonstrated ability to deliver scalable software solutions.
- Experience in building and maintaining REST APIs
- Experience working with OpenAI, Gemini, or Claude APIs
- Experience in prompt tweaking for AI models.
- Proficiency with Python testing
- Basic practical experience working with frontend e.g. Javascript, HTML, CSS
- Previous experience maintaining Python applications that manage large workloads in production environments using Kubernetes and Helm or similar technologies
- Experience using observability tools e.g. Datadog, Grafana, NewRelic and Prometheus
- Understanding of modern DevOps practices such as Docker, CI/CD and Kubernetes
Nice to have:
- Experiences with publishing non web based Python projects and/or Pypi packages
- Hands on experiences using GraphQL
- Hands on DevOps experiencesFunctional knowledge of any of the following technologies:
- RabbitMQ / Celery (al alternatives)
- GitLab CI
- ArgoCD
- Experience with GCP / Edge computing platform is a plus
To be successful in this role you will bring:
- BS in Computer Science, Math or a related STEM field
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to work in an agile team environment
- Interested in working in a fast-paced environment
- Sydney based with full Australian work rights
Cover Genius not only cares about being the best in our industry, we care about our team. We’re a business that understands life can be fluid and so we flex to ensure we provide the environment to suit that. What does that mean?
• Flexible Work Environment - we are outcome focussed and understand that for our people to perform at their best flexibility is critical.
• Employee Stock Options - we want our people to share in our success, we reward them with ownership for their contribution in creating a world-class company.
• Work with like-minded people who are passionate about both the work we're doing and giving back. Our CG Gives programs enables us to all become philanthropists through our peer recognition and rewards system.
• Social Initiatives - pictures speak a thousand words!
Sound interesting? If you think you have the best composition of the above, send us your resume and let's chat!
* Cover Genius promotes diversity and inclusivity. We don't tolerate discrimination, demeaning treatment of anyone, or harassment due to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
