Job Title: Software Engineer - Python
Department: Technology & Data
- Brit has a leadership position at Lloyd’s, the most well-known insurance market in the world. At Brit, we believe that the uncertainty of the future should never stand in the way of progress. That’s why we exist. To help people and businesses face the future and thrive.
- We are change-makers enabled by a global workforce who collaborate to deliver a risk service. Our goal is to attract and retain the best talent in the market and empower those individuals to innovate, and champion the strategic objectives within the business. Our technology and data teams have led some of the most noteworthy developments in the London market, by delivering digital, data and AI driven capabilities:
- Data is a key capability to drive Brit’s ambition for digital, innovation, growth and efficiencies. Brit leads the market with respect to our data modernization journey, delivering on our vision to build a central, trusted, cost efficient, flexible, and scalable cloud native data platform that enables us to harness maximum value from internal and external data for Brit.
- Brit is active in advancing digital trading approaches, most notably with respect to Broker APIs. At Brit, we are designing a multi class of business headless API which connects Brits pricing and document generation to multiple global Broker platforms, Market Hubs, and enables bulk submission ingestion.
- Brit has launched its Underwriting Transformation journey advancing our capabilities deploying digital foundations for pricing and underwriter workbench. Brit’s new modern Underwriting Platform is at the heart of this transformation agenda, with a focus on engineering, upskilling in python, exploring ingestion and analytics, we are actively delivering our digital future.
- Our market leading proprietary machine learning algorithms designed to accelerate the identification of post catastrophe property damage, based on the use of ultra-high-resolution imagery, allows Brit to accelerate service to its customers when they need it most, noted as the first enabler for virtual claims adjusting in the London market.
- We value continuous learning & exploration, encouraging our people to constantly evolve and take advantage of the best-in-class technology & tooling.
- If you have the drive to work in a flexible, fun, passionate Technology and Data team we would love to hear from you!
Purpose of the Job:
As part of Brit’s technology team, you will participate in the innovation and delivery of technology and software solutions that support Brit’s business objectives.
As a software engineer, you will be working with other engineers, tech leads, product owners, scrum masters and very driven Agile teams to identify, build and improve tools, systems and platforms that enhance Brit’s ability to create solutions and services for our customers. This role will translate business needs and functional designs into functioning software or technology designs and deliver/develop common foundation architecture components that conform to known successful patterns, and that support evolution toward the future-state architecture.
You will be part of an engineering team that will participate in professional and comprehensive support and build, with the flexibility to build or maintain the specified solution or initiative dependent upon the departmental requirements.
Principal Accountabilities:
- Working as an integral member of the Software Development Team, developing, and maintaining insurance-based products
- Building and maintaining pricing models that help increase value to the business
- Engage in the full process of service development from concept and design to development, testing and deployment, support and maintenance, within an agile environment
- Collaborate with internal teams to improve products
- Document technical design and analysis work
- Develop and Support applications in Azure - may require being on call to provide support during critical periods
Regulatory Conduct Rules:
- Act with integrity.
- Act with due skill, care and diligence.
- Be open and co-operative with Lloyd’s, the FCA, the PRA, and other regulators.
- Pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly.
- Observe proper standards of market conduct.
Education, Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
Required Skills & Knowledge:
- Experience with Python frameworks (e.g. Django, Flask, Bottle, FastAPI )
- Experienced in Python and building customer-facing applications
- Working experience on greenfield projects and a chance to bootstrap their technology stack
- Implement solutions based upon OO, DRY and SOLID principles
- Integrating with RESTful APIs
- Should demonstrate the ability to grasp project requirements and other concepts quickly
- Possess good communication skills and be proactive in their approach
Required Skills & Knowledge:
- Experience with Python frameworks (e.g. Django, Flask, Bottle, FastAPI )
- Experienced in Python and building customer-facing applications
- Working experience on greenfield projects and a chance to bootstrap their technology stack
- Implement solutions based upon OO, DRY and SOLID principles
- Integrating with RESTful APIs
- Should demonstrate the ability to grasp project requirements and other concepts quickly
- Possess good communication skills and be proactive in their approach
Required Tool sets:
- Python 3
- FastAPI
- SQL
- SQL Alchemy
- Jinja2
Desirable Skills and Knowledge:
- Python, Flask, Django, PyTorch, Scikit, Pandas, Numpy
- TDD, Test Automation
- Proficient with git and git workflows combined with a strong hands-on experience building CI/CD workflows
- Azure PaaS services (App Services, Function Apps, API Management, Service Bus, Azure Storage, Key Vaults, Azure SQL, Azure CosmosDb, Azure AD).
- Experienced in an Agile delivery environment
- Understanding of design documentation, UML, Entity Relationship Diagramming etc.
- React
- Gradio
- Terraform
Total Years of Experience:
- 2 - 4 years with at least 2+ years of work experience in Python and Fast API and SQL.
Non - Technical:
- Good interpersonal skills with a key ability to work with an Agile team
- Good analytical and technical skills
- Ability to think out of the box and deliver on the agreed solutions to business problems
- Strong interest in latest technology trends
