2 years ago
Winterthur, SwitzerlandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Co-own the architecture and productive operation of the ecosystem connecting AI-based underwriting solutions, pricing and discount controls, and core IT.
- Design and develop robust, scalable, and maintainable APIs, interfaces, and integrations between distributed systems.
- Develop and operate Python backend applications and connect APIs, data pipelines, and AI components.
- Translate complex technical and business requirements in collaboration with data scientists, actuaries, AI engineers, and underwriting and pricing stakeholders.
- Establish engineering best practices, contribute to code reviews, and advance the team’s engineering culture.
- Evaluate relevant developments in software engineering, cloud, and AI and make them useful to the team and stakeholders.
- Balance innovation and operational stability while considering latency, cost, security, and maintainability.
Requirements
- Several years of experience as a Software Engineer or AI Engineer, with a proven record designing, integrating, and operating complex distributed systems.
- Experience developing and operating Python backend applications, such as with FastAPI or Flask.
- Experience bringing APIs, data pipelines, and AI components together cleanly.
- Ability to design overall system architectures and make decisions involving latency, cost, security, and maintainability.
- Experience with cloud-native concepts, Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD.
- Experience with GCP, especially Vertex AI and Cloud Run, is a strong advantage.
- Strong opinions about software design principles and technology selection combined with pragmatic implementation skills.
- Understanding of insurance products and processes, or strong motivation to learn them; P&C, underwriting, or pricing knowledge is advantageous.
- Fluent German and English.
Benefits
- 80–100% position based in Winterthur with Smart Working and a flexible work model.
- Five weeks of vacation, with six weeks from age 50, additional vacation gifts every five years, and the option to purchase up to 10 additional vacation days per year.
- Family-friendly meeting times, parental leave, childcare subsidies, family allowances, and leave for caregiving or challenging personal situations.
- Attractive pension benefits, insurance-product discounts, AXA Shareplan, CHF 500 annually on the Swibeco benefits platform, discounted meals or Lunch-Card, and a CHF 200 annual Smart Working allowance.
- Mobility benefits including half-fare reimbursement, Reka-Pay support up to CHF 1,000 per year, fleet discounts, free EV charging, and AXA loan bicycles.
- Health checks, health weeks, exercise and massage offerings, quiet rooms, Employee Care, and health and mental-health resources.
- Three days of individual learning time, coaching, professional-development support, internal mobility opportunities, innovation projects, and two days for volunteering.
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About AXA
AXA is a global insurance and asset management group that sells life, health, property & casualty, and commercial specialty (AXA XL) coverage to individuals and businesses, plus investment products via AXA Investment Managers. It earns premiums and fees and invests float across diversified portfolios. Headquartered in Paris and publicly traded on Euronext Paris, AXA serves customers across Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific, with operations in more than 50 countries.