Backend Engineer in London

At Cytora, now an Applied Systems company, we are 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 are looking for curious, collaborative minds ready to help shape what’s next. If you are energised by innovation and inspired by impact, your future starts here.

As a backend engineer at Cytora, you will be joining a backend functional team. 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 ensure we deliver the right features. Regardless of the 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 digitise risks and to accomplish that we rely heavily on Generative AI. Our engineering and product teams are distributed across Europe.

This role requires experience with:

• Git (we use GitHub)
• 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
• AWS API Gateway
• AWS SQS
• AWS SNS
• AWS SES

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

We are building the future of insurance and we are doing it together. At Cytora, we are 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 recognises that you are more than your role: you are 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

Cytora are a remote-first company. For this role, you can be based anywhere in the UK provided you have fluent spoken and written English, and have the permanent right to work without requiring visa sponsorship.

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.