Associate Application & Model Engineer - Remote

As an Excess and Surplus (E&S) carrier, we face unique and interesting problems every day. We are seeking an Associate Application & Model Engineer to join our amazing team.

Primary Function:

At our Risk, Analytics, and Data (RAD) team, we focus on Actuarial, Data Science, Model Engineering, and Enterprise Risk Management functions. The Application & Model Engineering team develops and maintains the full stack of internally built RAD products - APIs, wireframes, frontend apps, model integrations, and infrastructure - that power and support rating, underwriting, data science, and actuarial functions and production workflows. Our engineers own deployment pipelines, manage application security, and optimize distributed systems performance to deliver business-critical capabilities across multiple product lines. Our application and model environment and architecture is containerized, and we are cloud based, running on Azure. Our vision is to build highly automated and efficient processes that require creative problem solving and a close collaboration with stakeholders across the organization, not limited by a 'one size fits all' mindset.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Build on a fully containerized model architecture/environment
• Learn provisioning of applications through Infrastructure as Code
• Work with and develop a modern CI/CD model pipeline
• Design and develop data stores, wireframes, applications, APIs and other internal products to support rating, underwriter and actuarial workflows
• Support integration of data science, actuarial, AI models etc. into proof-of-concept systems and applications under guidance
• Learn application, container, model orchestration and security
• Other duties as assigned by management

Experience, Education, Special Skills Required:

• A bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field
• 0-2 years of experience as a Backend Engineer
• Demonstrated ability to write well-structured, maintainable Python code with Git version control
• Built immersive production-grade frontend experiences and the backend APIs underpinning them
• Familiar with CI/CD processes deploying to cloud resources using GitHub Actions or similar tool
• Familiar building images and maintaining containerized applications using Docker/Docker compose
• Comfortable working with relational (SQL) and non-relational (NoSQL) databases
• Possess solid Linux/Unix knowledge and comfortable working in terminal or CLI
• Self-starter, quick learner, and creative problem solver that thrives in a flexible, fast-paced, and remote work environment
• Experience prototyping AI/ML applications, including async processing pipelines and workflow orchestration

Disclosures:

Pay Estimate: $ 85,000 - $110,000

Other compensation: annual incentive program

Benefits: health insurance including FSA and HSA options and free access to Teladoc, vision, dental, disability and life insurance, parental leave, responsible time off (unlimited vacation days without an accrual system), paid sick time as required by law, 401(k), tuition reimbursement and employee assistance program.