--- title: 'Senior Backend Engineer at Cytora' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-backend-engineer-cytora-united-kingdom-cjs01kfn4g3z' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Senior Backend Engineer at Cytora - **Company:** Cytora - **Location:** United Kingdom - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-03-30 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cytora.com/ef442ee3-f1bd-4f87-b13b-c0b444ad71d4/application **Skills:** Git, Python, Mypy, Rest APIs, Postgres, Docker, AWS Lambda, AWS S3, AWS RDS, AWS API Gateway, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, AWS SES, Redis, GCP VertexAI, GCP BigQuery, OCR engines, Prompt Engineering, Kubernetes, CircleCI > Join a small backend functional team to prototype, implement, and ship features for an AI-powered insurance platform. You will work independently, collaborating with distributed teams to digitize risks using generative AI and cloud technologies. ## Job description Shape the Industry and Your Career At Cytora, now an Applied Systems company, we’re 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’re looking for curious, collaborative minds ready to help shape what’s next. If you’re energized by innovation and inspired by impact, your future starts here. Position Overview As a Senior Backend Engineer at Cytora, you will be joining a backend functional team. As such, 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 make sure we deliver the right features. Regardless of 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 digitize risks and to accomplish that we rely heavily on Generative AI. Our engineering and product teams are distributed across Europe. Below you can find the required and preferred qualifications. We made this list quite extensive so that you also get a taste of our tech stack! 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 ## Why Cytora We’re building the future of insurance and we’re doing it together. At Cytora, now an Applied Systems company, we’re 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 recognizes that you’re more than your role: you’re 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 Location Cytora are a remote-first company. For this role you can be based anywhere in the UK or Ireland provided you have fluent spoken and written English, and have the permanent right to work without requiring visa sponsorship. AI Utilization We leverage AI tools to streamline parts of our recruitment workflow (such as resume parsing and interview scheduling). However, candidate screening, interviews, and final decisions are conducted by real humans. ## EEO Statement 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. ## About Cytora ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Cytora provides an agentic-AI-powered risk digitization and automation platform for commercial insurance, enabling brokers, insurers, and reinsurers to digitize, decision, and control risk workflows. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom - **Founded**: 2014 - **Founders**: Richard Hartley (CEO) and Aeneas Wiener (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Insurtech / Enterprise AI for Commercial Insurance - **Target customers**: B2B; specifically commercial insurance carriers, brokers, and reinsurers (enterprise segment) - **Mission statement**: To help build a bigger, more impactful insurance industry where more risk can be transferred away from businesses that don’t want it to efficient financial markets, enabling commercial insurers to become digital-first. ## Products & Services - **Cytora Risk Digitization Platform**: An agentic-AI platform that digitizes unstructured risk submissions (from new business to claims) and automates workflows. It requires no training, supports 140+ languages, and allows insurers to author their own "view of risk" using natural language. The platform enables configurable, auditable agentic workflows that run themselves, driving premium growth, improved loss ratios, and faster broker service. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total Funding — $85.5M (as of Series B, led by EQT Ventures, with participation from existing investors) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: EQT Ventures (lead), with existing investors including Cambridge Innovation Capital, Parkwalk Advisors, and others. Key clients/partners include Zurich, Chubb, and Markel. - **Growth Signals**: - Zurich scaled Cytora’s agentic AI to 5 countries in 90 days, reducing manual processing time by over 80% and planning a rollout across 20+ markets within 16 months. - Markel achieved a +100% productivity uplift using Cytora to fuel growth. - Chubb engaged Cytora to enhance global claims automation and straight-through processing. - The company is expanding its global footprint with deployments across multiple countries and lines of business. ## Competitive Advantages - **Agentic-AI-first approach**: The platform is powered by Large Language Models pre-trained on commercial insurance, requiring zero training for new deployments, enabling rapid go-lives and parallel rollouts across multiple workflows, countries, and lines of business. - **Configurability**: Insurers can author their unique view of risk in natural language, designing agentic workflows for different risk complexity levels without needing technical teams. - **Scalability & Security**: ISO certified, enterprise-grade security with managed cloud deployments. Supports 140+ languages out of the box. - **Proven ROI**: Demonstrated measurable benefits including up to 3pp improvement in loss ratio, significant premium growth uplift, and halving broker turnaround times. ## Strategic Focus - **Global expansion**: Scaling deployments across multiple markets (e.g., Zurich’s 20+ country rollout) and deepening partnerships with major global insurers. - **Product evolution**: Continuing to advance agentic AI capabilities to further automate and optimize the entire risk lifecycle from submission to decisioning. - **Decoupling premium growth from expense growth**: Helping insurers absorb more volume without proportional cost increases, closing the global protection gap. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as collaborative, with an emphasis on first-principle thinking, ownership, and solving hard problems. The team values curiosity, originality, and customer success. - **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Remote-first organization with the option to work from any UK, EU, or US location. HQ is in London. - **Team**: A diverse global team of around 133 employees (as per Built In), working alongside "some of the brightest minds in machine learning, AI, and software engineering." - **Impact**: Employees work on projects with global impact, helping to build a more resilient risk industry and close the protection gap. - **Benefits**: Focus on ownership, flexibility, and community. Specific perks are not detailed but the company emphasizes a fun, fulfilling, and productive environment. ## Sources 1. [cytora.com](https://www.cytora.com/) 2. [cytora.com/about-us](https://www.cytora.com/about-us) 3. [cytora.com/about-careers](https://www.cytora.com/about-careers) 4. [builtin.com/company/cytora](https://builtin.com/company/cytora) 5. 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