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title: 'Senior Platform Engineer at Cytora'
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# Senior Platform Engineer at Cytora

- **Company:** Cytora
- **Location:** Eastern
- **Compensation:** $100k–$140k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cytora.com/7ec26d03-d3e5-44fc-8cc0-c647a18fe58d/application

**Skills:** AWS, GCP, Terraform, Terragrunt, Python, Lambda, SQS, SNS, S3, Aurora Serverless, GCP Vertex AI, GCP BigQuery, RDS Aurora Postgres, APIGW, SES, Cloudfront, Secret Manager, Certificate Manager, VPC configuration, Networking fundamentals

> Join the platform team to build and maintain the Underwriting Productivity Suite, a serverless web application. You will manage infrastructure on AWS and GCP, handle CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with product managers to drive digital transformation in the insurance sector.

## Job description

Shape the Industry and Your Career

At Cytora, now part of Applied Systems, 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.

## The Role

You will be helping to build Cytora’s Underwriting Productivity Suite, a serverless based web application that increases the efficiency and effectiveness of underwriters thereby reducing expense ratios and delivering profitable growth to our customers

More specifically, you will be joining the platform team, which is responsible for the infrastructure of our application, our monitoring systems and our CI/CD pipelines. We:

- Have single and multi tenant deployments across Europe, United States and Australia
- Have infrastructure deployed on AWS and GCP
- Manage our infrastructure as code, using terraform
- Use third party systems such us circleci, datadog, auth0, thoughspot
- Have the mid-term requirement to scale, and the short-term requirement to deliver really fast, so this engineer will need to have good intuition on the level of complexity our systems need.

Along with core technical skills, we are excited about colleagues who bring passion for the craft of inventing and building products from the ground up

This means providing feedback to product managers and the wider company, contributing to roadmaps, and bringing your creativity to bear by suggesting features and improvements based on your technical understanding of what is possible and needed.

Requirements:

- We are looking for someone who is customer-centric, values-driven, and collaborative with great communication skills
- Strong proven experience in serverless: Lambda/SQS/SNS/S3/Aurora Serverless/GCP Vertex AI/GCP BigQuery
- Strong experience using a range of AWS services but not limited to: RDS Aurora Postgres, APIGW, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, SES, Cloudfront, Secret Manager, Certificate Manager
- Experience building and maintaining multi-region deployments
- Terraform/Terragrunt experience as this is part of our stack with Single Tenant deployments
- Experience using an OOP language, we use Python
- Experience using Terraform
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals, including VPC configuration and security

Nice to haves:

- ECS and Fargate are a plus
- Experience designing both single tenancy and multi tenancy solutions
- Experience building and maintaining Kubernetes clusters using AWS EKS
- Maintaining CI/CD pipelines (we use CircleCI)
- Monitoring, we use Datadog logs, APMs, profiling, App security
- Prior experience using GCP is a plus, but not essential
- Awareness of GDPR compliant systems
- Experience building event-driven, serverless applications
- Cloudflare/Orca/Vanta

## Why Cytora

We’re building the future of insurance and we’re doing it together. At Cytora, now part of Applied Systems, 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

This role is remote and we are looking for individuals based in the East Coast

Additionally, this role is only suited for professionals currently based in the US and have full rights to work as we don't offer sponsorship at this stage.

Our targeted starting base salary in the United States for this position ranges from $100,000 to $140,000. To determine a new team member’s starting pay, we consider a variety of factors, including someone’s depth, breadth, and variety of experience, skills, and responsibilities. Depending on the role, team members may also be eligible to participate in additional compensation plans such as bonus and commission.

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, color, national origin, 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. [linkedin.com/company/cytora](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cytora)

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