Data Engineer

The future of insurance starts with AI. To date, Shift Technology's AI-powered products have benefitted more than 300 million policyholders globally by reducing underwriting risk, identifying more fraud, and automating critical tasks throughout the claims process.  Shift harnesses the power of AI to enable the world’s leading insurance organizations to make better decisions. Our products help insurers improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and deliver superior customer experiences to their policyholders.  Our culture is built on innovation, trust, and a drive to transform the insurance industry by imagining and innovating solutions that impact insurers and their customers - like you! We come from more than 50 different countries and cultures and together we are creating the future of insurance.

Our Engineering team lies at the core of the value we offer to our customers. We solve complex problems not only within our squads but also by working collaboratively with other teams across the organization.

We’re reshaping the way data drives decision-making by building powerful, scalable software and data platforms. Whether you're passionate about distributed systems, building APIs, or enabling data-driven insights, you'll find exciting opportunities here.

Our tech stack includes .NET Core (C#), Python, MS SQL Server, ElasticSearch, Spark, ADF and more. We are also progressing towards distributed data systems on cloud platforms, with exciting challenges in both bulk and real-time processing.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Develop and maintain scalable data models and data access layer frameworks that serve as the foundation for centralized databases and downstream applications.
• Build and optimize ETL pipelines to ingest, transform, and integrate various data sources, ensuring data consistency, quality, and availability, leveraging Apache Spark, .NET libraries, Azure Data Factory, DBT.
• Contribute to Agile development processes by participating in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives to ensure continuous delivery and alignment with team goals.
• Collaborate closely with the product team to translate roadmap priorities into technical designs and deliverables that meet business and customer needs.
• Work hand-in-hand with Data Scientists to create and enhance frameworks that simplify customer data integration and support advanced analytics and machine learning workflows.
• Participate in code reviews, deployment processes, and monitoring to ensure high-quality production releases and smooth operation of data pipelines and frameworks.

WHAT YOU BRING

We are looking for candidates with a combination of the following experience, skills and mindset to help us build excellent technology solutions for our clients:

• Experience: You have at least 2 years of professional experience in Data Engineering or Software Engineering focused on data-related projects. This role is targeted at mid-level engineers who have demonstrated the ability to deliver production-quality solutions and are ready to take on new challenges.
• Code-savvy, either by having a degree in computer science and having developed some apps with actual users – writing scripts for models and notebooks is not enough at Shift, we thrive on people who can write maintainable, production-quality code that will run everyday without breaking.
• Ability to produce optimized and stable code which will smoothly run in a production context; you’re familiar with algorithm complexity assessment; you can write unit tests and integration tests; you think about potential problems and edge cases.
• Knowledge and experience using object-oriented concepts; you can design class diagrams and use common object-oriented design patterns naturally. C# knowledge is a plus.
• Data-oriented mindset; you have strong data exploration skills using standard Python libraries; you can dive deep into datasets to identify optimal ways to process and transform data.
• Good practical spirit, eager to understand how new systems work, and able to troubleshoot and improve them; when hitting an unexpected problem, you are ready to dig in to solve the problem yourself.
• Teamwork capabilities; you are comfortable working with others and you have good communication skills. You can collaborate effectively with the Product team to refine and clarify technical specifications, ensuring alignment between business needs and engineering solutions. You proactively maintain clear, thorough documentation to support knowledge sharing and collaboration across distributed and remote teams.
• English speakers; we are an international company with offices in many countries and 40+ nationalities, the Shift working language is English.
• This position is based in Paris, so knowledge of French is a big plus.

Hiring Process

• Talent Acquisition interview
• 2x Technical interviews
• Technical Lead interview
• Hiring Manager interview

To support our permanent, full time employees at every stage of their careers and lives, we provide a competitive total rewards and benefits package. Here are the global benefits we’d like to highlight:

• Flexible remote and hybrid working options
• Competitive Salary and a variable component tied to personal and company performance
• Company equity
• Focus Fridays, a half-day each month to focus on learning and personal growth
• Generous PTO and paid holidays
• Mental health benefits 
• 2 MAD Days per year (Make A Difference Days for paid volunteering)

Additional benefits may be offered by country - ask your recruiter for more information. Intern and Apprentice position are eligible for some of these benefits - ask your recruiter for more details.

At Shift we strive to be a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from and hire people who will contribute to the diversity of our company, without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, age, national or ethnic origin, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other non-merit criteria.

Shift Technology is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our application and employment process. Should you require accommodation, please email accommodation@shift-technology.com and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

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