Senior Back-End Developer

  • Full-time
  • Verisk Business: Extreme Event Solutions

Company Description

AIR Worldwide (AIR), a Verisk business, provides risk modeling solutions that make individuals, businesses, and society more resilient to extreme events. In 1987, AIR Worldwide founded the catastrophe modeling industry and today models the risk from natural catastrophes, terrorism, pandemics, casualty catastrophes, and cyber attacks, globally. Insurance, reinsurance, financial, corporate, and government clients rely on AIR’s advanced science, software, and consulting services for catastrophe risk management, insurance-linked securities, site-specific engineering analyses, and agricultural risk management. AIR Worldwide, is headquartered in Boston with additional offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. To learn more about AIR, please visit us at: www.air-worldwide.com. We are proud to be a part of the Verisk family of companies!  

At the heart of what we do is help clients manage risk. Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) provides data and insights to our customers in insurance, energy and the financial services markets so they can make faster and more informed decisions.    

 Our global team uses AI, machine learning, automation, and other emerging technologies to collect and analyze billions of records. We provide advanced decision-support to prevent credit, lending, and cyber risks. In addition, we monitor and advise companies on complex global matters such as climate change, catastrophes, and geopolitical issues.    

But why we do our work is what sets us apart. It stems from a commitment to making the world better, safer and stronger.    

It’s the reason Verisk is part of the UN Global Compact sustainability initiative. It’s why we made a commitment to balancing 100 percent of our carbon emissions. It’s the aim of our “returnship” program for experienced professionals rejoining the workforce after time away. And, it’s what drives our annual Innovation Day, where we identify our next first-to-market innovations to solve our customers’ problems.    

At its core, Verisk uses data to minimize risk and maximize value. But far bigger, is why we do what we do.   

At Verisk you can build an exciting career with meaningful work; create positive and lasting impact on business; and find the support, coaching, and training you need to advance your career.  We’ve been recognized by Forbes as a World’s Best Employer and a Best Employer for Women, testaments to our culture of engagement and the value we place on an inclusive and diverse workforce.  

Job Description

As a member of the software development team, you will help build, enhance and troubleshoot AIR’s casualty analytics platform, Arium. You are expected to work in an agile team to help plan and design new features, write clean, testable and performing code, provide automated tests, as well as resolve customer issues.

If you enjoy having influence and taking responsibility, you are on the best way to follow your dreams with our team.

Your responsibilities:

  • Be a key member of the Agile team in the delivery of our suite of innovative applications.
  • Design and develop our infrastructure as a code to produce software that is scalable, robust, and efficient.
  • Design and develop the back-end microservices and API
  • Proactively improve development process by implementing the best practices for SDLC
  • Identify and propose process and system improvements
  • Act as an interface between software engineers and other stakeholders in the organization

If you love cloud-based solutions, are eager to build cloud-native scalable systems and you want to work for one of the world's most effective and responsible data analytics company's then this is the role for you! 

Qualifications

Must-have qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a technical discipline
  • Several years of hands-on software development experience in the AWS cloud environment, preferably with CDK
  • Hands-on experience with back-end development, preferably with JavaScript/Typescript
  • A strong communicator and problem solver
  • Good command of English in a software engineering context

Nice-to-have qualifications

  • Experience with serverless microservice architecture including AWS Lambda, Step Functions, S3, API Gateway, RDS
  • Software development with Python/JAVA
  • Relational/NoSQL databases knowledge
  • Experience with agile development frameworks (SCRUM, Kanban)
  • Practical skills with continuous integration/deployment
  • Basic understanding of probability and/or insurance-related concepts

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Additional Information

Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer. 

All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability. 

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