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 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.
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.