Data Engineer - Scientific Engine (Airflow, DVC) - CDI

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Descartes Underwriting
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ABOUT DESCARTES UNDERWRITING

Descartes was born out of the conviction that climate change calls for a revolutionary approach in insurance to better protect corporations, governments, and vulnerable communities. We offer a new generation of parametric insurance that builds resilience against the full spectrum of climate and emerging risks. Utilizing Machine Learning and real-time monitoring from satellite imagery & IoT, our state-of-the-art climate tech provides innovative coverage for all trade sectors in all regions of the world. After a successful Series B raise of $120M USD, Descartes Underwriting is proud to be recognized among the French Tech Next40 and launched Descartes Insurance, a ‘full stack’ insurer licensed to underwrite risk by the French Regulator (ACPR). With a growing corporate client base (350+ and counting) - our diverse team is headquartered in Paris and operates out of our 13 global offices in North America, Europe, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. 

ABOUT YOUR ROLE

Due to our consistent growth, we are expanding our Data, Software and DevOps team. We are seeking profiles dedicated to data engineering. At the core of the development of our scientific engine modeling climate phenomena, your main missions will be to create, improve and maintain the data pipelines used to train our model and infer the different scenario to make a climate risk assessment. You will have to take initiative and assess the viability of proof of concept projects.

You will have to work with data scientists and software engineers to run and develop our models. You will be working along DevOps engineers to reliably put models in production and selected the compute/store instance needed to perform these tasks. Your secondary mission will be to automate the flow of information between the tech and business to monitor climate events.

🔔 KEY MISSIONS 🔔

  • Setup, automate, maintain and update:
    • Connections to external and internal APIs
    • Data preparation process
    • Model training and inference process
    • Data storage process
    • Associated CI/CD pipelines
    • Associated package versioning and releasing pipeline
    • Modularization of code base
    • Notification tools to inform the team of the status of the operations
  • Setup data storage, data processing and data visualizing tools, by :
    • Assessing the pains and needs of the teams
    • Benchmarking the open source and private solutions
    • Assessing the security, price and reliability of data architecture
    • Following the development the evolution of technologies on the topic
    • Forecasting the usage of the tools
    • Tracking the cost of the tools
  • Participate in:
    • Tech stack selection
    • Discussions with tech partners
    • Training of software and underwriting teams
    • Support and debug of internal users

TECH STACK 🖥

  • Cloud provider: GCP
  • Code versioning tool: Git + Gitlab
  • OS: Linux
  • Container: Docker
  • Container orchestrator: Kubernetes
  • Website architecture: LAMP
  • Code base: Python
  • Notification tool: Slack

DATA STACK 🗄

  • Types: images, timeseries,
  • Storage: GCP bucket
  • Version: DVC (roll out in progress)
  • Pipeline: Airflow (PoC stage)
  • Data base: to be setup depending on the use cases

In our project, data is collected by sensors (satellite, weather station, IoT). We don’t work with personal or sensitive data, in most cases the data is publicly available (earthquake magnitude, cyclone track, precipitation …).

EQUIPMENT 🖱

  • Laptop: Dell Latitude 7530
  • OS: you decide

ABOUT YOU 

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS 👩💻👨💻

[Hard skills]

  • Knowledge of the tech stack or equivalent tools
  • Experience converting python code to efficient data engineering tools (eg: spark)
  • Experience with Docker
  • Experience with a cloud provider (GCP, AWS or azure)
  • Experience automating a CI/CD pipeline
  • Good knowledge in English and fluency in French

[Soft skills]

  • Desire to train junior developers and explain CI/CD and cloud tools
  • Desire to suggest improvements to the architecture

[Nice-to-have]

  • Experience working data science project or scientific code
  • Experience with Kubernetes
  • Experience in HPC
  • Contribution to an open source project

MINDSET 💥

  • Strong interest with climate issue (it’s not a hoax, many people suffer from it)
  • Being comfortable to work alongside corporate insurers (some still wear suits 👔)
  • You enjoy CI/CD automation (or at least appreciate the elegance of a well-crafted pipeline)
  • Strong team spirit and ability to work (you’ll have to review code and have your code reviewed)
  • Rigorous, creative and meticulous mind (we handle large insurance, we take our time)
  • Strong desire to learn (there’s no limitation to the tech used, we’re happy to test and learn new tools)
  • Eagerness to work in a multi-cultural environment (policies and teams are from all around the world 🗺️)

WHY JOIN DESCARTES UNDERWRITING?

  • Join a company with a true purpose – help us help our clients be more resilient towards climate risks;
  • A competitive salary, bonus and benefits (Premium Alan health insurance, Swile restaurant vouchers, Navigo reimbursement etc.);
  • The opportunity to grow in your role, as the company does;
  • Commitment from Descartes to it’s staff of continued learning and development (think annual seminars, training etc.);
  • Be part of a collaborative, diverse team where your ideas are heard;
  • A paid referral scheme for successfully referring peers;
  • Frequent team events.


OUR COMMUNITY

At Descartes Underwriting, we are committed to fighting against all forms of discrimination and for equal opportunities. We foster an inclusive work environment that respects all differences.

With equal skills, all our positions are open to people with disabilities.

HOW TO APPLY?

If you want to develop your skills and work in a friendly start-up atmosphere, don't hesitate and send us your application!

https://www.descartesunderwriting.com/careers/

If you don’t check all the requirements in the description, don’t worry. We can try to make some room for you within the company if you’re motivated to work on climate risk.


RECRUITMENT PROCESS

  • Step 1: Call and HR Interview with our Talent Recruiter
  • Step 2: Technical project submitted via GitHub
  • Step 3: Technical interview
  • Step 4: Manager interview
  • Step 5: Final round interview with the team
    (Candidates can opt to have the manager interview before the technical project and interview)

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