Software Engineer - Internship

Akur8 is a young, dynamic, fast growing Insurtech that has been transforming insurance pricing and reserving with transparent Machine Learning since 2016.

Akur8 leverages the power of Transparent Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics to inject game-changing speed, performance and reliability into insurers’ pricing and reserving processes.

Since 2016 our skilled R&D team of Data Scientists, Software Engineers and Actuaries has developed unique AI algorithms that automate the insurance pricing process in an unprecedented way.

Our pricing solution is a SaaS platform which allows insurance companies to model their risks 10 times faster, with a higher predictive power than traditional methods. constituting a major game changer for the insurance industry.

Akur8 has already been selected:

• In CB Insights Top 50 World Insurtech Companies 2023
• In Insurtech Global’s Top 100 AIFinTech list 2023
• In Fintech Global’s Top 100 AIFinTech list 2023
• As No.24 in Sønr’s World Top 100 Insurtech Companies 2022
• As 3rd best overall (worldwide) in the CodinGame 2022 Software Engineering Fall Challenge

With 35 nationalities within our team, and offices in Paris, London, New York, Tokyo, Milan, Cologne, Atlanta and Montréal, Akur8's solution is international by design. Servicing more than 250+ clients across 4 continents and targeting all non-life insurance carriers, we focus on more mature markets for faster expansion.

To learn more about Akur8, and what we do, click here.

Akur8 is, in all senses of the term, an equal opportunities employer. Akur8 puts diversity, equality and inclusion at the heart of its values. We examine all applications based on equal skills and applying the principles of non-discrimination.

We’re looking for a Software Engineer for a 6-month internship (end of studies), who has a strong interest in cloud-computing, mathematical modelling and AI to help build our complex data-processing solution.

As part of our Engineering team you will contribute to the implementation of our machine-learning models used for risk modelling, demand modelling and price optimization; implementation of the design interface and user flows; the architecture of our databases and interaction with the cloud.

You'll join a motivated team, willing to share their knowledge and passion for advanced computer science and software development, where your typical missions will be:

• Reading and understanding the main cloud infrastructure components we use

• Familiarizing yourself with our tech stack
• Understanding our algorithms and business models

Continue with implementation:

• Implement an end-to-end feature leveraging new protocols . Integrate your findings in production.

• Implement reliable tests, use continuous integration and exploit at best AWS Cloud capabilities with our back-end engineers.

Your work will consist of:

• Strong global understanding of our client needs and the business objective of our features
• Design, build, integrate and maintain efficient, reusable and reliable code

We are looking for innovative and rigorous contributor from engineering schools and universities in the field of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, possessing the following attributes:

• IMPORTANT/ELIMINATORY: You are currently studying for your final year of a Masters Degree (Bac+5) in Computer Science and are looking for a 6-month end of studies internship / "stage de fin d'études" starting from January to May 2025

• Strong knowledge of an OOP language
• Excited about code craftsmanship, to build robust code using best practices
• Good knowledge of mathematics (in particular statistics)
• Strong problem solving skills: high level of rigour, integrity, curiosity and self-motivation

Additional, non-essential, elements that may make your profile stand out include:

• Good knowledge of Front end frameworks Angular, React, Vue etc. 
• Knowledge of cloud computing and in particular AWS
• Comfortable with Python 

Technology stack:

• Java 21 (Spring), Angular 18, Python 3, AWS, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker