Machine Learning Engineer

Location: Atlanta, GA (hybrid)

Next Insurance is a fast-growing tech company based in Silicon Valley that is led by a team of experienced entrepreneurs with a history of successful outcomes. Our mission is to transform insurance for small businesses by combining world-class technology and phenomenal customer service to offer better insurance at a lower price. As the leading digital insurtech company transforming small business insurance, we are proud to have achieved a company valuation of $4 billion and total funding raised to more than $880 million! 

Next Insurance is looking for explorers who are filled with curiosity, have the desire to travel the unbeaten path, and realize new heights in providing small business owners with the peace of mind to run their businesses. If you move fast, and are customer-focused and willing to challenge the status quo, Next Insurance might just be your next journey.

We are looking for a driven Machine Learning Engineer to help us bring software development rigor to the ML life-cycle within the business insurance industry. As an experienced innovator partnering with the marketing and growth teams, this is a massive opportunity to drive high growth impact at a hyper-growth startup. Your job is to be a full stack ML engineer, supercharging all aspects of scaling Machine Learning at NEXT: application design and architecture, scalable deployment of inference solutions as APIs, data enrichment as a service, and model monitoring.

You will be joining an innovative division of NEXT based in Atlanta: Data Labs. The mandate of Data Labs is to build software and data solutions that meaningfully impact marketing, funnel, risk, and servicing/claims experiences.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that some underrepresented people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At NEXT, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

What You’ll Do: 

• Empower our team of data scientists to rapidly develop and deploy ML solutions.
• Leverage software engineering best-practices to create and deploy data-intensive and machine learning inference products.
• Understand the data and dig deep to extract actionable insights.
• Think creatively and outside the box to answer desired experimental questions as well as exposing opportunities to create business value.
• Work cross-functionally with marketing, engineering, product, senior management, and external partners.

What We Need: 

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in the complete software development life-cycle with demonstrated professional experience with machine learning
• Strong command of Python and the standard web development frameworks (e.g. Django, Flask, FastAPI) & fluency with database technologies, SQL, and Python data packages
• Demonstrated experience deploying models and applications to a cloud environment using tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Demonstrated experience with software engineering best-practices, such as Test-Driven Development and continuous integration/deployment pipelining
• Experience with ML-oriented data pipelining tools (dbt, Airflow, Prefect, DVC, etc.)

Unstoppable Qualities: 

• Experience in the insurance industry (strong fintech/lending experience will also be considered)
• Experience with GitLab

One of our core values is 'Play as a Team'; this means making sure everyone has an equal chance to participate and make a difference. We win by playing together. Next Insurance is an equal opportunity employer and prioritizes building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants of any type and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, genetic information or characteristic, gender identity and expression, veteran status, or other non-job related characteristics or other prohibited grounds specified in applicable federal, state, and local laws. Next's policy is to comply with all applicable laws related to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity and will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.