Data Engineer (f/m/d)

wefox is revolutionizing insurance by empowering the customer and delivering solutions for secured data-driven experiences. wefox focuses on making people safe – the core principle of insurance.

wefox is Europe’s leading insurtech that is reinventing insurance at scale, with a total of $235 million raised in 2019, making it the largest funding round by a European insurtech. wefox has already welcomed more than 350,000 clients in record time and has over 500 employees in Europe, works with numerous local brokers and is always improving and expanding on its network.

Role:
We are currently looking for a data engineer to join our team in Paris. The team is the wefox’s Advanced Innovation Team and our focus, as a cross-functional team, is to leverage machine learning to improve the customer experience, and to deliver innovative products like risk detection and risk prevention. As a data engineer you will be involved throughout the lifecycle of the development, with the responsibility of data workflows development: architecture, implementation, deployment and maintenance of data pipelines for machine learning.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, deploy, with your agile team, data pipelines to feed machine learning models.
• Contribute in all phases of the development life cycle, and take ownership of your deployed data architecture and data pipelines.
• Write well designed, testable and efficient code.
• Work closely with product owners, devops, machine learning engineers, software engineers in an agile cross-functional team.
• Develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Have a strategic and continuous improvement mentality.
• Love for new technologies, clean architecture, coding in a decoupled way.
• Keep abreast of industry news / updates and share your discoveries with others

What you bring:

• Strong development skills to work on data processing with Python and/or Scala and/or other programming languages.
• Knowledge and experience with data-related Python packages.
• 2+ years of experience in data science / data engineering.
• Experience with relational and non-relational DB.
• Experience with Docker, kubernetes, build and CI/CD tools is a plus
• Experience in code/system optimization is a plus
• Interest in machine learning.
• Experience in understanding product requirements.
• Embrace ownership, autonomy and agile methodology.
• Good English proficiency (Work in an international environment).

What we offer:
Now, we’ve gotten to the fun part, the part where you get to brag about your company, those perks your friends are so jealous of!

Here are some of them:

• Private Health and Life Insurance.
• Flexible working hours including some days remote option (after COVID).
• 26 working days of vacation + Flexidays (RTT) + 24th and 31st December.
• Seniority days: one day of extra holiday per employment year starting from the 2nd anniversary in the company (up to 30 days total holidays).
• Pension plan.
• Lunch vouchers.
• Discounted fitness memberships.
• 50% of your public transport costs reimbursed.
• A stack of the latest technologies and working gadgets.
• Free coffee, fruit and snacks, because we need fuel! (after COVID).
• Grants for training and coaching.

If you love a less-formal work environment, flexible paid time off, a great compensation package and benefits offering - and most of all, being the authentic you, get in touch, we want to meet you!

Your contact person for this role is Tony Veloso

We are an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

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