About Convr: Convr empowers P&C carriers with digital end-to-end underwriting management powered with a patented-AI decisioning engine that transforms the underwriting experience.
Carriers of all sizes, including many of Top 10 carriers, trust Convr to help them transform their underwriting experience with straight through processing and more complete data to make better decisions. Convr's Underwriting Command center brings together data, discovery, and decision intelligence (Data. Discovery. Decision. ™) through its patented machine-learning algorithm engine so carriers are able to reduce application questions by over 70% and increase underwriting productivity by 10x. To learn more, visit www.convr.com . Follow Convr on Twitter and LinkedIn . Our mission is to e mpower commercial carriers to digitally transform with an end-to-end underwriting management platform that enables superior performance, optimal efficiency, and world-class customer experiences from submission to quote.
About The Role: Our Data Science team is responsible for using thousands of data sources to build high performing machine learning models that help our customers be better underwriters. We are looking for a python engineer who is interested in transitioning into Data Science. Bonus points if you have some customer facing experience! Convr builds great software on top of all that data and are busy architecting the next generation of APIs, machine learning models, orchestration technologies and performance upgrades that allow us to work with more data, faster. We code together in a working Agile environment, and believe in always bettering ourselves while learning on-the-job. This role reports to our Chief Analytics Officer.
The most successful candidates:

• 2+ years professional experience as a Python developer
• MS in Computer science preferred or BS in Computer Science with 2+years experience as a Software Engineer
• Data Science coursework preferred
• Experience in RESTful services and APIs (REST a must/GraphQL a plus)
• Experience with databases (Elastic/Snowflake/Cassandra/RDBMS/MariaDB/MySQL a must, NoSQL or graph database experience a plus)
• Experience working on Linux, Unix based deployments
• Working knowledge of Git, JIRA
• Loves to produce beautiful, tested code. TDD experience a plus.
• Analyzing, and validating a variety of input data sources; identifying the relationship among source data objects.
• Developing common definitions of sourced data; defining reusable approach to data integration
• Designing efficient approach to processing third party data using Python
• Designing efficient approach to analyzing data-at-scale using Python
• Proactively identify process improvements and ways to increase development efficiency in the organization
• Ability to multi-tasking and managing competing priorities while meeting assigned deadlines
• Gains knowledge on the organization's processes as they evolve and change; recommending changes
• Effective communication in technical concepts and solutions
• Enjoys working in a highly feedback oriented team setting
• Motivated by the "always on" startup environment where we can constantly learn and iterate quickly

Responsibilities

• Architect software solutions for complex high volume data environments
• Develop containerized microservices using Python
• Collaborate with software development team to fix and improve existing applications
• Monitor and assess current system performance
• Identify scalability issues and opportunities
• Support software testers and application engineers during deployments and maintenance
• Provide support for testing/development/staging environments
• Create testing strategies and procedures for all core components
• Use both on-premises and cloud-native services
• Create and maintain documentation for new and existing systems

Additional preferred topics:

• Proficiency in big data storage solutions
• Knowledge of big data analysis and machine learning
• Experience developing client/device monitoring systems

Why Join Convr?

• Full Transparency. We believe in open communication with our team and clients.
• Excellent work-life balance. We believe in flexibly because "life" happens! (unlimited PTO!)
• Team mentality. We believe in "All Hands on Deck"! Helping one another regardless of department.
• Everyone knows your name. We are a small company of ~50 employees. You will not be just a number!
• Growth. We believe in challenging yourself to develop your career.
• We are going places! We have a passionate team taking Convr to the next level!

Are you ready to make a life-changing impact on the people behind the business?