Accelerant is a data-driven risk exchange connecting specialty insurance underwriters with risk capital providers. Founded in 2018 by a group of longtime insurance industry executives and technology experts, our vision is to rebuild the way risk is exchanged – so that it works better, for everyone. 

For the underwriters we call Members, we deliver a full service offering that includes insights and analytics, distribution management, operational resources, and stable underwriting capacity. Our approach frees our Members to focus on profitable underwriting while growing their businesses. Our portfolio presents attractive, validated, and diversified source of specialty insurance premium to our risk capital provider partners.

Accelerant

About Accelerant Accelerant is a data-driven risk exchange connecting underwriters of specialty insurance risk with risk capital providers. Accelerant was founded in 2018 by a group of longtime insurance industry executives and technology experts who shared a vision of rebuilding the way risk is exchanged - so that it works better, for everyone. The Accelerant risk exchange does business across more than 20 different countries and 250 specialty products, and we are proud that our insurers have been awarded an AM Best A- (Excellent) rating. For more information, please visit www.accelerant.ai.
Key Responsibilities:- Design and build data-driven applications to support a live front end- Ability to work on a full stack teams alongside backend and frontend engineers- Apply software development best practices to the data world (test coverage, design patterns, CI/CD)- Use AI tooling effectively while retaining ownership of correctness and design- Implement effective metrics and monitoring processes- A commitment to learning and sharing knowledge
Required Skills/Experience:- 3+ years writing production code as a Data Engineer or Backend Engineer (Python)- Demonstrated ability to ship tested, reviewed code: comfortable debugging, reasoning about edge cases, and owning correctness- Moderate to proficient with data processing libraries and concepts- Understanding of database administration concepts- Moderate to Proficient in SQL- Experience with DataOps methodologies, tools, and processes
Desirable Skills:- Experience with Snowflake- Experience with DBT- Experience with AI (LLMs, skills, agents)- Experience building RESTful APIs or event driven applications- Experience in data warehouse development or database administration- General P&C insurance business knowledge
This position is available remote on UK or Eastern US / Canada timezone, candidates need to hold valid right to work for the respective location.

Senior Data Engineer

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