Frontend Software Engineer

Akur8 is a fast-growing InsurTech scale-up on a mission to modernize how insurers assess, price, and manage risk.

Our next-generation SaaS platform combines transparent machine learning, predictive analytics, and smart product design to turn complex insurance workflows into scalable, data-driven systems.

Powered by expert engineering, data, product, and actuarial teams, Akur8 enables insurers to model risk up to 10x faster while maintaining transparency, explainability, and regulatory trust.

As our product suite expands, we are building an end-to-end platform supporting pricing, reserving, and forward-looking risk decisions — helping insurers operate efficiently in a complex environment.

Recognized globally, Akur8 has been featured in:

• CB Insights’ Insurtech 50 (2025)

• CNBC’s InsurTech Top 150 (2025)

• InsurTech100 Global Insurtech Top 100 (2025)

• Professional Equality Index 97/100 (2025)
  

With 40+ nationalities across 8 global offices, we serve 320+ clients across 4 continents while maintaining a strong engineering and product culture.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, fostering an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives help shape better products and decisions.

We’re looking for Front End Software Engineers to help build our complex SAAS solution alongside our world-class tech teams.

Our Engineering team is the driving force behind an exhilarating development journey, sculpting the gold standard in insurance pricing software according to our ambitious development roadmap.

You are a Software Engineer with Frontend expertise, with a client-first approach that will help us build our complex data-processing solution. You have an objective-driven mindset and you have proactivity solving problems that matter for our deliveries and to our clients. You possess a sharp curiosity to understand both the smallest details, and the general purpose of the features being developed. Your main responsibilities will include:

• Design and implement features that allow actuaries to better understand their pricing strategies.

• Develop mainly the Frontend components of our features using Angular

• Implement high-performance responsive user interfaces.

• Work closely with Machine Learning engineers to put in production new ML methods.

• Work closely with product and designers to refine features and prototypes.

• Ensure that the development is in line with clean code standards and our testing strategy.

• Close contact with clients to ensure maximum reactivity of your team.

Technology stack:

• Angular 20, Java 21 (Spring), Python 3, AWS, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker

Candidates must be team players with excellent interpersonal skills. They must also have solid, proven experience architecting and building commercial quality business software applications. They need to be a guarantor that Front end best coding practices are respected and followed in the squad and throughout the engineering team.

• Experience in Front End software development

• Understand client priorities & the need to find the right balance between fast delivery and code robustness

• Master Degree (Bac+5) from a top engineering school

• A fluent level of spoken English

Additional bonus:

• Experience in JAVA, Python, C# or another back end development language

• Interest in Machine Learning

• Experience using AWS

Important: You must possess an employment status: French or Schengen area nationality or a ‘carte de séjour’ that will allow work from our Paris office.

As a newcomer, you'll be joining a diverse, highly skilled and motivated team, with a strong Tech DNA, colleagues that are eager to share their knowledge and passion.

We care about strong teamwork and a positive day-to-day environment. The team regularly connects through optional activities such as team lunches, sports, karaoke, or occasional after-work gatherings.

In addition to this, we will provide you with:

• Competitive salary + annual bonus

• Hybrid office/home working policy

• 25 days of paid holidays + RTT

• Gym membership with Gymlib

• Excellent health insurance (including spouse and family coverage) with Alan

• Swile lunch vouchers (12,10€)

• Public transportation reimbursement (75%) + sustainable mobility allowance

• IT equipment allowance (500€)

• Sponsored crèche access with Babilou

• Free cafeteria with fresh fruit, drinks and snacks

• Great office in the heart of the 9th arrondissement of Paris