The Company

Cover Genius is a Series E insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com, Intuit, Uber, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip and SeatGeek. We’re also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee. Our partners integrate with XCover, our award-winning insurance distribution platform, to embed protection for millions of customers worldwide each year.

Our team and products have been recognized with dozens of awards including by the Financial Times which ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest-growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commit itself to diverse cultural programs, in particular “CG Gives” which makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities.

Our People are

Bold, Authentic, Purposeful and Inspired

Our People are not

Perfect, Traditional, Complacent or Cautious

About the role

As a Python Configuration Engineer on our Platform Configuration Team, you will lead and coordinate the development, testing and execution of new insurance products across multiple verticals.

Working closely with stakeholders, such as our Technology, Actuarial, Data, Insurance and Partnership teams, you will build market-leading insurance products. Using ‘XCover’, our Policy Administration System, you will create products in an easy-to-use API format to deliver a seamless integration experience for our global Partners.

What will your day look like? You will...

Leverage your technical experience to build insurance products and design API endpoints with our Partner’s technical requirements.
Create and execute comprehensive API test plans prior to product launch.
Work with front-end & back-end Product Managers to gather and communicate requirements for additional product features, across all XCover platforms.
Support the continuous development of our Policy Administration System, QA & testing frameworks.
Support the Finance and Data team with robust reporting configuration and ensure timely delivery of financial reporting.
Develop trusted advisor status and strong relationships with internal stakeholders, such as Insurance, Data, Actuarial and Product teams.

To help us level up, you'll ideally have:

2+ years' experience in business analysis or as a programmer.
Experience in Python scripting, SQL and spreadsheets (Excel, Google Sheets).
Experience using Web APIs with tools such as Postman and cURL.
Experience with API testing frameworks.
Experience reading and understanding technical documentation such as API Documents, Process Flow diagrams etc
Ability to understand technical challenges and communicate optimal solutions in a clear, concise manner (verbally and written).
Strong numerical and analytical ability.
Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, A postgraduate degree and/or record of academic achievement is also desirable

Why Cover Genius?

Cover Genius not only cares about being the best in our industry, we care about our team. We’re a business that understands life can be fluid and so we flex to ensure we provide the environment to suit that. What does that mean?

• Flexible Work Environment - Our teams are hybrid. We work from home on a Wednesday and Thursday and attend the office on Monday, Tuesday and Friday with flexibility around start/finish times.

• Employee Stock Options - we want our people to share in our success, we reward them with ownership for their contribution in creating a world-class company.

• Work with like-minded people who are passionate about both the work we're doing and giving back. Our CG Gives programs enables us to all become philanthropists through our peer recognition and rewards system.

• Social Initiatives - pictures speak a thousand words!

Sound interesting? If you think you have the best composition of the above, send us your resume and let's chat!

* Cover Genius promotes diversity and inclusivity. We don't tolerate discrimination, demeaning treatment of anyone, or harassment due to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

By submitting your application, you acknowledge that we may collect, store and process your personal data for recruitment purposes. To ensure a fair evaluation, we may use AI to assist in sorting applications, but all final decisions are made by our hiring team and no candidate dispositions are automated. We will keep your information on file for three years from the date of your application. For detailed information about how we handle your data and our use of AI, please review our full P rivacy Policy.