Software Engineer - Craft, Domain Discovery & Software Design - Hybrid or Remote from France / EMEA

Who are we?

Wakam is a B2B2C insurance company that creates white-label insurance solutions via its Play&Plug® technology platform for more than 150 distribution partners.

We provide most of our insurance products through API, and hosts white label insurance solutions via our Play&Plug technology platform.

With a footprint spanning 32 countries and revenue of more than €900 million in 2023, mostly generated outside France, Wakam is the European leader in digital and embedded insurance.

Strongly committed to social responsibility, Wakam is a mission-driven company dedicated to enabling transparent and impactful insurance".

Mission & Responsibilities

We are seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer to join our Corporate IT team within a Tech community of approximately of 50 people.

This role will report directly to the Head of Engineering.

The team plays a facilitating role, essential within our organization, being responsible for the integration and maintenance of various data flows across multiple business domains such as accounting, finance, or claims reconciliation.

• Using data management tools such as Databricks, PowerBI, or Excel.
• Configuring and deploying automated workflows through Azure Logic Apps.
• Executing numerous manual tasks.

With the company's growth and increasing business volume, it becomes crucial to scale up both the business and technological scope.

Main identified current pain points to solve :

• Redundancy, errors, and inefficiencies in manual tasks.
• Lack of observability across the entire IT Corporate scope.
• Diminishing business dimension in favor of technical complexity.
• Single points of failure threatening system sustainability.
• Growing complexity of operational-level maintenance.

Challenges :

By joining a multidisciplinary team, the main issues to address will be :

• Elevating automation of workflows to a better level of maintainability and scalability.
• Optimizing workflow efficiency by reducing errors and improving processing times.
• Reappropriation of workflows by business subdomains.
• Focus of business experts on tasks with higher added value.
• Support of data management tools migration.

Profile requirements

• Engineering degree with a minimum of 10 years of experience in information system design.
• Ability to identify risks in a value chain and propose appropriate solutions.
• Knowledge of the .NET ecosystem is real plus but the ability to write understandable and maintainable code is a primar priority
• Experience with cloud-provisioned environments, especially Azure is a plus but building, deploying and operating agnostic systems is essential
• Proficiency in English and French (professional level).

Working mindset :

• Flexibility and simplicity prevail in daily tasks.
• Comfortable with collaboration and open communication.
• Promotion of collective intelligence and collaborative decision-making.
• Desire to invest in a modern and dynamic scale-up company, in a cross-functional role that will offer the opportunity to work directly with all business lines

Recruitment steps :

• Fit call with our Lead Recruiter
• Technical interview with the Head Of Engineering
• Interview with the Head of IT Corporate Functions and a team member
• Culture fit meeting with our Head of Talent

Positive energy, agility, and team spirit are essential to support Wakam in its hyper-growth!

You have the Wakam mindset? Join us!

More about us

Our culture? Free to impact . A culture where everything is possible, where all ideas are taken into consideration, where everyone has an impact on the transformation of insurance! Hungry for freedom?

Thirsty for autonomy? If you are adventurous and like challenges, then the Wakam adventure might be made for you!

Discover on our website who we really are with the 11 cultural markers that so well describe us!

What we are looking for ?

Mindset compatibility with our Free to Impact’ culture :

• Think big
• Biased for action
• Curious and eager to learn
• Can say no and find solutions
• Aims for the moon (but please don’t stick on the moon)
• And above all : have fun working together !

Good to know !

• Wakam is not based on a hierarchy but on a methodology where everyone finds their role and knows their objectives.
• With a flat hierarchical system and a highly collaborative operating model, Wakam is an extremely agile and transparent company.
• Every last Friday of the month, it's Free.day @Wakam, a day without meetings to take a step aside and dedicate ourselves to skills sponsorship or other activities (because we are curious, I remind you).
• Full-remote is a reality at Wakam (there is even one Wakamee who works from his sailing boat ) with our Wakam From Anywhere (WFA) program.
• Last but not least : we are nice and we have fun! (you'll find out by yourself )

At Wakam, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please feel free to reach out to your recruiter.