Machine Learning Engineer, Zego
Telematics
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1+ day a week in office
Commercial motor insurance provider
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Commercial motor insurance provider
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
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1+ day a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide businesses and people with insurance they control, saving them both time and money.
Role
Who you are
- Previous experience in a similar role, working with Data Scientists
- You have delivered data-driven applications in production at scale with Python
- You bring previous experience working with large amounts of tabular data (e.g. pandas, Polars, Spark)
- You can write clean, performant Python code and perform code reviews
- You have experience working with AWS and a variety of AWS services (or other cloud providers)
- You understand machine learning concepts and have experience applying them
- You have a collaborative approach to working with team members and enjoy solving problems in a cross-functional, diverse and distributed team
Desirable
- Python-based data orchestration tools such as Airflow or Flyte
- Experience with sensor or signal data
- Experience with C# or Scala
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced Machine Learning Engineer to join our innovative Telematics team
- Supporting our Data Scientists in the design, development and deployment of new features, models and services that help us understand driving behaviour
- Building reliable, resilient, and observable services and pipelines
- Solving problems with data and software across the whole project lifecycle from inception, requirements, design, and shipping, through to operation and ongoing evolution
- Collaborating across teams and disciplines to deliver solutions that make a real business impact
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Company benefits
- Truly flexible approach to work, enabling Zegons to manage their work-life balance
- £1,000 contribution towards your travel to the office or learning and development
- Share options enabling all Zegons to become shareholders
- £1,000 contribution towards your travel to the office or learning and development
- Company-paid private medical insurance, including dental & optical cover
- Company-paid life insurance and income protection insurance
- Company pension scheme
- A wide range of perks and discounts through PerkBox
- Up to 15 company-paid coaching or therapy sessions a year
- Cycle to Work scheme
- 25 days annual leave (excl. bank holidays) with the opportunity to buy up by 5 additional days
- Employee Assistance Programme offering 24/7 confidential advice line for health, legal & bereavement support (and loads more)
- Enhanced family leave, with 6 months fully paid maternity leave and 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
- Up to 3 months sabbatical leave with one month paid after 3 years of service
- Trans and non-binary policy including additional paid leave for transitioning medical treatment
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2021
$150m
SERIES C
Jun 2019
$42m
SERIES B
Total funding: $210.2m
Our take
Zego was early to see the trend towards the gig economy. It was one of the first companies to offer unique insurance to workers in the space (their first products were focused on transport-related insurance for food delivery workers).
The traditional rigid model of insurance is no longer fit for purpose. The world is becoming more urbanised, and the vehicle economy in particular is moving away from traditional ownership to shared use.
Success in this space requires strong partnerships with big underwriters, so there's defensibility for the companies that crack it. Zego is off to a good start here as one of the first movers, having struck up partnerships with huge underwriters like RSA.
Zego is the first insurtech company in the UK to be awarded a licence to underwrite its own insurance products. This allows them to provide innovative policies, alongside working with their insurer partners.
The company is aiming big. The CEO recently said they expect to be bigger than Allianz, the $100bn insurance giant, by 2030. They launched in Spain, France and Belgium in 2019 and are planning further expansion across Europe in 2020.
In September 2019, Zego sold more than 100 million hours of flexible insurance policies - equivalent to 250m pizza deliveries. This shows the huge presence they now have in the market.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle