
Akur8 is transforming the non-life insurance industry with its innovative suite of pricing and reserving solutions. Our Next Gen Pricing and Reserving Platform combines cutting-edge technology with actuarial excellence to drive business value, bringing speed, performance, transparency, and reliability to insurers of all sizes. Akur8 serves 300 customers across 40+ countries, including AXA, Generali, Munich Re, MAPFRE, HDI, Tokio Marine, and MS&AD. Over 3000 actuaries use Akur8 daily to build their pricing models and reserving projections across all lines of business.

Akur8 is transforming the non-life insurance industry with its innovative suite of pricing and reserving solutions. Our Next Gen Pricing and Reserving Platform combines cutting-edge technology with actuarial excellence to drive business value, bringing speed, performance, transparency, and reliability to insurers of all sizes. Akur8 serves 300 customers across 40+ countries, including AXA, Generali, Munich Re, MAPFRE, HDI, Tokio Marine, and MS&AD. Over 3000 actuaries use Akur8 daily to build their pricing models and reserving projections across all lines of business.
What they do: Transparent ML pricing and reserving platform for non-life insurers
Founded: 2018
Scale: Serves ~300 insurers across 40+ countries; 200+ employees
Recent funding: $120M Series C (Sept 2024); total funding reported ~$180M
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Insurance pricing and reserving for non-life insurance
2018
Insurance
€8M (~$8.9M)
$30M
Brought total funding to ~$42M
$25M
Brought total funding to $60M+ at the time
$120M
Reported total funding reached $180M
“Guidewire has taken a strategic equity stake (strategic investor participation reported)”
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
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 a Python engineer who loves translating complex mathematical and actuarial models into high-performance code and optimizing numerical computations. You’ll join a newly formed team building a cloud-native product for the insurance industry. Working closely with actuarial and data experts, this role focuses on the accurate, efficient implementation of domain-specific business rules , with a strong emphasis on numerical performance.
Code quality matters: implementations must be stable, readable, testable, and highly performant . A strong understanding of vectorized operations, parallelization, and efficient data structures is essential.
This role focuses on optimization and numerical libraries rather than system architecture or broad full-stack development. What You’ll Do
CORE TECHNICAL FOCUS NUMERICAL COMPUTING
DATA & STORAGE
STATISTICAL & REPORTING TOOLS (Supporting Role)
ENGINEERING PRACTICES (CROSS-CUTTING)
TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT & ENGINEERING WORKFLOW TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT
ENGINEERING WORKFLOW
Candidates must be team players with strong interpersonal skills, as well as:
BONUS skills (experience you may not have, but which will make you stand out if you do)
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. But it’s not all work, you’ll also be part of a dynamic team that enjoys spending time together and having fun, including karaoke, team lunches, playing sports as well as the occasional ‘happy hour’.
In Addition To This, We Will Provide You With
GitHub for version control, pull requests, and code review
Engineers manage branches with an appropriate level of complexity
Write clear commits and pull requests that are easy to review
Actively participate in peer code reviews
Jira for work tracking and delivery
Work planned and delivered via well-defined stories
Engineers estimate work, understand story points, and proactively advance or close tickets
Ownership includes keeping ticket status up to date without reminders
Confluence for technical documentation and shared specifications
Engineers contribute to and consume documentation as part of normal development