About the Role
Within our IT Resilience unit, we develop the platforms, integrations and capabilities that help Swiss Re understand and manage its complex technology landscape. This is a hands‐on senior role with genuine scope to influence how we engineer solutions. You will work across backend services, integrations and automation, strengthen engineering resilience across the team, mentor less experienced engineers and help us build new capabilities through AI Agents and intelligent automation. Design and develop reliable backend services, APIs, integrations, and automation, selecting technologies based on the problem and desired outcome Work across different languages, platforms, and technologies, applying strong engineering principles rather than being constrained to a particular stack Strengthen engineering resilience and contingency across our technology landscape, with the versatility to contribute to backend services and data integration or transformation workloads when required Work with enterprise data and databases to support integration, transformation, automation and application requirements Provide strong technical and design input, working alongside our Solutions Architect and engineering colleagues to translate complex business and IT resilience challenges into pragmatic, scalable, and maintainable solutions Build and operate software using modern engineering practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, containerisation, observability and cloud deployment Mentor junior engineers and help raise engineering standards, providing constructive technical challenge and guidance on design, code quality, testing and problem solving You will be joining the Service Asset & Configuration Management (SACM) team, part of Swiss Re's IT Resilience unit. The team builds and operates capabilities that provide trusted information about Swiss Re's technology assets, applications and their relationships, supporting technology management, operational resilience,



and informed decision‐making across the organisation. It is a collaborative, curious team that values strong engineering, continuous learning, and the opportunity to make a real impact. 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with the ability to operate confidently at Senior Engineer level, including a strong foundation in backend software engineering covering APIs, integrations and service-based or distributed architectures ~ Professional development experience with Python and Go, with sufficient engineering depth to contribute effectively to solutions using either language, and a demonstrated ability to learn and become productive with unfamiliar technologies or stacks ~ Good working knowledge of SQL and relational databases, including data models, queries and transformations, along with experience contributing to data integration, transformation, or ETL-style workloads as part of broader software solutions ~ Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP, combined with a solid understanding of modern software engineering practices including automated testing, CI/CD, source control, and production support ~ Docker, Kubernetes or similar container platforms Experience with data pipelines, integrations or data processing at scale Monitoring and observability platforms such as Datadog, Grafana or Prometheus Frontend or server-side JavaScript technologies such as Angular, React or For Spain the base salary range for this position is between EUR 60,000 and EUR 100,000 (for a full‐time role). In addition to your base salary, you may be eligible for additional rewards and benefits including an attractive performance‐based bonus. Swiss Re is one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance‐based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. In our inclusive and adaptable environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.

📌 Senior Backend Engineer (Comunidad de Madrid)
🏢 Swiss Re
📍 Comunidad de Madrid