Lead Engineer, Underwriting & Pricing Ecosystem (all genders)

Job description

80–100%, Winterthur / Smart Working

Shape your future with us! Every success story begins with believing in yourself. At AXA, we see ourselves as a partner who stands beside you and believes in you. We challenge and support you, proactively showing you opportunities for your future. We encourage you and give you the freedom to bring together the things that matter to you. With your commitment and individual contribution, this becomes a forward-looking partnership—for you, for us, and for our customers, not just now but for the long term.

At AXA, you will find a culture where you can fully develop your strengths. We value critical thinking and innovative contributions, regardless of hierarchy. Write your own success story with us. Know You Can.

Around 600 software and systems developers work across Switzerland in Data, Technology & Innovation, developing tomorrow’s technology in-house. We also collaborate in global teams and networks, integrate the latest tools, organize hackathons, and work in self-organizing agile product teams that take end-to-end responsibility.

What you can expect

• Share responsibility for the overall system connecting AI-based underwriting solutions (Agentic Offering, UW Workbench, Automation Tasks), pricing and discount management (Pricing Engine), and core IT—from architecture through production operations.
• Actively shape and develop interfaces and integrations between these systems, creating a robust, scalable, maintainable ecosystem that delivers measurable value to the P&C business.
• Work closely with data scientists, actuaries, AI engineers, and business stakeholders in underwriting and pricing. Bridge technical and business domains and turn complex requirements into working solutions.
• As a lead, act as a sounding board, source of ideas, and technical conscience for the team. Establish best practices, support code reviews, and help develop a shared engineering culture.
• Track relevant developments in software engineering, cloud, and AI, assess them critically, and make them useful to your team and stakeholders as a grounded thought leader.
• Work deliberately at the intersection of innovation and stability: question assumptions, bring forward ideas, and have the courage to ask difficult questions—where the best solutions begin.

What you bring

• Several years of experience as a software engineer or AI engineer, with a strong record of designing, integrating, and operating complex distributed systems in production.
• Experience developing and operating Python backend applications (e.g. FastAPI, Flask), and bringing APIs, data pipelines, and AI components together cleanly.
• Systems-level architectural thinking and decisions that account for latency, cost, security, and maintainability.
• Cloud-native concepts, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), infrastructure as code, and CI/CD are part of your toolkit. GCP experience, especially Vertex AI and Cloud Run, is a strong advantage.
• Strong opinions about software design principles and technology choices, balanced with pragmatism in implementation.
• Understanding of insurance products and processes, or enthusiasm for learning them. P&C, underwriting, or pricing knowledge is a real advantage because strong integrations combine domain knowledge and engineering.
• Fluent German and English.

What we offer

We believe satisfied employees deliver their best work, so we invest in benefits beyond the usual.

• Flexibility and autonomy: Smart Working, annualized working hours, five weeks of vacation (six from age 50), a two-week vacation gift every five years, and the option to purchase up to ten additional days per year.
• Work and family: family-friendly meeting times, 22 weeks of maternity leave, eight weeks for the other parent, childcare subsidies, family allowances, and leave to care for relatives or during difficult personal situations.
• Retirement and insurance: attractive pension plan with extensive benefits above the mandatory level, including flexible savings options, and up to 30% discounts on insurance products.
• Flexible benefits: AXA Shareplan employee participation, CHF 500 annually on the Swibeco benefits platform, discounted meals or a lunch card, and a CHF 200 annual Smart Working allowance.
• Mobility: reimbursement for a Half-Fare travel card, Reka-Pay up to CHF 1,000 per year (20% discount), fleet discounts, free EV charging, and AXA loaner bicycles.
• Wellbeing: free checkups, annual health weeks, varied online and in-person exercise, massage services, quiet rooms, Employee Care, an online health portal, and seminars and events on prevention and mental health.
• Development: three days of individual learning time, free coaching, extensive learning opportunities, financial support for continuing education, internal mobility and talent-development programs, seminars for employees aged 55+ (AXA Horizon), communities, innovation projects (Innoday, AXA Hackathon, UnConference), and two days for environmental or social volunteering.

Your future workplace

Pionierstrasse 3 – Google Maps

Apply now. For questions, Ute Schläfli is happy to help by email at [email protected]. More information about the application process is available here.

Diversity and inclusion matter to us at AXA. Openness, respect, and appreciation of differences and commonalities are essential to collaboration at AXA Switzerland. We promote equal opportunity and work to remove barriers in recruitment. If you need support or adjustments due to disability, neurodivergence, and/or a health condition, contact the Recruiting team at [email protected].

About AXA

At AXA, we believe everyone has the potential to shape the future. We aim to create a dynamic, supportive, progressive workplace that inspires and encourages you, with a culture of collaboration among equals, trust, and diversity. Our modern working conditions take employees’ needs into account and give you room to develop your strengths, take responsibility, and contribute ideas. Develop personally and help shape tomorrow’s world with us by protecting what truly matters. Learn more about AXA as an employer on our careers site.

We look forward to your application. For administrative and data-protection reasons, only complete application files (CV, references, certificates, etc.) submitted through the online application link will be considered. Applications through recruitment agencies cannot be considered.