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Verisk

Builds data and risk software for insurers

Principal Software Engineer

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/15/2026
PLN240k - PLN300k
Expert
Kraków, Poland
Hybrid
Software EngineeringBackend Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • Extensive software engineering experience, with a proven track record of building and operating production systems and data pipelines at scale.
  • Strong software architecture and system design expertise, including experience making and documenting complex technical trade-offs.
  • Advanced experience with .NET and C#, including production services and APIs using REST and GraphQL.
  • Deep hands-on experience with AWS, including S3, Batch, Lambda, SNS, RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, EKS, and CloudWatch.
  • Strong SQL and PostgreSQL expertise, including schema design, query optimization, and graph-based data modelling.
  • Experience designing distributed, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems, with robust observability, recovery, and rollback strategies.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed services, using logs, metrics, and traces with tools such as Splunk and CloudWatch.
  • Experience with CI/CD and Agile delivery, using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership, including mentoring engineers, leading design reviews and RFCs, and coordinating across teams.
  • Written and verbal communication skills to explain complex technical decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Responsibilities
  • Shape platform architecture across ingestion, transformation, storage, APIs, and AI-powered services, ensuring scalability, resilience, and maintainability.
  • Own end-to-end technical delivery of AWS Batch content pipelines, Lambda-based workflows, and .NET 8 REST/GraphQL APIs.
  • Drive architecture decisions around Aurora PostgreSQL, graph-based data models, and OpenSearch to support GenAI retrieval and high-volume workloads.
  • Define and champion engineering, data quality, testing, and observability standards across platforms including Pentaho, ThoughtSpot, CloudWatch, and Splunk.
  • Partner with ML and Product Engineering teams to ensure LangGraph-based RAG pipelines have reliable, current, and well-structured data and service layers.
  • Shape LLM evaluation and prompt data pipelines, including ground-truth and synthetic datasets for testing and model quality.
  • Review and validate AI-assisted engineering output before production deployment.
  • Lead architecture discussions through technical briefs, RFCs, design reviews, and documented trade-offs.
  • Define testing, rollout, monitoring, and rollback strategies for critical platform changes.
  • Lead production incident reviews and postmortems, driving actions that improve reliability and operational resilience.
  • Establish and evolve engineering standards and best practices, reinforcing them through code reviews and practical examples.
  • Mentor engineers on software architecture, data engineering, design patterns, and responsible AI-assisted development.
  • Coordinate technical dependencies across product squads, ensuring clear interfaces, effective collaboration, and smooth delivery.
  • Communicate technical decisions, risks, dependencies, and delivery impacts clearly to engineering and business stakeholders.
Desired Qualifications
  • Python 3.10+ experience, including Pandas, BeautifulSoup, and XML/HTML processing.
  • Hands-on experience with LangGraph, LangChain, or other LLM/agentic frameworks.
  • Experience with OpenSearch or vector search technologies for RAG applications.

About the company

Verisk sells data, analytics, and software to insurers, reinsurers, and insurance intermediaries that assess risk and settle claims. Its tools support insurance pricing and policy development, catastrophe modeling, and claims investigation, combining industry records with scientific models and specialized applications. Xactimate calculates property repair estimates, while other platforms compare claims to identify suspected fraud and model losses from natural disasters. Customers pay through hosted subscriptions, transaction fees, and advisory services, with software and data integrated into their underwriting and claims workflows. Verisk traces its operating roots to 1971 and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Company Size

5,001-10,000

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Jersey City, New Jersey

Founded

1971

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What believers are saying

  • Core demand is expanding: July 2026 results showed Verisk's subscriptions growing 8% excluding currency and portfolio changes.
  • Recurring contracts support stability: subscriptions generated 84% of Verisk's insurance revenue in the first half of 2026.
  • Career progression has a map: Verisk's Career Framework links employee skills to job functions and grades.

What critics are saying

  • Data suppliers hold leverage: Verisk's contracts are short term, and some suppliers also compete with it.
  • Technology teams face a handoff: Verisk's CIO role moved to interim leadership in August 2026.
  • Merger execution faced court intervention: August 2026 ruling ordered Verisk to pursue AccuLynx approval and pay direct costs.

What makes Verisk unique

  • Insurance rulebooks are a product: Verisk's ISO library contains more than 30,000 standardized policy forms and resources.
  • Repair pricing is local: Verisk's estimating data covers more than 460 markets using completed jobs and cost research.
  • Its data has a field operation: Verisk deploys about 500 US representatives to inspect properties and community protections.

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Benefits

  • Hybrid Work Options

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Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

17%

2 year growth

17%
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Oct 13th, 2026
Form 8-K

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (201) 469-2000

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