At Kshema, we are re-imagining agricultural insurance with the power of Public Cloud, GIS, Remote sensing and cutting-edge AI-based algorithms to assess, model and price insurance risks for farmers adequately. We are taking the latest advances in Mobile, Geospatial technologies and the web to empower the next generation of agricultural insurance. Would you like to be part of a dynamic team using cutting-edge technology to unlock value for our clients Then we would love to get to know you!
Role Overview
As a Principal Member of Technical Staff (PMTS), you will be a technical authority and architect driving the design, evolution, and execution of next-generation digital insurance platforms. You will solve company-wide, ambiguous, high-impact problems, influence engineering direction across multiple teams, and ensure systems are scalable, secure, resilient, and regulation-ready while enabling rapid innovation.
You will work at the intersection of technology, product, risk, and compliance, shaping platforms that power real-time underwriting, claims automation, fraud detection, and personalized insurance experiences.
What You Will Work On
- Define and own end-to-end architecture for large-scale, cloud-native insurance platforms.
- Drive adoption of modern architectural paradigms:
- Event-driven & streaming architectures
- Microservices & service mesh
- Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
- Build new and exciting components in an ever-growing and evolving market technology to provide scale and efficiency.
- Establish engineering standards for reliability, scalability, security, and observability.
- Make long-term technology bets aligned with business strategy and regulatory needs.
- Lead exploration and production adoption of emerging technologies, including Real-time data platforms (Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming)
- Rapidly prototype, validate, and productionize high-risk, high-reward initiatives.
- Evaluate build vs buy vs partner decisions for core platforms.
- Design systems capable of:
- Handling millions of policies and claims in real time
- Supporting multi-tenant, multi-region deployments
- Meeting strict latency, uptime, and disaster recovery SLAs
- Ensure zero-trust security, data privacy, and compliance with insurance regulations (IRDAI, GDPR, SOC2, ISO).
- Partner closely with Product, Actuarial, Risk, Legal, and Compliance teams.
- Translate complex business and regulatory requirements into elegant technical solutions.
- Act as a technical advisor to senior leadership and executive teams.
- Drive alignment across teams without formal authority.
- Remain deeply technical:
- Design critical systems
- Review and author high-impact code
- Lead technical deep-dives and design reviews
- Raise the technical bar through mentorship of Lead and senior engineers.
- Champion engineering best practices: testing, CI/CD, SRE, and DevSecOps.
What We Look For
- Proven track record of building and shipping high-quality backend API components with a minimum of 12 years of experience in Application Development, with principal-level impact.
- Deep knowledge in selecting, configuring and integrating 3rd party SaaS or COTS solutions as well as coordinating the development of such solutions
- Technical skills include strong Hands-on development on Spring Boot, JPA
- Strong background in data-intensive systems and real-time processing.
- Experience with security-critical and compliance-heavy domains (fintech, insurance, banking).
- Ability to influence architecture across multiple teams and products.
- Strong SQL skills and experience and experience with relational and non-relational databases e.g. (Postgres/Oracle/Mongo).
- Broad experience in building interfaces between (cloud) solutions (Azure/AWS), API management and development.
- Detailed real-world experience with Scrum or similar agile methodologies
- Hands-on experience with AI/ML or GenAI in production is a plus.
- Experience with the Azure platform is a plus
- Outstanding communication skills and emotional intelligence
You will be a great fit in the team if:
- You've got positive energy. You're optimistic about the future and determined to get there.
- You have a can do attitude.
