Senior Software Engineer

About Insera Insera is a leading Italian insurance distribution group specialised in aggregating and digitising insurance intermediaries. Its mission is to build a modern distribution platform that gives insurance intermediaries the scale, technology and continuity to serve their clients for the next generation. Insera is backed by Strada Partners, a pan-European private equity firm focused on buy-and-build platforms. Insera partners with intermediary owners to accelerate growth while preserving the identity and legacy of their businesses: entrepreneurs stay on to run their business, while Insera brings capital, a shared tech and data platform and central finance, HR, marketing and M&A. The role The Senior Software Engineer will be Insera's first technology hire and the person who turns "a shared tech and data platform" from a promise into something agencies use every day. You own the group's technology end-to-end: data, integrations, automation and the tools our intermediaries work with. You report directly to Insera's CEO. There is no existing tech team or legacy codebase at holding level: you decide what to build, what to buy and what to leave alone, and you write and review the code yourself, working with AI coding tools rather than a large team. Every acquisition adds new data, new systems and new processes to integrate. Your work directly drives the value we create from each deal: cleaner data, less manual work in agencies and a more efficient operating model.

Key responsibilities
Group data layer
• Extract portfolio, policy, premium and commission data from each agency's management systems, including legacy tools with limited APIs
• Clean, reconcile and consolidate it into a single group data model: customers, policies, carriers, lines of business, renewals and claims
• Resolve the same customer or policy across different agencies and systems
• Deliver the reporting the CEO, CFO and board rely on, including carrier production and incentive tracking across the group
• Make each new acquisition plug into the data layer faster than the last one Automation and integrations
• Map core agency processes (renewals, quotes, claims, collections, document handling) with the people who run them, and find where time is lost
• Build automations, integrations and scripts that remove manual and repetitive work, measured in hours freed up
• Deploy AI where it is reliable today: document extraction, back-office agents, internal assistants
• Review all code, including AI-generated code, with the rigour that customer and policy data requires Tools for our intermediaries
• Build or select the internal tools agencies use, from dashboards to workflow apps
• Run rollouts on site with agency staff, collect feedback and iterate until the tool is actually used Systems, vendors and security
• Evaluate agency management systems, CRMs and other vendors; make clear build vs buy recommendations
• Own access management, data protection (GDPR) and the security basics expected from a regulated intermediary
• Contribute to IT due diligence on acquisition targets and to post-closing integration plans Platform building
• Set up Insera's tech foundations: architecture, environments, documentation and engineering standards
• Help define and hire the next technical profiles as the group scales What we are looking for Must-haves
• 5+ years of experience as a software, data or ML engineer, ideally in a scale-up or a small team with high ownership
• Strong Python and SQL; hands-on experience building data pipelines and integrating systems via APIs, files or scraping
• Solid understanding of data modelling and data quality: you know that most of the work is getting messy data right
• Practical experience shipping LLM or AI-based features to production, beyond prototypes
• Daily user of AI coding tools, with the judgement to review, test and take responsibility for what they produce
• Pragmatism: you pick the simplest solution that works and you are comfortable buying instead of building
• Ability to work with non-technical users: you can sit with an agency employee, understand their day and explain your solution in plain words
• Native Italian and fluent English
• Based in Milan, with some travel to our agencies in Northern Italy Nice-to-haves
• Experience in insurance, insurtech or financial services, especially distribution, intermediaries or claims
• Experience with data warehouses, modern data tooling and major cloud providers
• Experience as an early engineer or founder, building from zero
• Exposure to post-acquisition integration or multi-entity data consolidation How you operate
• You care about outcomes in the business, not just elegant code
• You figure things out: no documentation or API is a reason to wait
• You calibrate effort to what is at stake and apply an 80/20 approach
• You enjoy building something new in an environment that is not yet tidy What's in it for you
• Ownership. Full responsibility for the group's technology from day one, with no legacy to inherit and no layers between you and decisions
• Impact you can measure. Your work shows up directly in agency productivity and in the value created from every acquisition
• A sector to transform. Insurance distribution in Italy is still largely manual: plenty of real, unsolved problems
• Proximity to decision-makers. Daily work with the founder and regular exposure to Insera's board
• Tools. Budget for the best AI and development tools available
• Rewards. Competitive fixed salary plus performance bonus
• Growth path. A clear route towards Head of Engineering or CTO as the group and the team scale Practicalities
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Location:
Milan (hybrid), with some travel to group companies' locations
• Contract: full-time, permanent
• Start: as soon as possible
• Process: screening call, technical interview, a short case study on real (anonymised) agency data, meeting with Strada Partners, references
• Apply: send your CV and a few lines (or a link) on something you built and shipped to federico@insera.co