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Flood Risk • Drought Risk • Catastrophe Modeling • Wild Fire • Hurricane

KatRisk LLC is a leading provider of advanced catastrophe risk modeling solutions, specializing in flood, wind, seismic, and other weather-related risks. They empower insurers, governments, and financial institutions with high-resolution, peril-specific models that inform risk management strategies globally. 

Their suite of proprietary products, such as SpatialKat and SoloKat, integrates cutting-edge data analytics and API technology to support real-time data integration and enhance analytic capabilities. KatRisk's models offer unparalleled precision, enabling clients to make informed, data-driven decisions to better manage disaster-related risks. 


11 - 50 employees


Founded 2012

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💸 Finance

💰 Private Equity Round on 2023-11

Engineering Lead – Catastrophe Risk Modelling Platform, C++
35 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor

Linux

SQL

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📋 Description
• Own & evolve the core C++ modeling system: Maintain, refactor, and enhance an established codebase that drives large-scale peril specific loss simulations with complex financial modelling.
• Implement new catastrophe risk and financial models as they are designed.
• Modernize the stack: Refactor legacy components toward a modular, containerized architecture with improved deployment automation.
• Data-driven simulation accuracy: Work with historical and meteorological datasets to ensure scientifically sound, reproducible results in partnership with our Science team.
• Performance & reliability at scale: Profile and optimize an I/O-intensive architecture to meet strict enterprise SLAs.
• Guide integration: With APIs and visualization components to support new user experiences.
• Distributed compute orchestration: Enhance the server-side job scheduler, proxies, and API daemon.
• Modernize the web layer: Lead the transition from R Shiny components to a more traditional web stack.
• Database stewardship: Guide data modeling and performance tuning on our SQL Server backend.
• Engineering leadership: Set technical direction, establish coding standards, mentor engineers, and drive pragmatic execution.
• Security & reliability: Strengthen authentication, observability, and incident response.

🎯 Requirements
• Strong proficiency in C++ for scientific/engineering or high-performance systems.
• Experience working with large datasets and performance-sensitive pipelines (I/O intensive workflows, compression, concurrency).
• Solid debugging, profiling, and optimization skills across Linux/Windows environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead or mentor a small engineering team.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with Data Engineering, Science, and Product teams; clear written and verbal communication.

🏖️ Benefits
• Health insurance
• Professional development opportunities