# Developer (Junior)

Discovery Health Junior Developer – AI/ML Engineering About Discovery Discovery's core purpose is to enhance and protect people's lives through products and services that use incentives, behavioural science, and data to encourage healthier choices. This creates better outcomes for members, lower claims, and shared value for clients and society. Discovery has one of the most diverse data assets in financial services and healthcare in the world, spanning health, wellness, lifestyle, driving, investments, and life insurance. This creates a unique opportunity to use advanced analytics, causal inference, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to improve member outcomes, strengthen operational performance, and support more personalised products and services. About the Data Science Lab The Data Science Lab (DS Lab) is a specialist team that solves high-impact problems across Discovery Health and the broader Discovery Group. Using large-scale structured and unstructured data, the team develops models, experiments, decision systems, and AI-enabled solutions that create measurable business and member value, like the Personal Health Pathways (PHP) programme. The DS Lab partners

- **Id**: 4011643
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/discovery-developer-junior>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sandton, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T00:00:00Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T00:00:00Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9023
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning, Equity, Life insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Property & Casualty Insurance, Health Insurance & Benefits, Digital Banks & Neobanks, Life Insurance & Annuities

## Company

- **Id**: 1811548
- **Name**: Discovery
- **Domain**: discovery.co.za
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/discovery-co-za>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SuccessFactors

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
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- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **PHP** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T10:29:15Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 10
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T12:38:04Z

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