Lead Data Engineer @Panora (backed by Hexa)
About Panora
Panora is building a suite of AI-powered agents for insurance brokers - a highly regulated and operationally complex industry.
Our ambition is to become the AI Operating System for brokers in Europe: automating high-friction workflows while improving compliance, advisory quality, and client relationships.
The product is already live with brokerage firms across France and Belgium, with AI assistants in production (quotation automation, contract comparison, coverage analysis, compliance checks, document generation…).
Panora enables brokers to save hours every week, reduce analysis time by up to 70%, and focus on what truly matters: advising clients .
Founded by Diane du Paty (ex-VC, operator) and Fabian Langlet (repeat founder, AI product engineer), Panora is backed by Hexa (Aircall, Spendesk, Front).
We are entering a key phase of scaling and industrializing our AI platform.
At Panora, AI is not a feature - it is the core product layer, deployed in real-world conditions with strong constraints on reliability, traceability, and compliance.
Role
We’re looking for a Founding Data Engineer to help build and scale the systems powering Panora’s AI products.
Your work will sit at the intersection of:
AI systems: LLMs, agentic workflows, evaluation pipelines, tracing and observability
Data engineering: ingestion, normalization, enrichment, extraction and document-processing pipelines
Internal datasets: building high-quality, structured insurance datasets from policies, quotes, underwriting questionnaires and business rules
Product & backend engineering: designing robust APIs, data models and scalable services used directly in production
Insurance expertise: translating real-world insurance workflows, contract language and decision rules into usable data systems
As the third engineering hire, you'll work directly with Fabian (CTO & Co-founder) and Jeremy (Founding Software Engineer), with strong ownership and direct impact on both product and technical direction.
What to Expect
Join an existing, large-scale codebase and quickly develop a deep understanding of the systems powering Panora.
Improve, refactor and scale critical parts of the platform while contributing new capabilities where they create the most impact.
You'll work with complex workflows, unstructured data and real production constraints.
You'll own problems end-to-end, from AI systems and data pipelines to customer impact.
Success is measured by product impact, reliability and customer outcomes.
Responsibilities:
Build & Improve AI Products
Design, ship and improve AI-powered workflows used daily by insurance brokers
Build evaluation, feedback and monitoring systems to continuously improve performance
Turn complex insurance workflows into reliable AI-powered products
Build the Data Foundations
Build and maintain data pipelines powering our products
Process and structure unstructured data (contracts, emails, insurer documents)
Improve the quality, reliability and observability of our systems
Own & Scale Systems
Own systems end-to-end: from design and implementation to deployment and monitoring
Contribute to architecture and key technical decisions
Help define how AI, data and engineering scale at Panora
Our Technology Stack
Built for an AI-first, production-grade product:
Languages: Python for AI, data and automation; TypeScript for backend services and product integrations
AI systems: LLM-powered agents, structured extraction, evaluation frameworks, tracing, observability and feedback loops
Infrastructure: AWS, with a serverless and managed-services approach designed for reliability and scale
Data: MongoDB, document-processing pipelines, structured extraction workflows, internal datasets and evaluation datasets
Integrations: Microsoft 365, CRM and ERP tools, insurer extranets and other systems used daily by insurance brokers
Engineering environment: a large, evolving production codebase: where improving, refactoring and scaling existing systems is as important as building new ones
What matters most is your ability to design robust systems, work with real-world constraints, and learn fast.
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for a builder who ships, enjoys solving difficult problems, and thrives in a small, highly collaborative team.
Experience building, operating and improving production systems in a startup or product-driven environment
Experience working closely within an engineering team and contributing to a shared codebase
Strong Python and backend engineering skills
Experience with data-intensive products, AI systems, LLM applications or applied machine learning
Comfortable working with messy, incomplete and unstructured real-world data
Able to quickly understand, improve and scale existing systems-not just build greenfield projects
High standards for reliability, data quality, maintainability and customer impact in production
Comfortable taking ownership, moving quickly and making progress in ambiguous environments
Strong product mindset: you care about solving meaningful customer problems, not just shipping technical features
Bonus:
Experience with evaluation systems, feedback loops or AI observability
Experience in fintech, insurance or other regulated environments
Recruitment process
30min phone screen with Presci (Talent team)
30min interview with Fabian (Hiring Manager)
1h30 technical interview with Fabian through a peer-programming session
30-min interview with Diane (Co-founder & CEO)
Onsite meeting with a member of the Product / Design team and Mat (Partner at Hexa)
Reference checks & offer
Hexa is committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment irrespective of gender, origin, identity, background and sexual orientation.
We know there’s a long way to go regarding diversity in our industry, which is why we encourage all applicants- especially those listed above- to apply to our open positions.