Associate Software Engineer, C++

Our claims organization handles more than 400,000 claims a year, including catastrophe response after hurricanes and hail. Catastrophe teams deploy adjusters within days of a major storm.

Overview

The Associate Software Engineer, C++ will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. This is an in-person role at our Phoenix location.

Day to day

• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates

Qualifications

• 1+ years of professional software development experience
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design

Nice to have

• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Prior work at an early-stage startup

Why work with us

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%
• Paid time off
• Professional development budget
• Flexible spending account
• Paid sick leave

We read every application and reply within about a week.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Lakestack Assurance.