Associate Software Engineer

Our claims organisation handles more than 400,000 claims a year, including catastrophe response after hurricanes and hail. Agents, brokers and direct customers all buy through our platforms, with policy administration on Guidewire. Most of the office has been here more than ten years.

Overview

We are adding an Associate Software Engineer to our Platform team. This is a hands-on coding role on software used by a few hundred thousand people. Expect code review, design discussions and a fair amount of debugging. Remote, open to candidates across the UAE. Standard office hours, Monday to Friday, with flexibility around them. You will need a reliable internet connection and a quiet place to work.

Responsibilities

• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates

Required qualifications

• 0-2 years of professional software development experience
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL

Preferred qualifications

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Contributions to open source projects

AED 21,500 - AED 25,000 per month

Pay and benefits

• Medical insurance
• 30 days annual leave
• Education allowance for children
• Tax-free salary
• Visa provided

We look at every application, usually within a week.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Dune Consultants LLC.