Principal Software Engineer

We employ 4,200 people across underwriting, claims, actuarial, IT and customer service. Licensing (property and casualty, life and health) is paid for, with study time during work hours.

Overview

We need another Principal Software Engineer who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. We are headquartered in Arvada and have been hiring remotely since 2020. We hire in Ghana through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. Please make sure you have dependable internet and backup power.

Duties

• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners

Required qualifications

• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred

• Contributions to open source projects
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Prior work at an early-stage startup

Benefits

• Annual team retreat
• Annual learning budget
• Company laptop
• Flexible hours
• Two weeks of paid leave at year end

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at DR Mutual Corp..