Senior Software Engineer, Java

Founded as a farmers' mutual in 1975, the company is now one of the larger mutual insurers in the US. Founded in 1975, we now have 6,800 employees.

Job summary:

We are adding headcount to this team, so this is a new seat. Our Payments team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. The company is based in Wichita, the US. We are a distributed team spread across a few time zones. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Australia, with a local contract and salary paid in local currency. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

Main duties:

• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review

What you need:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design

Preferred qualifications:

• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain
• Prior work at an early-stage startup
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ

Salary range: $197,000 - $255,000 per annum

Compensation and benefits:

• Annual team retreat
• Annual salary review
• Monthly internet allowance
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner
• Paid parental leave
• Co-working space stipend
• Performance bonus

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.

Start: Immediately.

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