Senior Software Engineer

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year.

Job summary

This role opened up after a team member moved internally. 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 US. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in. Day-to-day communication is in Slack and Google Meet.

Day to day

• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.

Minimum qualifications

• 5-7 years of professional software development experience.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.

Preferred qualifications

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

Rate: $176,000 - $210,000 a year

Compensation and benefits

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with 4% match.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Professional development budget.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Paid parental leave.

We review applications on a rolling basis.

Start: Immediately.

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