Software Developer

We employ 290 people across underwriting, claims, actuarial, IT and customer service. Regional offices in Ahmedabad and five other cities support agents and policyholders.

Position summary:

We are creating this position because the workload has grown. We need another Software Developer who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. Remote, open to candidates across India. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in. Please make sure you have dependable internet and backup power.

Main duties:

• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.

What you need:

• 3-5 years of professional software development experience.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.

Preferred:

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

Perks and benefits:

• Health insurance for you and your family.
• Provident fund.
• Paid leave.
• Learning budget.
• Internet reimbursement.
• Group term life insurance.
• Meal coupons.

Due to the number of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

We may close the role early, so do not wait too long to apply.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Gill Insurance Group Pvt Ltd.