Software Engineer

Agents, brokers and direct customers all buy through our platforms, with policy administration on Guidewire. Canyon Mutual Insurance is a property and casualty insurer writing policies in 30 states through independent agents.

Canyon Mutual Insurance is hiring for the Software Engineer role on our Developer Experience team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. Remote within the US. The team meets in Columbus once a quarter, travel covered. We do not have many meetings. Most updates happen in writing.

Duties:

• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• 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.
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.

What you'll need:

• 3-5 years of professional software development experience.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.

Desirable:

• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.

Pay and benefits:

The salary range for this role is $149,000 - $181,000 per year. This range reflects base salary only.

• Health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Vision insurance.

EOE. We participate in E-Verify.

New hires usually start two to three weeks after accepting an offer.

If this sounds like a fit, apply with a resume. A cover letter is optional.

Start: Flexible.

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