About the job

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Headquartered in New York City since 2001, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

The position:

Our New York City team is growing and we are hiring a Software Engineer I. 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, with occasional travel to New York City (a few times a year).

Your responsibilities:

Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.
Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
Draft short design docs for larger changes and walk the team through the tradeoffs.
Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.

Minimum qualifications:

1+ years of professional software development experience.
Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.
Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.
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.

Preferred qualifications:

Prior work at an early-stage startup.
Infrastructure as code with Terraform.
Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.
Contributions to open source projects.

Rate: $119,000-$149,000 annually

What you get:

Health insurance.
401(k) with 4% match.
11 paid holidays.
Life insurance.
Employee discount.
Paid time off.
Cell phone reimbursement.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Start: Immediately.

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