Software Engineer I

Agents, brokers and direct customers all buy through our platforms, with policy administration on Guidewire. Founded in 1972, we now have 6,600 employees.

About the role

This is a new position created as the team has grown over the last year. Merrick Assurance is hiring for the Software Engineer I role on our Identity team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. This is an in-person role at our Zürich location.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed

Skills and experience

• 0-2 years of professional software development experience
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI

Bonus points

• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain

What you get

Rate: CHF 96,000 - CHF 125,000 a year

• Company pension scheme
• Holiday pay
• Christmas bonus

Start: Immediately.

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