Software Engineer II (Java)

About the company

Our claims organization handles more than 400,000 claims a year, including catastrophe response after hurricanes and hail. Willow Creek Insurance is a property and casualty insurer writing policies in 30 states through independent agents. January renewals keep everyone busy for a few weeks.

We are backfilling a position after an internal move. Willow Creek Insurance is hiring for the Software Engineer II (Java) role on our Developer Experience team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. Remote, open to candidates across the US. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic

About you

• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL

What you get

Compensation: $145,000 - $184,000 per year DOE.

• Health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off

Willow Creek Insurance is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Start: Flexible.

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