Lead Software Engineer

Summary

Join our software engineering organization as a Staff-level Backend Engineer with strong Python coding expertise and contribute to evolving our instant-quote product and technology platform.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in a fast-paced technical, problem-solving environment as a software developer
• Strong English speaking and writing skills, including the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with diverse audiences
• Demonstrable understanding of software engineering fundamentals
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, DOM web programming
• Knowledge and demonstrated experience in at least two of Python, Rust and React
• Experience with software engineering principles related to security, scalability, asynchronous programming and transactions
• Attention to detail, good work ethic, ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, and good communication skills

Responsibilities

• Designing, coding, testing, and releasing software
• Reading, writing, and reviewing code written in HTML, Typescript/Javascript/React, Python, and Rust
• Close collaboration with other engineers and product managers to become a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional team
• Operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, including deploying services into an AWS and kubernetes environment and taking part in an on-call rotation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with build and testing technologies using one or more of the following Git/Github actions, GitLab
• Demonstrated knowledge of principles of service-oriented architectures and ability to lead efforts in defining and implementing a service strategy
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases with understanding of Normalization/Denormalization, Constraints, Transactions, Replication, and Sharding