Remote Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join our software engineering organization as a Staff-level Backend Engineer and contribute to evolving our instant-quote product and technology platform. You'll be part of a small, intensely skilled team that feels total ownership of their work and can't imagine a day without learning & coding.

Requirements

• Required: 10+ years of experience in a fast-paced technical, problem-solving environment as a software developer
• Required: Strong English speaking and writing skills, including the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with diverse audiences
• Required: Demonstrable understanding of software engineering fundamentals
• Required: Knowledge of HTML, CSS, DOM web programming
• Required: Knowledge and demonstrated experience in at least two of Python, Rust and React
• Desired: Experience with build and testing technologies using one or more of the following Git/Github actions, GitLab
• Required: Experience with software engineering principles related to security, scalability, asynchronous programming and transactions
• Desired: Demonstrated knowledge of principles of service-oriented architectures and ability to lead efforts in defining and implementing a service strategy
• Desired: Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases with understanding of Normalization/Denormalization, Constraints, Transactions, Replication, and Sharding
• Required: attention to detail, good work ethic, ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, and good communication skills

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for 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
• Work in an environment that supports your individual growth