Reporting to the SVP of Engineering, the Lead Backend Software Engineer will lead the design, development, and maintenance of our innovative direct to consumer insurance product. You will have responsibility for both learning the current code base and architecture as well as continuing to innovate by building out additional new products. Besides our consumer product, you will also own our Broker Portal, Compliance Platform, and our Open API, as well as supporting both Android and iOS Apps.
This is role where you should be comfortable making engineering and architectural decisions, helping to build out a team of backend developers, being both a mentor to junior programmers as well as a hands-on producer, and working closely with both Product and Front-end engineers.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead high-level decision making for software development; oversee the “big picture” software architecture
- Create architectural approaches for software design/implementation to guide development team
- Determine design choices based on technical standards (platforms, coding standards) by considering insurance business requirements/compliance regulations by state and carriers
- Use scalable computing systems/frameworks (Hadoop, elastic search)
- Perform software development/coding in multiple programming languages (node.js,
- Use cloud services (AWS, GCP, RDS, Athena, S3, kinesis, SQS, SNS)
- Use Docker containers and Kubernetes (automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications)
- Coordinate with software architects and engineers to ensure all solutions/implementations follow correct standards
- Work with business representatives to discuss their custom software requirements; use tools and methodologies to create representations for functions and user interface of desired products
- Develop high-level product specifications with attention to system integration and feasibility
- Define all aspects of development from appropriate technology choices and workflow to coding standards
- Oversee progress of development team to ensure consistency with initial design
- Provide technical guidance and coaching to developers and engineers
- Ensure software meets all requirements (quality, security, modifiability, extensibility, etc.) and supervise others in performing their duties
