Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer

Were looking for a talented and results-oriented software engineer to work as a key Sureify’s expanding engineering team member. You’ll help build and evolve our next-generation cloud-based compute platform for digitally delivered life insurance. This is your opportunity to make a large impact at a high-growth enterprise software company in the life insurance space. You’ll collaborate with other developers and a product manager to build software in support of a suite of business applications and their worldwide delivery teams, all of whom count on a high-performance, reliable, extensible backend.
Sureify and its missionSureify (https://www.sureify.com/) is on a mission to modernize the life and annuity insurance industry. Composed of 150+ insurance veterans, technology experts, and creatives, Sureify offers its employees a unique opportunity to advance a powerful industry that has fallen behind digitally.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience developing production-quality code
• Ability to provide technical leadership and mentorship to less experienced engineers
• Experience designing relational database schemas
• A firm understanding of object-oriented design or functional programming as well as common data structures and algorithms
• Strong communication skills, and the ability to work collaboratively in a close-knit team
• Experience working with 3rd party software integrations (REST APIs, SOAP APIs, XML, JSon, etc.)
• A solid understanding of the challenges of distributed systems
• Experience building secure applications and methodically improving application performance (Profilers, APM tools, Security scanning tools)
• Experience with CI/CD tooling
• Bachelor’s or Masters degree in Computer Science or related field
• Competency with either a frontend framework/library (such as React, Angular) or NodeJS.

The Ideal Candidate Also Has

• An appreciation for the value strong typing provides to a development team
• Experience developing production code using TypeScript
• Experience developing production code using React
• Experience developing SaaS applications that run on top of AWS (and familiarity with S3, EKS, RDS, EC2)
• Familiarity with Docker
• A desire to work with engineers to develop their test-driven development practice
• Developed and supported an abstraction layer that allows less experienced engineers to be productive

Our cultureWe are a close group at Sureify, bound together by strong working relationships and a common mission in the industry. The success of our customers is very important to us, and we value merit in the workplace, long-term thinking, and the flourishing of all our employees.
Experience working in a startup or an ability to adapt to a small, rapidly growing company mindset is required. There is an expectation that you can be agile amidst the fluctuations inherent to a young company establishing itself in the marketplace. Frequently we have to come together as a team and go beyond the responsibility of our roles to ensure success.