Senior Software Engineer
New York City, NY

Job Description

Before the dawn of everything internet, insurance was intimate and personal. You walked down the street to chat with your broker, and the risk to your business, your livelihood, was covered with a handshake. Today things are different. The average

insurance policy for a mom-and-pop store trades through a dozen different hands and traverses a maze of systems and processes. Few are accountable and fewer know the whole story.

This is just a taste of the type of big problem we want you to solve. We seek a full stack developer to help drive a new digital product team on a mission to bring a new type of interaction to a market once exclusively driven by in-person relationships.

As one of the founding members of a small, multi-disciplinary team of technologists, designers, and product managers, you'll have the freedom to make key product decisions without much oversight, and the tools and resources to build and ship

ideas quickly. You'll be a part of a startup-like environment in a company with thousands of existing customers.

Who you are

Like Git? Great. Have a favorite data store? Front-end framework? Way of working? Propose it! This map has no lines. You're bringing the pencil. Rather than setting rigid requirements about which technologies are "corporate approved" and safe to use,

our team has the ability to select and change the stack. We believe that an all-star technology team is capable of making rational decisions based on system-risk, ramp-up time and ease-of-use, and that novelty will never trump utility.

Some signs you might be ready:

* You're a team player. You can talk with designers, product owners and senior stakeholders. You're not just a coder; you're someone who knows how to get things made. You start imagining how to turn experiences into products as soon as you

hear the concept, and you know how to prod for the right direction before you start hacking away. You might have led others and shipped an experience well-received by users, one that wasn't just incremental change but an entirely new product.

In your spare time, you've collaborated with friends to conduct experiments outside of work.
* You've got technical expertise. You can build mobile and web apps (and you've done it before). We're flexible about language and approach as long as you're working in a codebase you're confident writing for and which you know will deliver

the right results. You can decipher the code of others, and you understand your way around legacy infrastructure and architecture.
* You've been exposed to the architecture for a large, high-scale application that integrates into multiple systems.
* You put users first. You believe that users should have the loudest voice in the room. You make to learn. You understand the role of validation and its place in the product development process.
* You're so RESTful, even your toaster has a URL. You're the mullet of developers: party in the frontend, business in the back. You know when to go SQL, NoSQL and graph. You've got a point of view on AngularJS vs. React vs. Backbone.
* Your code is so clean, it's nearly self-documenting.
* You've worked on an agile team and can sprint like Usain Bolt.
* Your experience is quality over quantity. Years of professional experience isn't important, but an understanding of what it takes to build a product from scratch is. You've been responsible for developing products that have successfully gone

to market. Your portfolio ranges across mobile/desktop and technology platforms (e.g., iOS, Android).

What you'll own

* Proposing tool chain standards and practices.
* Deploying code and creating hooks to keep things operational.
* Write snappy code, from flexible JavaScript libraries to concise, reusable models.
* Work with the latest open-source projects designed to scale.
* Build system architectural components for products that create market-defining experiences.
* Creatively figure out how to use customer data to inform decision-making.
* Participate in usability testing, translating findings back into code.

Skill set

* RESTful API integration
* Data architecture and management (SQL, Hadoop, Mongo, Cassandra, Spark)
* Cloud and rack-based server cluster management
* Scripting (Python, Javascript)
* Frontend frameworks (AngularJS, React, Backbone, Sails, Node)
* Rapid development and deployment (Docker, Django, Bootstrap, Heroku, New Relic)
* Light server admin and maintenance (UNIX, AWS, Apache, Security, Report, etc.)

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, color, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, national origin or citizenship (including language use restrictions), denial of family and medical care leave, disability (mental and physical) , including HIV and AIDS, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), race, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, child birth, breastfeeding, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, child birth or breastfeeding), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or other status protected by federal, state and/or local laws.

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