Senior Engineer, Sure
Payments
Offers equity
Digital insurance sales and services platform
Open for applications
Digital insurance sales and services platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
Offers equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide a simplistic approach to the complex problems associated with digital insurance.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- 2+ years experience with Python and Django
- 2+ years experience on payment platforms and optimization
- 2+ years of working and integrating with payment processors or building gateways for payment processors to interface with card networks, banks, etc
- Great experience building apps in a secure and PCI-compliant environment
- Solid understanding of building streaming systems that produce large quantities of immutable, auditable data at scale that have complex aggregation
- Great experience participating in the design and architecture of a project
- Self-directed and self-motivated individuals comfortable working with diverse teams
- Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
- Experience with AWS or other cloud services
Desirable
- Familiarity with payment fraud prevention and risk management
- Experience with large data tools such as Databricks and PySpark
- Experience with payment forms beyond Credit Cards i.e. ACH, Check, and other payment forms
- Familiarity of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in software development including concepts like Journal Entries, Corrections, etc
What the job involves
- We are looking for a strong Senior Engineer who has a strong understanding of payment platforms and the ability to optimize them for efficiency, security, and performance
- You’ll work closely with other engineers and our product team, with a direct impact in the products you’ll be building
- As a small distributed team, we rely heavily on effective communication and autonomy in order to build, iterate, and ship rapidly
- You'll contribute to all aspects of the software process: including architecture, specification reviews, implementation, automated testing, code reviews, debugging, and documentation
- Yeah Provide technical input and knowledge to the planning, design, and requirements process for new products and features
- Implement elegant, scalable web-facing solutions to solve complex business problems in the payments space
- You'll design, build, test, and maintain scalable APIs with the applications that rely on them
- Collaborate across different teams within the company to design solutions that fit multiple stakeholders needs
- Resolve bug fixes and troubleshoot incidents from our partners and customers including identification, resolution, and remediation
- Help build automation tools, define processes, and add documentation to improve our developer experience and enable the business capabilities for Payments and Billing
Our take
Sure is a software-as-a-service provider that powers API-based digital insurance programs for enterprises and brands. Rather than underwriting the insurance themselves, Sure acts as a platform that enables brands to sell their own insurance packages which are actually underwritten by legacy insurers like Nationwide, Chubb and MetLife.
Not long ago, the company partnered with Zibo to streamline the renters' insurance process for tenants, a smart move in a world that used to be exclusively in person and is transitioning to digital. There are great benefits to having insurance and rent management under one online roof, for landlords and tenants alike. It has since teamed up with PorchPals for embedded package insurance and was recognised as one of the fastest-growing tech companies in North America.
The recent arrival of competitor Boost - founded by Sure's Series A venture capital backer - hasn’t deterred the company at all. In fact, Sure claims to be profitable, and boasts an impressive range of clients – like Tesla, Intuit, Mastercard.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
27% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2021
$100m
SERIES C
Jun 2019
$23.1m
SERIES B
Total funding: $141.7m
Company benefits
- Equity - Take pride in what you’re building as an owner of the company. Equity is available for all Sure employees
- Comprehensive Health Coverage - Select medical, dental, and vision for you and your family. Elect from multiple plan options to meet your needs
- Unlimited PTO - Time off that’s meant to be taken. We understand the importance of recharging so that you can live your best life
- Extra Cash - 401k retirement savings, flexible spending account, referral bonuses, and more
- Parental leave - Welcome the newest member of your family with fully paid time off and a gradual return to work program following leave
- Mental health breaks - Take a moment for yourself with company-provided meditation apps or build relationships with team members via virtual gatherings and celebrations
Company values
- Passion: We believe in our mission
- Innovation: We think novel thoughts
- Collaboration: We elevate output through teamwork and leave our egos at the door
- Action: We get the job done
- Authenticity: We embrace what makes you, you
Company HQ
Downtown, Santa Monica, CA
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Leadership
Wayne Slavin
(CEO & Co-founder)After working as Senior Sales Engineer for Linspire, Wayne co-founded NetStumbler.com, a tool to detect wireless LANs, BackupRight, online data backup services and Language Fish translation services. Before co-founding Sure, they were the VP of Product Management for Tapingo, letting individuals buy things instantly.
Jarod Kolman
(Co-founder)After Founding and working as Managing Director of Limestone Properties, Jarod co-founded Jarod continues to be Chairman for Limestone Properties, a leading estate agent for residential investment properties in Sandton.
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