Staff Software Engineer, Newfront
Platform & Infrastructure
$165.4-258.5k
Offers Equity
Modern business insurance company
Job no longer available
Modern business insurance company
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$165.4-258.5k
Offers Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help thousands of clients mitigate risk and move the world forward.
Role
Who you are
- BS, MS or PhD in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
- 10+ years of experience in software development at scale
- Strong Experience building, leading, and architecting large systems at enterprise
- Strong programming and data engineering in one or more backend server languages (Java/Python/Ruby/Go/TypeScript/etc.)
- Experience with web development best practices such as container, docker, continuous integration and continuous deployment
- Proficiency with RDBMS such as MySQL/PostgreSQL
- Ability to effectively communicate with non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to take a thoughtful, pragmatic, and efficient approach to problem-solving
- A track record of leading engineering project teams and working with cross-functional partners to deliver technical solutions that achieve team and organizational goals
- Passion to up-level yourself and those around you through curiosity, mentorship, and fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment
- Strong background in infrastructure as code and tools like Terraform, cloud platforms, preferably AWS, cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker Awareness, CI/CD pipelines and familiarity with tools like CircleCI, or GitHub Actions
- Strong experience in communication and leadership skills to drive results with a medium to large team
Desirable
- Experience using TypeScript on the backend is preferred
- Experience with JavaScrip backend frameworks such as Express/Node.js/Nest.js is preferred
- Experience with JavaScript frontend frameworks. Experience with React.js/Next.js is preferred
- Experience with data pipeline and data driven analytics
- Experience with implementing authentication and authorization systems
- Experience with logging and monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
What the job involves
- The Platform and Infrastructure team is the core engineering organization sitting at the center of all engineering teams of Newfront
- Its mission is to build a world class platform to serve shared engineering abstractions across different teams and empower other engineers at Newfront to build better
- It is a high-impact org and owns multiple domains such as:
- Cloud Infrastructure on AWS (EKS, RDS, SNS, SQS, Lambda, S3, etc.)
- CI/CD pipelines
- Full observability stack including logging, alerting, monitoring, and on-call management tools
- Developer productivity tools
- Authentication and authorization systems
- Shared platform services such as notifications, search, user management, files storage, etc
- AI / LLM infrastructure and platform to supercharge engineers to build AI / LLM based applications
- Be a technical leader and owner of Platform and Infrastructure Team, working through ambiguity, concept validation and implementing a best-in-class solution
- Identify areas of improvement and drive foundation opportunities for the whole organization to improve Newfront’s infrastructure and overall engineering practice
- Work across the organization to influence and improve the technical excellence of the whole organization
- Maintain, optimize and scale cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters, for performance and cost-effectiveness
- Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines to ensure efficient and reliable software delivery
- Enhance monitoring and alerting practices to proactively identify and resolve infrastructure issues
- Improve developer efficiency by automating processes and tasks using scripts and infrastructure as code tools
- Lead design and implementation to improve shared services common abstractions, such as authentication, authorization, search, and notification services, to enhance security, developer productivity and user experience
- Lead AI/LLM infrastructure to drive AI/LLM applications
- Lead operations to ensure smooth running of applications and systems at Newfront
- Collaborate with cross-functional design, product, and data science teams to design and deliver high-quality products and influence outcomes
- Follow data-driven approaches to iterate product features
- Help build out the team and cultivate innovation and growth by driving cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams
- Mentor other engineers across the organization with best practices and be a player/coach of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence
- Expert on industry technology trends in the relevant domain
- Be bold on learning and adopting new technologies that benefit multiple teams
- Being the thought leader for all teams
Our take
Newfront is an insurance broker offering tech-driven risk management and insurance cover for businesses. It claims to provide fairer premiums using rich datasets to assess risk rather than the more traditional method of risk categories. The insurance industry has been slow to embrace digital innovation, but Newfront is a new insurtech firms aiming to transform the industry.
Spike Lipkin, CEO, was part of the original team at Opendoor and helped guide the start-up to a $3B valuation. At Opendoor, Lipkin experienced first-hand the difficulty of securing business insurance and recognized that the industry would greatly benefit from the use of AI. Newfront's ethos is customer-focused, and it aims to provide a fairer, more accessible experience for businesses.
Newfront merged with ABD Insurance, a B2B insurance provider focusing on employee benefits and financial services programs. Together, they are working to write $2B in premiums annually and occupy a more significant slice of the business insurance market. Funding is being invested into both US expansion and building the modern platform for clients, insurance professionals, and trading partners.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2022
$200m
LATE VC
Oct 2020
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $330.2m
Company benefits
- Health: Newfront offers an attractive mix of medical, dental, and vision plans for you and your family.
- Wellbeing: Resources like our employee assistance program and company work-life balance program support your peace of mind.
- Work Flexibility: Flexible PTO offerings and remote/hybrid schedules allow you to flex where and how your time is spent.
- Future Planning: Prepare for tomorrow with company equity, 401K match, and family forming benefits.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Spike Lipkin
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Newfront in 2017, Spike was the Head of Finance at Opendoor, and Investor at The Blackstone Group.
Gordon Wintrob
(Co-Founder)Gordon previously co-founded StackLead where he served as the CEO. He also worked as an Engineering Manager at LinkedIn and as a Software Engineer at CardSpring.
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