Senior Backend Software Architect, Insurify
+ Stock options
3+ days a week in office (Cambridge, MA)
Insurance quote comparison platform
Open for applications
Insurance quote comparison platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock options
3+ days a week in office (Cambridge, MA)
101-200 employees
Company mission
Insurify's mission is to help people quickly and easily save money on insurance.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 3+ years of experience in backend software development and architecture, with at least one year in a senior role
- Technical Skills: Strong proficiency in backend technologies such as Python and expertise in databases (SQL/NoSQL)
- Architecture Patterns: Proven experience with microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, and event-driven systems
- Leadership: Experience leading and mentoring offshore development teams, with a focus on cross-cultural communication and collaboration
- Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Agile Methodologies: Strong understanding of Agile development practices and experience working in a Scrum or Kanban environment
- Problem Solver: Ability to troubleshoot and solve complex backend challenges, particularly when working with distributed teams
- CI/CD & DevOps: Familiarity with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, automated testing, and DevOps principles
- The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of backend technologies, architecture patterns, and software design principles
What the job involves
- We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Backend Software Architect to lead our backend architecture and development efforts, particularly in collaboration with offshore teams
- This individual will be responsible for driving the overall technical direction of backend services, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance across systems
- In this role, you will collaborate closely with product owners, stakeholders, and global development teams, ensuring efficient communication and alignment on project goals
- You’ll play a key role in mentoring and guiding offshore teams to achieve high-quality code standards and effective development practices
- Architect and Design Systems: Lead the architecture design of backend systems, ensuring high scalability, reliability, and performance
- Collaborate with Offshore Teams: Act as the technical liaison between onshore and offshore teams, ensuring clear communication of technical requirements and goals
- Technical Leadership: Guide offshore development teams by establishing coding standards, reviewing code, and ensuring adherence to best practices
- System Integration: Design and manage integration points between backend services, databases, and external systems
- Performance Optimization: Ensure backend systems meet performance targets, implementing improvements when necessary
- Code Reviews & Quality Assurance: Conduct regular code reviews, focusing on scalability, performance, and maintainability
- Project Oversight: Provide technical leadership on projects, ensuring that offshore teams deliver high-quality, on-time results
- Problem Solving: Act as an escalation point for complex technical issues, offering solutions and guidance to offshore teams
- Documentation: Create and maintain architectural documentation, technical specifications, and best practices for offshore development teams
- Stakeholder Communication: Provide regular updates to senior leadership, translating complex technical issues into clear, actionable information
Our take
Insurify is a company that sets out to make the process of buying car insurance easier and better suited to what the customer requires. Since its founding in 2013, the company has generated over 26 million quotes, representing over 44 million dollars saved for consumers.
Operational in all 50 US states, the platform uses artificial intelligence to sift through quotes from insurance companies to empower its customers to make sensible choices. Policies can be purchased online or over the phone, and include exclusive rates and discounts found only through Insurify.
Insurify is up against fierce competition in the insurtech industry, with other comparison-shopping sites like The Zebra, Root Insurance, and Coverhound all offering similar services. That said, the company has expanded its operations substantially in recent years, with its most recent fundraise cited to support acquisitions (it has already announced plans to acquire Compare.com) as it looks to strengthen its market leadership.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2023
$22.4m
LATE VC
Sep 2021
$100m
SERIES B
Total funding: $154.1m
Company benefits
- Remote-optional workplace
- Unlimited PTO
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits
- HSA/FSA options
- Catered lunches, free snacks and beverages in the office
- 401(k) with matching contributions
- Company stock options
- Learning & development stipends
Company values
- Empowered: We empower everyone to go above and beyond
- Customer-focused: We work to solve real customer problems
- Accountable: We take ownership of our work and we are accountable for our individual and team successes and failures
- Results driven: We act with urgency everyday to drive results and high standards
- Always learning: We bring a spirit of continuous learning to everything we do
- Respect: We embrace diversity of opinions and treat everyone with respect
Company HQ
Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA
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Leadership
Snejina Zacharia
(CEO)Having worked as an Insession Technologies Project Manager, they spent 3 years at Dynamo Software and then 7 years as a Gartner Director. They took an MBA at MIT before founding Insurify in September 2013.
Tod Kiryazov
(CPO)Having spent almost 5 years at Northeastern University as Director of Digital Strategy, they co-founded Insurify in 2013.
Giorgos Zacharia
(Board Member)A seasoned Advisor and Investor for more than ten years in various companies. Former CTO of OpenTable. As well as co-founding Insurify and serving as Board Member, they are also the current President of KAYAK.
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