Senior Software Engineer, Jellyvision
$124.2-151.9k
Interactive software for life decision
Open for applications
Interactive software for life decision
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$124.2-151.9k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To untangle the complicated web of employee benefits.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience developing full-stack web applications
- Proficient in React
- Procient in Node.js
- Proficiency coding in Ruby on Rails and/or Python
- Understanding of relational databases (experience writing raw SQL is a bonus)
- Understands how to consume internal and external APIs
- Automated testing (unit, integration, and functional tests)
- Use of source control tools (we use git)
- Familiarity with container orchestration; ie. Docker
- Familiarity with CI/CD and pipelines
- Experience in AWS or other cloud environments (DevOps experience is a bonus)
- Bonus: Experience with a headless CMS
- Collaborates
- Communicates Effectively
- Drives Results
- Ensures Accountability
- Instills Trust
- Manages Complexity
- Tech Savvy
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll provide technical leadership for a cross-functional team consisting of application and test engineers
- You’ll spend your days writing well-designed, reliable, and maintainable code
- You’ll also keep things running by solving problems and making sure they stay solved by writing tests
- Write high-quality, maintainable, reliable, and performant code
- Adhere to Agile methodologies and focus on rapid delivery, CI/CD, and test automation
- Manage code repositories and codebase health
- Write unit, integration, and browser tests
- Lead the design and implementation of complex software systems or applications
- Mentor junior developers, conduct code reviews, and provide technical guidance to ensure code quality and best practices
- Architect scalable and maintainable solutions that meet performance and security requirements
- Investigate and resolve technical issues, bugs, and performance bottlenecks
- Proactively identifies areas in the team's code where technical debt may slow the team, and can understand the cost/benefit of addressing it and present it to the team
- Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and trends in software development
- We’ll measure success by ticket throughput, impact on team metrics, and quality of deliverables
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and other stakeholders to define high level system requirements
- Coach and mentor less experienced team members
- Give and receive constructive code review feedback
- Collaborate with Jellyvision's non-tech teams (ex. designers, writers, producers)
- We’ll measure success by performance reviews and assessing feedback from peers and stakeholders
Our take
Following Jellyvision’s first successful iteration as a games developer, the company reopened in 2001 to build on its voice-recognition interface and develop interactive conversational counselor ALEX. ALEX helps employees navigate the complex process of making health insurance, finance, and healthcare decisions, with an emphasis on delivering funny and personable conversations.
One poll suggested just a third of employees fully understand their coverage options, and this number is expected to grow with remote working reducing the availability of in-person information sessions. So tools like ALEX stand to offer material improvements to employee experience, as well as alleviating HR workloads. Both of these elements should prove attractive to companies looking to stay abreast of changing workplace expectations.
It will be interesting to see if Jellyvision’s friendly focus will win the company a lead over rivals like Nayya. However, with new hires in senior leadership to manage Jellyvision through a planned period of growth, and the virtual benefits technology market at large receiving increasing interest, it may make strong strides.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2017
$20m
LATE VC
Jan 2008
$5m
SERIES B
Total funding: $25m
Company benefits
- Employer-paid premiums (based on plan selection)
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- 401(k) with Employer Match
- HSAs & FSAs
- Flexible PTO, Monthly Self-care Days, Focus (meeting-free) Fridays
- Flexible Work Schedules + Remote-First Culture
- Generous Parental Leave
- Gender Transition Assistance
- Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance
- Family Concierge Benefit
- Home Office Allowance (for your workspace and wifi)
- Gym & Wellness Allowance
- Lifetime Learner Allowance (for professional development & student loans)
- Charity Allowance (no donation required)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Employee Resource Groups
- Monthly company events
- Professional development opportunities
- Ask Leadership Anything series
- Unconscious Bias training
Company HQ
Goose Island, Chicago, IL
Articles
Leadership
Harry Gottlieb
(Founder)Studied at Brown before going on to found four companies: Learn Television, Jellyvision, Jackbox Games, and Unify America. They also sit on the Board of Directors at UpStart Lab.
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