Senior Backend Software Engineer, Next Insurance

• 3-5 years of server-side development experience in Java/Kotlin, or similar languages (Python, .NET, Golang)
• Experience designing, building and documenting REST APIs with JAX-RS
• Experience working with and building with microservices architecture
• Experience with ORM frameworks (JPA, Hibernate, OpenJPA)
• Automated build platforms/continuous integration experience and knowledge (Bamboo, Jenkins, Hudson, Maven, Gradle)
• Knowledge of high-availability, high-performance, high-scalability web application development
• Able to jump into new or existing code bases & learn new technologies and skills quickly
• Experience refactoring existing code to improve readability, code reuse, performance, and maintainability
• Ability to communicate with business users to identify problems and offer creative solutions
• Experience working on high-performing teams and are accustomed to shipping code that is widely used and you can iterate to incorporate user feedback
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject or equivalent demonstrated experience
• You are passionate about coding
• You care equally about what should be done and how it should be done
• You know how to build an enterprise web application from scratch
• Focus on quality and simplicity
• Team player, strong communication skills, and empathetic
• You make things as simple as possible but not simpler
• You never stop improving

Desirable

• This position will be the lead back end API developer for a new platform to serve our ever increasing customer base
• Architecture, design, and coding from idea to deployment will be required
• This position will also provide technical support to our internal business units and customers as needed
• Design and build enterprise REST API’s and services that perform various insurance operations
• Work with the product team to groom requirements and present scalable design’s to architects for approval and implement end to end solutions
• Provide product support, triage and resolve issues of high priority
• Support FE engineering by providing API’s they can interact with
• Take ownership of backend-end components and drive continual expansion, reuse, and improvement across the board
• Integrate with other back-end infrastructure, mostly cloud-based
• Analyze and solve problems across all levels of the stack
• Produce clean, secure, testable, maintainable, reusable, well-documented code, and participate in and drive regular code reviews
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability