Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer

San Jose, CA

Sureify's mission is to modernize the life insurance and annuity industry by helping carriers acquire, service, and engage their customers through any distribution channel. Sureify's products empower life insurance carriers, agents, employees, and customers to have the digital experiences employees and consumers have come to expect in the rapidly advancing tech climate.

We're looking for a talented and results-oriented software engineer who can be a key member of Sureify's expanding engineering team. You'll help build and evolve our next-generation cloud based compute platform for digitally-delivered life insurance. This is your opportunity to make a large impact at a high-growth enterprise software company in the life insurance space. You'll collaborate with other developers and a product manager to build software that is part of Sureify's core product suite.

Requirements

• Ability to collaborate in-person 1-2 days a week from our San Jose office
• 10+ years of experience developing production-quality code
• Ability to provide technical leadership and mentorship to less experienced engineers
• Experience designing relational database schemas
• A firm understanding of object oriented design or functional programming as well as common data structures and algorithms
• Strong communication skills, and the ability to work collaboratively in a close-knit team
• Experience working with 3rd party software integrations (REST APIs, JSON, etc.)
• A solid understanding of the challenges of distributed systems
• Experience building secure applications and methodically improving application performance (Profilers, APM tools, Security scanning tools)
• Experience with CI/CD tooling
• Must be able to work mostly during Pacific Time Zone hours
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

The Ideal Candidate Also Has

• An appreciation for the value strong typing provides to a development team
• Experience developing production code using TypeScript
• Experience developing production code using React
• Experience developing SaaS applications that run on top of AWS (and familiarity with S3, EKS, RDS, EC2)
• Familiarity with Docker
• A desire to work with engineers to develop their test-driven development practice
• Developed and supported an abstraction layer that allows less experienced engineers to be productive

Our Culture

We are a close group at Sureify, bound together by strong working relationships and a common mission in the industry. The success of our customers is very important to us, and we value merit in the workplace, long-term thinking, and the flourishing of all our employees.

Experience working in a startup or an ability to adapt to a small, rapidly-growing company mindset is required. There is an expectation that you can be agile amidst the fluctuations inherent to a young company establishing itself in the marketplace. Frequently we have to come together as a team and go beyond the responsibility of our roles to ensure success.

Base annual salary $240,000 - $260,000 USD

Our Guiding Principles

Our products are for nothing if their creators are not fulfilled in their work. We want our employees to flourish at Sureify. We do not fawn over status or titles, instead, we honor effort and intelligence. The best idea wins no matter which colleague proposed it. We do not shortcut our mission with overblown claims or false promises. Sticking to the truth is both a strategy and a principle for us.

Sureify is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

If you are a California resident, please be aware Sureify collects personal information from you during the application process, which may include your name, contact details, employment history, and educational background, in accordance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). We use this information solely to evaluate your candidacy for employment and may share it with internal hiring personnel as needed.