Software Engineer II

Role Description

As a Software Engineer II on the Digital Sales team, you will be working with our web quoting experience and have direct impact on Hagerty’s revenue. In this role you can expect to partner with other engineers to implement new features, maintain existing applications, and share knowledge with your fellow teammates. You will be working with a mix of technologies like JavaScript frameworks and .Net.

What you’ll do:

• Develop maintainable, scalable, secure, and resilient software by:
  • Thoroughly understanding your tasks including the associated business needs, architectural and system interaction designs, and operational need.
  • Writing clean, human-readable code and applying feedback received on your code to future work.
  • Developing and designing comprehensive and automated unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
  • Actively reviewing the telemetry (logs, metrics, etc.) produced by the service to ensure it is easy to support.
• Own and support features, modules, and products by:
  • Being able to thoroughly explain and demonstrate the usage of your product’s features from the perspective of its customers.
  • Thoroughly understanding in-development features and supporting less experienced developers.
  • Actively practicing troubleshooting and participating in the on-call support rotation for team’s production services.
  • Monitoring key product metrics, analyzing changes over time, and supporting prediction of future changes.
• Improve your skills as an engineer by:
  • Carefully researching how the components of our technology stack are designed and understanding the tradeoffs made by those design choices.
  • Learning to define and properly apply abstractions that make our code more flexible and intelligible.
  • Understanding and effectively communicating the system resource and performance impact of design decisions.
  • Learning to take the perspective of others and communicate effectively from that point of view.
• Contribute to and engage in a collaborative environment by:
  • Being an active participant in all team activities: team ceremonies, banter, troubleshooting, design discussion, work breakdowns, etc.
  • Explaining the purpose of team practices and behaviors, modeling them, and helping less experienced engineers adopt them.
  • Helping less experienced engineers know the difference between something they can reasonably figure out on their own and when they are blocked.
  • Coaching less experienced engineers on our tools, techniques, and patterns.

Qualifications

• Completed some professional training (e.g., college, bootcamps) in software development.
• Comfortable working and actively participating within smaller (5-10 people) technical groups.
• Eager to deeply learn, both independently and with help, our technologies and patterns such as:
  • Languages: C#, Typescript
  • Databases: Strong MS SQL knowledge, complex SQL queries, relational schemas
  • Interservice Communication: API patterns (ReST, RPC, GraphQL), brokered and non-brokered messaging
  • Security: SAML, OAuth 2, OIDC, data encryption, signing, CSRF
  • System Performance: load testing, application profiling, OS profiling
  • Operational Readiness: diagnostic and audit logging, metrics, tracing, monitoring, alerting
  • Deployment: VMs, containers, cloud providers, configuration management, canary deployments
  • Expert in CI/CD best practices
  • Expert with modern testing frameworks utilizing NUNIT, Selenium, Playwright, Jest (or similar)
  • Network: TCP/IP, Firewalls, load balancers
  • Cloud: AWS experience
• Able to clearly communicate your thoughts and actively listen to and integrate the thoughts and comments of others.

Requirements

• This role can be worked from any U.S. remote location.
• May require travel for quarterly events.
• Familiarity with public company requirements, including Sarbanes Oxley and key regulations, if applicable.

Benefits

• Compensation and comprehensive benefits.
• Perks that set us apart.

Company Description

Hagerty is an automotive enthusiast brand and the world’s largest membership organization. Along with being a best-in-class provider of specialty insurance for enthusiasts, Hagerty is also home to the Hagerty Drivers Foundation, Hagerty Drivers Club, Marketplace and so much more. Committed to saving driving for future generations, each and every thing Hagerty does is dedicated to the love of the automobile.

Hagerty is a rapidly growing company that values a winning culture. We provide meaningful work for and invest in every single team member.

At Hagerty, we share the road. We are an inclusive automotive community where all are welcomed, valued and belong regardless of race, gender, age, or car preference. We are united by our shared passion for driving, our commitment to preserve car culture for future generations and our desire to make a positive impact in the world.