Job Description

About the Company

Sureify and its mission: Sureify (https://sureify.com) is on a mission to modernize the life and annuity insurance industry. Composed of 200+ insurance veterans, technology experts, and creatives, Sureify offers its employees a unique opportunity to advance a powerful industry that has fallen behind digitally.

About the Role

We're looking for a talented and results-oriented Sr Technical Architect - Product Engineering to work as a key member of Sureify's expanding engineering team. You'll help build and evolve our next-generation cloud-based computing 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 supporting a suite of business applications and their worldwide delivery teams, all of whom count on a high-performance, reliable, extensible backend.

Requirements

10+ years of hands-on experience developing production-quality code - this role is for hands-on technical individual contributors who develop code along with other members, and not for any people management roles Strong knowledge of designing and developing product platforms using full-stack technologies Experience in initiating and maintaining efficiency improvement processes Strong in guiding the teams for HLDs and LLDs High-level understanding and insights into system design, considering infra tools included Excellent knowledge and understanding of coding conventions and quality standards 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, SOAP APIs, XML, 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 Bachelor's or Masters degree in Computer Science or related field

The Ideal Candidate Also Has

Experience developing production code using TypeScript Competency with either a frontend framework/library (such as React, Angular) or NodeJS 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 An appreciation for the value strong typing provides to a development team

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.