Senior Software Engineer (9_2024)

Socotra

Socotra

Software Engineering
United States · Remote
Posted 6+ months ago

Socotra is transforming core technology operations for the trillion-dollar insurance industry. Our born-in-the-cloud platform streamlines the end-to-end insurance policy lifecycle, including underwriting, policy administration, claims, billing, and reporting. Socotra is built on modern architecture, allowing carriers to increase their speed to market, lower product and production costs, experience cloud-based reliability, and easily integrate with new technologies.

We seek a talented, self-motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our expanding European engineering team. As a key engineering team member, you will help build, evolve, and scale our core technology platform to drive product innovation and success.

Experience we are looking for:

  • 6+ years of software development experience with an excellent understanding of core Java concepts and clean code principles; solid experience in Java server-side technologies (preferably Spring-based) and good testing skills & working knowledge of JUnit, Mockito

  • Proven experience with relational databases such as MySQL, Oracle, and Postgres.

  • Solid understanding of common data structures, algorithms, and OO design.

  • Docker - building images, debugging, and deploying to Kubernetes / Minikube

  • Git: git-flow / PR reviews

Experience nice to have:

  • Cloud services - experience with any of the leading cloud providers

  • Microservices architecture, gRPC

  • Proficiency in database design principles, data modeling, and the ability to translate business requirements into efficient database structures.

  • Experience optimizing database queries for better performance and understanding the importance of indexing, normalization, and denormalization.

What you will do:

  • Work as a key member of an agile team to design, develop, and test end-to-end projects that meet our clients' requirements.

  • Design and implement scalable REST API's and backend processes for a configurable insurance cloud platform

  • Provides technical guidance and assumes responsibility for all development activities.

  • We aim to raise awareness of industry trends and potential new technologies that can positively impact our customer base.

  • Mentor team members in design collaboration, code reviews, development tools, and processes

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and meaningful equity

  • Top-tier health benefits

  • Fitness Stipend

  • Monday and Friday Virtual Yoga Classes

  • Flexible vacation policy

  • Competitive Health Reimbursement Accounts (HRA) for Dental and Vision

  • Geo Blue / Supplemental International Travel Insurance for Business or Leisure Travel

This position is fully remote. Salary and equity are commensurate with experience.


Socotra is an E-Verified company. For more information, don't hesitate to get in touch with our recruiting team and visit the following website: https://www.e-verify.gov/


Compensation: $150K – $175K • 0.024% – 0.03%