Senior Software Engineer
(2+ years exp)Corvus Insurance
The Role
Looking for a company that embraces new technology? Are you interested in Elixir, the Erlang VM, or Elm? Would you like to be an early part of company with lots of growth potential? Corvus Insurance seeks a talented Full Stack Software Engineer to join our early stage technology team. We are a dynamic team of entrepreneurial professionals with backgrounds in insurance and technology creating a commercial insurance company that combines the latest technology with traditional insurance. You will be instrumental in building software systems that create actionable data for our users. You will report to our Engineering Manager.
Responsibilities
- You will be responsible for shipping high-quality, production-ready code
- You will write GraphQL APIs and backend services in Elixir using Phoenix and Absinthe
- You will write user interfaces in Elm
- You will work closely with designers and product managers to understand the problems of our end users (insurance brokers, insurance buyers, and Corvus staff)
- You will participate in customer interviews and user testing
- You will review Pull Requests
- You will actively seek to be a better engineer and help others get better
Desired Skills
- Experience developing and deploying advanced web based applications and services into staging and production environments
- Desire to immerse yourself in functional languages: Elixir and Elm
- You write readable, quality code and make sure your tests are green before merging into master; you provide code reviews for your fellow team members
- You appreciate Devops (Ansible, Puppet, Docker, etc) and the massive scalability provided by cloud computing and Amazon EC2
- You're comfortable working at an early stage startup and are ready to build a greenfield system (no legacy codebase).You collaborate well with others and are dedicated to the company's success
Benefits
- Fun, creative, and energetic work environment
- Frequent employee social events (off-site team building, catered team lunches, retreats, etc.)
- Casual dress code
- Paid Time Off
- Employer paid benefits
- 401(k) + employer match
- Access to opportunities to expand your skill set and share your knowledge with others across the organization
- Company culture of promotions from within, with a start-up atmosphere allowing for varied and rapid career development
- Convenient office location near both Red, Green, Blue and Orange lines in Downtown Boston
Corvus embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.