Software Developer

Our Client is focused on democratizing Insurance through technology. It is a cloud-based platform connecting distributors to the Insurance Ecosystem to sell and manage Insurance programs. They are creating a middleware connecting consumers, traditional insurance institutions, intermediaries, and service partners on a single platform. Basically, give distributors the ability access to the entire Insurance ecosystem via 1 API / 1 platform.

Their goal is simple - Provide a new way to do Insurance, which is secure, easy, and focuses on the consumer while staying compliant with the frameworks laid down by the regulator.

Description

This is a mission-critical role. They are a small, diverse, agile and high-performance, engineering team. They are looking for versatile developers who will:

• Innovate their existing product and work on creating tools that crunch integration times and time to market
• Improve through peer-learning and transmit them to the firm's dev ecosystem.
• Take ownership and get the job done.

They are clear. They need role shapers, not role takers.

Key Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for design, development and delivery our web-based application in an agile manner built on Java Spring Boot, React, My SQL and Mongo DB.
• You will be expected to write code on day-to-day basis while testing it on real world use cases
• You will be an independent owner of your feature on the platform.
• You will be a part of the core software development team and are expected to participate in all development cycles.
• You will be responsible for closure of business requirements end-to-end by working cross-functionally and will be expected to mentor and drive other members of the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer / Technology domain.
• 4-7 years of relevant work experience, preferably in a start-up environment/ building SaaS products.
• Excellent coding skills with ability to deliver in a hyper growth phase.
• Hands on experience in JAVA and practical experience in developing and designing scalable software solutions.
• Excellent Problem-solving skills & understanding of data structures in a complex environment.
• Extensive experience in Spring, Hibernate and SpringBoot
• Experience in building REST Services
• Experience in integrating third party APIs (Payment gateways, SMS gateways, Accounting software APIs, APIs of CRM tools etc.) into web applications
• Experience in working with SQL and no SQL DBs (Preferably Mongo DB)
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker is a plus
• Knowledge of how insurance processes and past experience in working on insurance applications is a plus.

Must have extensive and in-depth knowledge and experience in developing APIs in NodeJS, HTML5/CSS/Javascript, MongoDB, Git, production application deployments. And optionally ReactJS Components/Websites/UI/UX, Redux etc.

Cloud infra management

AWS SDK, Google Maps SDK

Elastic Search engine

Mocha or any testing framework

Continuous delivery

Redis, ExpressJS, Apollo Client, PubSub

Responsibilities

Development of web applications and modules

Drafting ReactJS front ends components based on provided mock-ups.

Architecting database and REST/GraphQL APIs for front end.

Integrating multiple 3rd party SDKs including but not limited to AWS, Messagebird, Twilio, Lalamove, Google Maps etc.

Write and execute unit tests

Bug fixes, support and enhancements

UAT and Production deployments

Performance optimizations and app security implementations

Cloud infra management

Backup plans and risk mitigation techniques implementation

• Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; and following the software development lifecycle.
• Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code.
• Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
• Improves operations by conducting systems analysis and recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment, and by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations.
• Protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues.
• Accomplishes engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed.
• Supports and develops software engineers by providing advice, coaching, and educational opportunities.

Senior Fullstack Developer (MERN Stack) having min 4 years of relevant experience with hands-on experience in handling all aspects of Product Management internal and external facing Product development. Work with Founders to set a product vision and strategy that delivers unique value based on customer needs and expectation. Work closely with development and program management to deliver products and features.

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrated experience managing the full product development life cycle, including product conceptualization,  prototyping, and development
• Software development experience to not just be able to solve stuff on your own but also to better communicate / manage and colloborate between team
• Hands on leader who's comfortable coding, providing code reviews, and leading complex architectural design discussions in team setting. Can set coding standards, ensure quality.
• Team leading experience
• Technical Expertise in AWS deployment
• Very deep capabilities to architect enterprise class applications on the cloud with web/mobile front ends. Microservices Architecture. Cross-platform integrations.

Stack base:

UI - Tailwind, styled components, react (familiar in Functional components and hooks) and react router

State management - Redux and redux saga,

Backend - Express and node,

Database - Redis and MongoDB with mongoose ODM