WHO WE ARE:
Zinnia Marketplace is a life insurance platform aimed at consumers, designed to cater to the digital age. We help match families with the right insurance product and carrier through our data-enabled aggregated marketplace, customized for each family's needs. Zinnia transforms life and annuity products' creation, sale, and administration. We’re addressing the new realities of the marketplace, and we understand what consumers want and deserve: a great experience from the moment they consider these products until theirpolicies are claimed.Zinnia Open Insurance is advanced data-driven technology that accelerates innovation, enables unrivaled speed-to-market, deepens relationships with policyholders, and empowers better risk-based outcomes.
Open transforms the end-to-end experience to make everything faster, more transparent, and more collaborative for consumers, carriers, and advisors. Zinnia is a new tech company, but we’re not new to insurance. We’re L&A experts and technology innovators building Open Insurance to power exceptional digital experiences.WHO YOU ARE:Senior Software Engineers are crucial in the design, development/configuration, unit testing, installing, and maintaining Zinnia software platforms. Senior Software Engineers work with stakeholders to develop solutions and/or products that fulfill the needs of Zinnia's internal stakeholders and clients.
Those solutions and/or products help Zinnia deliver a better and more efficient service to end customers and clients. Senior Software Engineers interact directly with Technical leaders and business stakeholders. Senior software engineers also mentor other engineers and share their experience and knowledge to help others develop their own skills.WHAT YOU’LL DO:* Iteratively build features (and squash bugs) for the Zinnia Marketplace team, which helps people get the insurance coverage they need to protect their family, property, and finances* Learn new frameworks and tools to build and support features across multiple platforms and tech stacks* Collaborate globally on a cross-functional team to identify, prioritize, and take opportunities to help customers get the financial protection they need, and feel good about it* Architect and maintain scalable, extensible code to empower our entire engineering organization to ship products across platforms* Build cross-platform products and features using React and Typescript, Golang, and Ruby on Rails, and lots of gRPC and GraphQL in between* Mentor other engineers and share your experience and knowledge to help them develop their own skillsWHAT YOU’LL NEED:* 6-10 years of experience in backend technologies like Golang, Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript.* A track record of – and desire to continue – learning new technologies and tools across the stack* An understanding of distributed systems, cloud technologies, and containerization (e.g., Kubernetes)* Experience in designing and developing a microservices architecture* Experience implementing industry best practices (e.g.
Continuous Integration & Deployment)* Excellent problem-solving skills, a keen eye for detail, and a desire to deliver high-quality code* Proficiency in Git, Jira, and other relevant tools* Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a dynamic team environment* A strong sense of product and user experience* A desire to mentor other engineers and collaboratively share best practicesTechnical Skills:* Object Oriented Programming (OOPS) and design patterns* Programming using a dynamic Backend language (i.e., Golang, Python, or Ruby)* Programming using JavaScript or TypeScript, React is a plus* Experience implementing industry best practices (i.e., Unit Testing, Quality Automation)* Knowledge and experience with SOA/Microservice Architecture* Knowledge of steaming platforms like Kafka* Experience using Git, DockerQualifications:BTech / BE / MCA / MTech / ME or equivalent qualification from reputed institutesBONUS POINTS:* Good experience in GoLang, Typescript, and React* Experience working in the insurance industry is advantageous.
