What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer - Ruby on Rails position at Bold Penguin, Inc?
YOUR ROLE
In your role as a senior software engineer you will be an expert in modern day application development. You’ll be part of a cross-functional product team to help build & launch products that drastically improve the commercial insurance industry. You will have familiarity with the practices of high-performing engineering organizations such as Git-Flow, pull requests, unit testing, cloud architecture & design, and SCRUM. You will be working in collaboration with your teammates in other technical areas including backend, tooling, deployment, etc. Your users will be commercial insurance agents and insurance carriers who will benefit from your engineering expertise every day to efficiently provide commercial insurance for small business owners. In other words, you’ll be seen as a pretty big deal here.
Our Senior Software Engineers will work and train cross-functionally to learn additional coding languages and may work within one, several or across all depending on the team or project aligned to. You will be an excellent hands-on contributor and you’ll be a mentor for other software engineers.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Build, maintain, and integrate APIs to facilitate quoting and binding insurance policies for small business owners.
- Write clean, well-tested code.
- Participate in agile ceremonies such as iteration planning, retrospectives, and standups.
- Work with product managers, designers, site-reliability engineers, backend engineers, and customers to build powerful, impactful products.
- Participate in the full lifecycle of the software development life cycle from ideation to delivery.
- Build internal component libraries that will be used across products to ensure an uncommonly great user experience.
- Learn from and mentor other engineers in areas such as unit testing, continuous integration, DRY/SOLID principles, and SDLC.
- Proactively research possible issues affecting the availability of our platform.
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
