What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Staff Software Engineer position at Zinnia?
Who We Are
Zinnia is the leading technology platform for accelerating life and annuities growth. With innovative enterprise solutions and data insights, Zinnia simplifies the experience of buying, selling, and administering insurance products. All of which enables more people to protect their financial futures. Our success is driven by a commitment to three core values: be bold, team up, deliver value – and that we do. Zinnia has over $180 billion in assets under administration, serves 100 carrier clients, 2500 distributors and partners, and over 2 million policyholders.
Who You Are
As part of our software engineering team, you will take the lead in building the next-generation infrastructure and platforms for Zinnia, including but not limited to: scalable notifications systems, analytics platform, data pipelines, cutting-edge search platform, best-in-class AI/ML infrastructure, Kubernetes compute infrastructure, document storage infrastructure, etc. You will work and learn among the best, putting to use your passion for distributed technologies and algorithms, API design and systems design, and your passion for writing code that performs at massive scale. We also work with industry standard technologies like REST, Kafka, GBQ and sql/no sql databases - come join our engineering teams and share the knowledge with a broader organization while making a real impact within our company.
As a Sr. Staff Software Engineer, you will be a key technical leader and role model within the organization. We are looking for a technical lead who designs and develops technology to serve business and technology objectives, aligns points of view across teams and makes trade offs to help achieve the goals of individual teams as well as Zinnia’s broader goals. You will foster Zinnia’s culture and values around ‘be bold’, ‘team up; & ‘deliver value’. You will work closely with technical leadership and management within and outside our organization to contribute to building best-in-class core systems infrastructure for Zinnia.
What You’ll Do
Zinnia offers excellent career progression and competitive compensation. We offer great benefits, including health/dental insurance, parental leave, profit sharing, 401(k), incentive/bonus opportunity, tuition reimbursement, and so much more. The expected salary range for this position is $175,000 - $200,000, dependent on skills and location. The salary range is a good faith estimate based on what a successful candidate might be paid in certain Company locations. All offers presented to candidates are carefully reviewed to ensure fair, equitable pay by offering competitive salaries that align with the individual’s skills, education, experience, training, and geographic location and may be above or below the stated amounts. We’re looking for the best and brightest innovators in the industry to join our team. At Zinnia, you collaborate with smart, creative professionals who are dedicated to delivering cutting-edge technologies, deeper data insights, and enhanced services to transform how insurance is done. Visit our website at www.zinnia.com for more information. Apply by completing the online application on the careers section of our website. We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.
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Zinnia is the leading technology platform for accelerating life and annuities growth. With innovative enterprise solutions and data insights, Zinnia simplifies the experience of buying, selling, and administering insurance products. All of which enables more people to protect their financial futures. Our success is driven by a commitment to three core values: be bold, team up, deliver value – and that we do. Zinnia has over $180 billion in assets under administration, serves 100 carrier clients, 2500 distributors and partners, and over 2 million policyholders.
Who You Are
As part of our software engineering team, you will take the lead in building the next-generation infrastructure and platforms for Zinnia, including but not limited to: scalable notifications systems, analytics platform, data pipelines, cutting-edge search platform, best-in-class AI/ML infrastructure, Kubernetes compute infrastructure, document storage infrastructure, etc. You will work and learn among the best, putting to use your passion for distributed technologies and algorithms, API design and systems design, and your passion for writing code that performs at massive scale. We also work with industry standard technologies like REST, Kafka, GBQ and sql/no sql databases - come join our engineering teams and share the knowledge with a broader organization while making a real impact within our company.
As a Sr. Staff Software Engineer, you will be a key technical leader and role model within the organization. We are looking for a technical lead who designs and develops technology to serve business and technology objectives, aligns points of view across teams and makes trade offs to help achieve the goals of individual teams as well as Zinnia’s broader goals. You will foster Zinnia’s culture and values around ‘be bold’, ‘team up; & ‘deliver value’. You will work closely with technical leadership and management within and outside our organization to contribute to building best-in-class core systems infrastructure for Zinnia.
What You’ll Do
- Deliver impact by driving innovation while building and shipping software at scale
- Provide architectural guidance and mentorship to up-level the engineering organization
- Actively improve the level of craftsmanship at Zinnia by developing best practices and defining best strategies
- Design products/services/tools and code that can be used by others while upholding operational impact of all decisions
- Functioning as the tech-lead for multiple key initiatives, identify problems and opportunities and lead teams to architect, design, implement and operationalize systems
- Partner closely with teams within the org and customers to execute on the vision for long-term success of our core infrastructure teams
- Working closely with the open-source community to participate and influence cutting edge open-source projects.
- Keep a platform first approach while designing products/service
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent technical experience
- 2 years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions
- 5 years of experience programming in object-oriented languages such as Java, Go, Rust, Python, Scala
- 3 years of experience as an architect, or technical leadership position
- Hands-on experience developing large-scale, distributed systems, and databases
- 10 years of experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions with at least 5 years of experience in a technical leadership position
- 10 years of experience in an object-oriented programming language such as Java, Go, Rust, Python, Scala
- 5 years of experience with large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures
- Experience in architecting and designing large-scale distributed systems related to data infrastructure, Kubernetes, and platforms.
- Experience in Distributed Systems, Technical Leadership and Systems Infrastructure
Zinnia offers excellent career progression and competitive compensation. We offer great benefits, including health/dental insurance, parental leave, profit sharing, 401(k), incentive/bonus opportunity, tuition reimbursement, and so much more. The expected salary range for this position is $175,000 - $200,000, dependent on skills and location. The salary range is a good faith estimate based on what a successful candidate might be paid in certain Company locations. All offers presented to candidates are carefully reviewed to ensure fair, equitable pay by offering competitive salaries that align with the individual’s skills, education, experience, training, and geographic location and may be above or below the stated amounts. We’re looking for the best and brightest innovators in the industry to join our team. At Zinnia, you collaborate with smart, creative professionals who are dedicated to delivering cutting-edge technologies, deeper data insights, and enhanced services to transform how insurance is done. Visit our website at www.zinnia.com for more information. Apply by completing the online application on the careers section of our website. We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.
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Salary : $175,000 - $200,000
