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Backend Lead Software Engineer


Insurance is a trillion dollar market that is fundamental to society, yet it has not modernized — until now. 

Newfront is building the modern insurance experience. 

We've reimagined the experience for clients, prospects, and employees, altering the way people create, understand, select, transact, and use insurance. We're changing the approach so that it starts and ends with the client, not the product, and empowering people for moments that matter. 

Our unique approach recognizes both the vast potential of technology and the fundamental role of insurance experts. We're a technology-driven company with DE&I in our DNA and strong values [1]; we believe people matter most. 

Our mission is to define the future of the insurance industry, while instilling a high performance culture in combination with living our Work, Love, Play ethos each day. We value balanced lives and are passionate about creating a culture of wellness that results in healthier, happier, and more productive employees, and more successful clients.

As an Engineering Lead at Newfront, you will work with a team building features across the platform to help clients manage their risk and supercharge our brokers. There are tons of challenging technical problems to solve that directly impact the lives of your teammates and Newfront clients.

Newfront scales by hiring brokers who join with their book of business. Through automation and artificial intelligence, we eliminate paperwork and pay brokers a higher split of their commission revenue. We represent a paradigm shift in the industry and career path for tens of thousands of brokers.

This position is open to remote candidates with Pacific Time Zone preferred. #LI-Remote

🎥 To learn more about the technology we're building, watch our video Engineering at Newfront [2]🚀 To learn more about our mission and values, check out our Careers Page [3] or Key Values [4]💰 To learn more about our funding, check out this Forbes article [5]

What you'll work on

    • Lead the development of product features: You'll be involved during product discovery and you'll contribute to the technical design process. You are product-minded and able to collaborate with a Product Manager to define the product roadmap and vision. You'll be responsible for speccing and guiding your team in building out features and infrastructure
    • Shape business processes: As Newfront is a technology-driven brokerage, we are looking for new ways to improve business processes through technology. You will become the expert on how an area of the business functions and work directly with stakeholders to constantly delight client, grow revenue, and increase efficiency
    • Define technical direction: You will help shape the technical vision and roadmap for a large area of the product. You will also influence best practices and introduce new technologies when appropriate. You'll need to clearly communicate your vision with the team to gain support and a shared understanding of the technologies
    • Mentor other engineers: You will work with other engineers on your team to help them grow and develop their skills

Requirements

    • 5+ years of engineering experience. You have previous success developing and shipping a large-scale application with a user-empathetic mindset
    • 2+ years of experience leading an engineering team. You have proven abilities in providing technical direction for a small to medium team of engineers
    • You're product-minded. You take initiative to understand production intention, team goals, business context, and user problems to propose improvements, eliminate gaps, and reduce risk in the project. You contribute to and drive the team roadmap with product and design. You meet with stakeholders across the company when needed to eliminate gaps in your knowledge. You work closely with design to create a world class User Experience
    • Security-minded. You have a detailed understanding of security protocols like OAuth2/OIDC/JWT. You understand client-side cookie authentication and JWT. You should have an understanding of front-end security risks and how to mitigate them
    • In-depth knowledge of microservice/cloud and enterprise architecture patterns. You have a track record of success in architecting and building distributed applications in the cloud. You design for efficiency, reliability, and resiliency and know when to make trade-offs between them. You have experience with messaging/pub-sub systems such as SNS/SQS, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, or similar
    • You have some experience with web technologies including JavaScript (React), HTML, and CSS. While you may not be spending your time developing in these, you have a decent understanding of them and know how to coordinate with those who are

Nice to haves

    • Proficiency in NodeJS and Typescript
    • Experience with Dependency Injection Frameworks
    • Understanding of containerization technologies such as Docker
    • Experience deploying services in AWS using Terraform

Some of the technologies we use

    • NodeJS
    • TypeScript
    • PostgreSQL
    • AWS SNS/SQS
    • AWS ECS
    • Docker
    • React/Nextjs
    • NestJS
    • Redis
    • Github
    • CircleCI
    • Vercel
At Newfront, we are committed to hiring diverse talent and supporting an inclusive workplace environment. If you are excited about a role at Newfront but feel you’re missing a few of the qualifications, we still encourage you to apply and tell us about yourself. You may just be the next Newfront team member that we are looking for! 

Newfront is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Diversity is in our DNA and we believe that creating an inclusive workplace elevates the value we are able to bring to our customers and employees alike. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other applicable status protected by state or local law. 

If you require reasonable accommodations throughout the application or interview process, please contact us at careers@newfront.com. For information regarding how Newfront collects and uses personal information, please review our Privacy Policy [6].Apply for this job [7]

  1. https://www.newfront.com/careers#our-values
  2. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6513862682058330112
  3. https://www.newfront.com/careers
  4. https://www.keyvalues.com/newfront
  5. https://www.forbes.com/sites/igorbosilkovski/2020/10/20/exclusive-meet-the-entrepreneurs-who-have-raised-over-100-million-to-digitize-insurance/
  6. https://www.newfront.com/privacy
  7. https://jobs.lever.co/newfrontinsurance/1ef7d406-b918-4232-a816-337856cdbc33/apply

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