Senior Software Engineer I

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:

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with full-stack experience strong in back-end and API development while also comfortable contributing to front-end development when this role you will design develop and maintain scalable secure and high-performance software systems that power Zinnias enterprise platforms. You thrive as a hands-on engineer who enjoys solving complex problems writing high-quality code and collaborating with cross-functional teams. This role is well-suited for someone with a passion for modern software engineering practices cloud-native development and API-driven architectures with the ability to deliver robust solutions while contributing to team best practices.

WHAT YOULL DO:

• Design & development: Design develop document and maintain scalable secure and reusable software components and applications spanning both back-end services/APIs and front-end interfaces.
• Best practices: Contribute to defining and implementing coding standards design patterns and testing practices across services and integrations.
• API lifecycle: Build and maintain enterprise APIs following best practices and collaborate with the API management team to implement gateway capabilities (traceability monitoring security analytics).
• Software lifecycle improvements: Support enhancements to the software development and deployment lifecycle for improved speed quality and reliability.
• Testing & automation: Implement and automate unit functional integration and contract tests for services APIs and applications.
• Code quality: Write high-quality maintainable and performant code; participate in peer code reviews.
• Collaboration: Work closely with architects product managers and engineers to design solutions that align with enterprise goals.
• IAM & security: Integrate applications and APIs with enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions.
• Innovation: Stay current with emerging technologies and bring ideas to improve scalability performance and developer experience.

WHAT YOULL NEED:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 6 years of professional software development experience.
• Strong proficiency (C#) and JavaScript/TypeScript with experience using modern frameworks such as NestJS for back-end development and React Angular or for front-end applications.
• Proven experience designing developing and maintaining scalable software systems and versioned APIs.
• Experience developing and deploying applications in cloud-native environments with hands-on expertise in AWS services (Lambda EC2 S3 API Gateway DynamoDB SNS/SQS RDS).
• Experience with API gateways (e.g. Apigee Kong) and API lifecycle management.
• Experience in event-driven architecture and pub/sub messaging patterns with exposure to event streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases (e.g. MS SQL Oracle PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB DynamoDB Cassandra).
• Working knowledge of DevOps practices (CI/CD pipelines environment provisioning monitoring) and containerization technologies such as Docker.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles object-oriented design and design patterns.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Excellent problem-solving troubleshooting and communication skills; ability to work collaboratively in a distributed team.
• Commitment to continuous learning and staying up to date with the latest technologies in software development.

BONUS:

• Experience with Java and related technologies
• Knowledge of the Life Insurance & Annuities domain.

Zinnia offers excellent career progression and competitive compensation. We offer great benefits including health/dental insurance parental leave 401(k) incentive/bonus opportunity tuition reimbursement and so much more. The expected salary range for this position is $130000 - $150000 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 individuals skills education experience training and geographic location and may be above or below the stated amounts. Were 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 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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