Staff Software Engineer

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 a Staff Engineer you will execute on our product vision for modern frictionless and scalable API-first systems which collectively deliver the best end-to-end Life & Annuities solution in the industry. You will partner with fellow engineers to create a reusable predictable and discoverable design and development framework enabling rapid consistent and maintainable solutions across the are seeking a team player with leadership experience exceptional API security expertise and a proven track record of successful delivery. You combine architectural vision with hands-on coding skills ensuring solutions are both strategically sound and practically implemented.

WHAT YOULL DO:

• Architect and build: Design document and evangelize API standards and best practices across all Zinnia APIs.
• Hands-on coding: Write high-quality maintainable and performant code to build reusable frameworks and services.
• Lead API delivery: Partner with and guide the Enterprise API team to deliver scalable and highly performant enterprise-grade APIs.
• API governance: Implement API gateway capabilities (traceability monitoring security analytics) and recommend improvements for the full API lifecycle.
• API documentation: Maintain high-quality API documentation using Swagger or similar tools to ensure clarity consistency and ease of use for internal and external consumers
• Code quality: Conduct code reviews and ensure alignment with architectural principles standards and design patterns.
• Technical guidance: Make critical design decisions provide architectural oversight and mentor developers.
• Integration: Work with IAM solutions and cloud-native services to secure and scale APIs.
• Collaboration: Partner cross-functionally (product security DevOps infra) to ensure API strategy aligns with enterprise goals.
• 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 related field.
• 10 years of software development experience with 4 years in a staff engineer architect or technical lead role.
• Strong proficiency (C#) and JavaScript/TypeScript (NestJS NextJS).
• Proven ability to architect large-scale API solutions while also contributing as a hands-on coder.
• Strong expertise in event-driven architecture and pub/sub messaging patterns with experience in event streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka.
• Expertise in API management and gateway technologies (e.g. Apigee Kong) and proven ability to integrate with enterprise IAM systems for secure API access.
• Experience designing and maintaining versioned external/internal-facing APIs.
• Cloud-native development experience with AWS services such as Lambda EC2 S3 API Gateway DynamoDB SNS/SQS and RDS.
• 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 design principles patterns and API governance.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Excellent communication critical thinking and leadership skills with the ability to influence and mentor teams.
• 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.

WHATS IN IT FOR YOU
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 $175000 to $190000 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 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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