Senior Software Engineer

Pie's mission is to empower small businesses to thrive by making commercial insurance affordable and as easy as pie. We leverage technology to transform how small businesses buy and experience commercial insurance.   Like our small business customers, we are a diverse team of builders, dreamers, and entrepreneurs who are driven by core values and operating principles that guide every decision we make.

We are seeking highly motivated and accomplished Senior Fullstack Engineers who encourage an environment where engineers are thought leaders and foster a culture of diversity and inclusion. Acting as leaders across the organization on design, architecture, and best practice, they elevate those around them and push the company forward.

How You’ll Do It

• You'll actively own features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems.
• You view working with product management, product design, stakeholders, and your fellow engineers as a collaborative and transparent process.
• You’ll be integral to continually refining our engineering practices and architectural designs to align with Pie's objectives, collaborating closely with other senior and staff engineers and technology leadership, while also championing and promoting best practices across the organization.
• You'll produce high-quality results by leading or contributing heavily to large cross-functional projects that have a significant impact on the business.
• Deliver software using continuous delivery and leverage your experience to enhance delivery pipelines.
• You'll assist our skilled support team and operations team in triaging and resolving production issues.
• Continually build highly modular and reusable code using industry standards and best practices.
• You’ll mentor other engineers and be deeply involved in the code review process.
• You view on-call rotations as a normal part of your software engineering duties and are constantly looking for ways to improve operational stability and visibility.

The Right Stuff

• 4+ years of experience writing server-side APIs leveraging REST and GraphQL.
• 2+ years of experience with front-end technologies leveraging server side rendering (SSR).
• Experience building complex distributed systems, especially in cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented and backend programming with experience in TypeScript and/or JavaScript (C# is a nice to have).
• Experience leveraging TypeScript and/or JavaScript for frontend development with React, MobX, and component libraries.
• Skilled in a wide range of database systems, encompassing both relational and NoSQL, with a comprehensive grasp of their architectures and capabilities.
• Experience with public cloud services (AWS preferred).
• Experience with Scrum or other agile development methodologies and their use in the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• You operate  with an agile mindset that emphasizes delivering small, incremental improvements for our customers.
• Strong focus on engineering scalable and maintainable systems, with attention to code quality, secure code development, and performance.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership and drive the completion of key projects that impact organizational KPIs.
• Experience in a product-led organization.
• Strong understanding and experience with best-in-class continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices for both frontend and backend systems.
• You are expected to bring in deep architecture and design knowledge with experience in microservices and service oriented architecture.

The use of AI in Application Review: To support a fair, efficient, and consistent hiring process, we use AI-powered tools to assist in the initial screening of applications. These tools help us identify qualifications and prior work experiences that align with the requirements of the role. All AI-reviewed applications are still subject to human oversight and decision-making at multiple stages of the process. By submitting your application, you acknowledge and consent to it being reviewed using these AI technologies to assist in our evaluation process.

Base Compensation Range$145,000—$180,000 USD

Compensation & Benefits 

• Competitive cash compensation
• A piece of the pie (in the form of equity)
• Comprehensive health plans
• Generous PTO
• Future focused 401k match
• Generous parental and caregiver leave
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