Senior Software Engineer

About Specialty Program Group:

Our goal is to partner with industry-leading specialty businesses to provide them with the ability to achieve their goals and optimize their businesses. Specialty Program Group offers access to capital and investment, deep carrier relationships, creative thinking, product development and broad distribution, while allowing our businesses to maintain the essence of what makes them successful. Specialty Program Group delivers leading-edge specialty expertise backed by transformative digital capabilities and sophisticated data and analytics.

About SquareMouth:

SquareMouth was launched in 2003 with the core goals of becoming the best workplace for its employees and the best place for customers to buy travel insurance. In 2014, we utilized our travel insurance expertise to develop and launch Tin Leg, a travel insurance brand with policies designed to address our customer’s most common and pressing travel concerns. Tin Leg quickly became one of the most popular travel insurance providers on squaremouth.com and continues to offer some of the most comprehensive products in the travel insurance market.

We’ve grown from a small team to a company of over 50 employees, gaining national and international recognition along the way as one of the best customer service teams and best places to work.  Widely recognized for our company culture, we are proud of most recently being named one of the Best Workplaces in America in 2023 by Inc. Magazine!

Continuing to strive toward our goal of being one of the most innovative companies in the field, SquareMouth was acquired in April 2023 by Specialty Program Group (SPG), a leading operator of specialty insurance brokerages and underwriting facilities. Today, Squaremouth.com, and its multi-award winning customer service team, has helped over 3 million travelers save time and money to find the best travel insurance policy for their trip.

About the Role:

SquareMouth is looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Software Engineer who wants to help plan and build the next generation of our infrastructure. You will use the latest web standards in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Ruby on Rails to build web applications to work across all devices. We are looking for a team player who can work in a highly collaborative environment. They will teach themselves, learn from others, and take ownership of their successes and challenges. The ideal candidate should have an intrinsic desire for personal growth and professional success.

Every person spends time troubleshooting bugs, reviewing other peoples’ code, supporting customer service while on-call, and deploying updates to production. This allows all of our developers the opportunity to understand our entire system from beginning to end. The SquareMouth team promotes a collaborative environment using industry best practices, such as weekly iteration planning meetings, Continuous Integration, code reviews, and Continuous Deployment. Peer critiques and constructive criticism allow the development team to grow and learn at a fast pace.

What you will do:

• Write Ruby, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS to add new functionality to our application

• Work on complicated performance problems to improve our current systems

• Help architect UX and UI components to modernize existing interfaces

• Explore new languages, frameworks, and other technologies to improve user experience

• Use automated testing with continuous integration to validate the functionality of the code you write

• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to other members of the team

• Mentor our other developers on development best practices

• Autonomously lead and design larger projects to improve our website and administrative backend

Experience and skills that are important for success in this position:

• At least 6 years of hands-on development experience in web application development

• Ability to work independently, arranging your work to meet deadlines

• Passion for growing your skills, tackling interesting work, and challenging problems

• Energetic, positive attitude

• Ability to work within a team, collaborate on projects, and share responsibility

It would be great if you had experience with:

• BS or MS in Computer Science or related field

• Building large, performant web applications using Ruby on Rails

• Creating REST or GraphQL API endpoints

• Building and maintaining a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) or microservices

• Machine learning or other AI related technologies

• Docker and other related tools such as docker-compose,