Software Development Engineer - Hybrid

Position Summary

The Software Development Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining software solutions tailored to the company's insurance operations. The role collaborates with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements, architecting scalable and efficient software systems, and ensures the reliability and security of applications. They contribute to the full software development lifecycle, from requirement analysis to deployment and ongoing support. They stay updated on industry best practices, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes relevant to the insurance domain.

What will your job entail?

The employee will work a hybrid schedule of 2 days remote, 3 days onsite from either our Buffalo, NY, Indianapolis, IN, Kansas City, MO, or Chicago, IL office.

Join our dynamic and highly collaborative agile team, where you'll play a pivotal role in advancing The Connector, our premier InsurTech solution. Our platform enables clients to obtain quotes and issue policies within minutes, featuring automatic document creation, electronic signing, and efficient data collection.

You'll participate in code reviews, retrospectives, and pair programming, fostering continuous improvement, learning, and knowledge sharing. Our development practices emphasize true continuous integration with tight feedback loops, leveraging proven technologies such as TypeScript, React, Angular, NodeJS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and various cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable systems to solve novel problems with modern technology, such as serverless and event stream processing, and industry best practices such as branch by abstraction, safe testing in production, and continuous delivery.

• Own solutions from technical design to deployment by working closely with your team. Integrate feedback from observability tools into your team’s process to create more robust and stable solutions while also delivering software in small batches more quickly.

• Able to understand patterns of distributed software systems and effectively debug interactions between systems written in different languages and frameworks.

• Actively seek ways to improve software, processes, and interactions within your team, between other teams, and with business stakeholders.

• Make effective technical decisions by having a firm grasp of "bigger picture” strategy, business requirements, and vision. You will be actively involved in discussions outside the source code.

Work Experience:

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in Software or Application Development

• Experience working on large-scale software projects within an agile environment  

• Outstanding collaboration

  

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred; Software Engineering, Computer Science is preferred. Any other related discipline or commensurate work experience considered.

Salary:

• $100,000 - $120,000 annually based on experience and location

Ryan Specialty is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building and sustaining a diverse workforce throughout the organization. Our vision is an inclusive and equitable workplace where all employees are valued for and evaluated on their performance and contributions. Differences in race, creed, color, religious beliefs, physical or mental capabilities, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, and many other characteristics bring together varied perspectives and add value to the service we provide our clients, trading partners, and