Lead Software Engineer

If you're looking for an exciting, high profile opportunity, then you've come to the right place! We are looking for a talented and energetic Lead Software Engineer to be a key member of a team that uses technology to solve challenging business problems. You will develop complex business offerings using a test-and-learn methodology, continuously evaluate new technologies, and support our best-in-class claims processing applications. You will be an active contributor to the ongoing evolution of our platform to a microservices-based, distributed and event-driven architecture that supports transactions at internet scale. You will be working closely with software architects, product managers, business analysts, and collaborating with a team of onsite & remote engineers.Our Ideal candidate will be self-motivated, passionate, and always looking for new ways to improve themselves and their peers. Contribute to an engineering culture that promotes learning and development and rewards curiosity, risk-taking and innovation.Responsibilities:Design, Code, Test, Document and Release new application features that contribute to the hyper-growth of the business, while creating a great experience for our customers.Lead critical initiatives, mentor team members, and promote a quality-first mindset.Build resilient and highly-responsive cloud native and containerized applications that can scale horizontally and vertically.Release code when ready and manage deployment risk by leveraging patterns like canary deployments, feature toggles and circuit breakers to maximize application availability and responsiveness.Take a domain-driven approach in designing and implementing your SaaS APIs and reduce tight-coupling and dependencies by implementing an event-driven architecture.Full-stack ownership of applications through development and production, including managing your releases, performance testing of your APIs, implementing monitors and alerts and owning availability and production incident SLAs.Participate in an Agile environment using Scrum software development methodology.Continuously evaluate and do POCs on new technologies to improve team productivity and engagement.Participate in annual Technology Hackathon events to flex your creativity and engineering muscle.