Senior Software Engineer
Published on September 30, 2024
Insurance... sounds slow, old-fashioned, and unexciting. Exactly. Insurance is broken, and it's failing fast-moving, innovative startups.
Vouch is a new, technology-first insurance company backed with $160M in funding from world-class investors. Like Stripe for payments or Brex for credit cards, Vouch is creating the go-to business insurance for high-growth companies.
We're doing this by making insurance fast, responsive, and focused on our customers -high-growth and innovative companies. Instead of printed PDF applications and week-long waits, Vouch is building new technology to solve real problems, writing policies that actually cover relevant startup scenarios, and designing simple experiences in an otherwise frustrating industry.
About Vouch:
Insurance... sounds slow, old-fashioned, and unexciting. Exactly. Insurance is broken, and it's failing fast-moving, innovative startups.
Vouch is a new, technology-first insurance company backed with $185M in funding from world-class investors. Like Stripe for payments or Brex for credit cards, Vouch is creating the go-to business insurance for high-growth companies.
We're doing this by making insurance fast, responsive, and focused on our high-growth and innovative customers. Instead of printed PDF applications and week-long waits, Vouch is building new technology to solve real problems, writing policies that actually cover relevant startup scenarios, and designing simple experiences in an otherwise frustrating industry.
What does a work environment look like at Vouch?
Vouch has employees located across the U.S., with offices in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City. This role can be based anywhere in the U.S. as long as you can work our Vouch core collaboration hours (8:30 am-2:30 pm Pacific Time) when most internal meetings are held.
The Job:
Vouch is looking for a Full Stack Senior Software Engineer to join our Insurance Distribution team. The Insurance Distribution team is focused on building technology solutions to streamline the process of getting insurance through Vouch. These solutions drive our onboarding, application, quote, and coverage user flows. You will lead large projects, influence architectural choices across the organization, and mentor junior engineers.
You will:
- Lead the design and implementation of large-scale features within our products and solutions, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to deeply understand insurance workflows and develop scalable, flexible solutions.
- Work closely with engineering teams to maintain and enforce consistent engineering standards, best practices, and design patterns.
- Mentor and provide constructive feedback to team members through code reviews, technical specifications, and pair programming sessions
You may be a good fit for the role if you have:
- 6+ years of development experience
- Experience architecting and delivering high-quality, reusable systems and applications
- Experience writing production-level code as a full-stack engineer in TypeScript; Experience with Ruby is a plus
- Experience in Postgres or another transactional, relational database system, as well as the ability to design schemas
- Exceptional communication skills. You can effectively talk (and listen) to engineers, designers, product managers, executives, and other stakeholders
- Understanding of software engineering best practices and concepts such as testing practices, code reviews, feature flags, etc.
Tools & Technologies at Vouch:
- TypeScript, Prisma, NestJs, React, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails
- Jest, Vitest, Playwright, RSpec
- CircleCI, Nomad, Docker, LogRocket, Datadog, Rollbar, LaunchDarkly
- AWS (Lambda, SQS, ECS, etc), Kafka
- GitHub, Figma, Atlassian Stack (Jira, Confluence, OpsGenie)
Vouch provides several benefits to help you bring your best self to work:
- 💰 Competitive compensation and equity packages
- ⚕️ Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 👶 Parental leave
- 🌴 Flexible vacation time (Unlimited PTO)
- 🎨 🧠 Wellness allowance ($80/month)
- 📲 🛜 Technology allowance ($100/month)
- 📚 Professional Development ($500/Yr)
- 💻 🎧 Home office setup (One-time $500)
- 🏫 📈 L&D: Partnerships with Ethena, Hone, and weekly Lunch & Learns
- 🏳️🌈 ♀️ 🤝 Employee Groups (ERGs, Committees, and Communities): Vouch supports various employee groups to foster an inclusive, equitable workplace and create affirming, empowering, employee-centered spaces for conversation, community, and support. These groups include Pride @ Vouch, Women @ Vouch, Black @ Vouch, Virtual Connections, Pop Culture, Pets of Vouch, Skincare, Astrology, Plants, etc.
- 🧘 💲 Wellbeing: Voucher’s have access to many wellbeing perks, including Calm, ClassPass, Headspace, Fetch, OneMedical, Origin, SoFi, etc.
- 📊 Annual performance reviews with quarterly check-ins: Vouch conducts quarterly review discussions with all team members, offering goal setting and check-ins, development discussions, and promotion opportunities.
What to expect in the interview process:
- 30-minute phone call with our recruiting team
- 60 minute Zoom interview with the hiring manager
- Technical screen
- Meet the team! 60 min 1:1 Zoom meetings with 3 team members you’d work closely within the role
Salary Range:
The pay range for this role is: $175,000 to $190,000 per year.
Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry and are one part of our total compensation package that also includes benefits and other perks. We also include stock options in all compensation packages and believe all Vouch employees should have the opportunity to become owners in the company. Individual pay decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skill set, location, and business need. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
Vouch believes in putting our people first, and building a diverse team is at the front of everything we do. We welcome people from different backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and ranges of abilities. We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate the diversity of our growing team.
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to recruiting@vouch.us #LI-Remote