Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Hampton North is partnering with a well-established insurance and financial services group to hire a Senior Software Engineer. The role focuses on building and maintaining backend services, APIs, and event-driven systems for a cloud-native annuity platform while collaborating with product teams, business stakeholders, and leadership.
Responsibilities
- Joining a self-sufficient, full-stack product team with its own frontend, backend, data, product, design and scrum support
- Designing and building backend services, APIs and event-driven systems using Kotlin, GraphQL/REST, PostgreSQL and Kafka
- Owning key parts of the annuity platform across areas such as policy lifecycle, workflow and case management, or agent commissions
- Contributing across the stack where needed, including Angular on the frontend
- Collaborating daily with business stakeholders and leadership in a fast-moving, senior-heavy team
Skills
- Senior-level software engineering experience with a track record of building scalable, maintainable backend systems
- Strong expertise in Kotlin, or another object-oriented language such as Java, C# or Scala
- Experience with GraphQL and REST APIs, PostgreSQL, and Kafka
- Experience in both fast-paced startup-style and larger enterprise environments
- Adaptability: you learn how things work before pushing change
- Excellent communication skills, which are essential for this role
- Authorization to work in the US without current or future sponsorship (no third-party agencies or 1099)
- Angular and Snowflake experience is a plus
- Fintech, insurtech or financial services experience strongly preferred
Benefits
- Remote (US) work arrangement
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