Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bold Penguin is the premier digital broker for commercial insurance. Their technology expands top-of-funnel demand and increases yield for enterprise partners, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and launch products that improve the commercial insurance industry.
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and integrate APIs to facilitate quoting and binding insurance policies for small business owners
- Write clean, well-tested code
- Participate in agile ceremonies such as iteration planning, retrospectives, and standups
- Work with product managers, designers, site-reliability engineers, backend engineers, and customers to build powerful, impactful products
- Participate in the full lifecycle of the software development life cycle from ideation to delivery
- Build internal component libraries that will be used across products to ensure an uncommonly great user experience
- Learn from and mentor other engineers in areas such as unit testing, continuous integration, DRY/SOLID principles, and SDLC
- Proactively research possible issues affecting the availability of our platform
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned
Skills
- 5+ years of professional experience building modern web applications in Ruby on Rails
- Knowledge of commercial insurance concepts such as carriers, brokers, agents, etc. is very desirable
- Previous work experience in insurance and/or experience with policy rating is very desirable
- Deep working knowledge of continuous integration, continuous testing, and continuous deployment
- Being a passionate, delivery-focused member of the team
- Knowledge of microservice architectures and RESTful APIs
- Progressional experience with Ruby on Rails
- Understanding of scrum, unit testing, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps a plus
- Write clean, well-tested, and secure code, applying DRY/SOLID principles to both traditional Rails features and non-deterministic AI/LLM outputs
- Build internal component libraries that ensure a great user experience, adapting design systems to handle dynamic, AI-generated insights and agentic workflows
- Experience building with orchestration frameworks, RAG pipelines, or autonomous agents, with a solid grasp of handling vector databases and non-deterministic outputs
- Strong working knowledge of microservice architecture, secure RESTful APIs, and cloud infrastructure, ensuring traditional code and AI features play nice together
- Must be able to sit/stand/walk for prolonged periods of time, (up to 8 hours per day) at a desk working on a computer
- Must be able to use standard office equipment for extended periods of time, including but not limited to, a mouse, keyboard, phone and video conferencing
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Flexible PTO Policy
- 401(k) with a company match
- Employee Assistance Program
- Parental Leave
- Disability and Life Benefits
- We have great SLACK channels for work and play.
- We also like to video conference and hold all-hands "Waddles" regularly.
- Like swag themed after a certain Antarctic bird? Just. You. Wait.
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