WHO WE ARE:
Zinnia is the leading technology platform for accelerating life and annuities growth. With innovative enterprise solutions and data insights, Zinnia simplifies the experience of buying, selling, and administering insurance products. All of which enables more people to protect their financial futures. Our success is driven by a commitment to three core values: be bold, team up, deliver value – and that we do. Zinnia has over $180 billion in assets under administration, serves 100+ carrier clients, 2500 distributors and partners, and over 2 million policyholders.
WHO YOU ARE:
Senior Software engineer plays a key role in the design, development/configuration, unit testing, installation, and ongoing maintenance of Zinnia software platforms. Works with stakeholders to develop solutions and/or products that fulfill the needs of Zinnia’s internal stakeholders and clients. Those solutions and/or products help Zinnia and Zinnia clients to be more efficient and provide better service to end customers. Technical Architect interacts directly with project managers and business stakeholders and may periodically interact directly with Zinnia’s clients. Will facilitate, Architect, and enable junior team members by acting as a mentor for soft skills and/or technical subject matter experts.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
- Work as part of a global, cross-functional team to develop innovative software for Zinnia’s stakeholders.
- Contribute to projects by creating well-designed, customized, testable, and efficient code for Life & Annuity Exchange
- Assist our teams in providing ongoing support, troubleshooting, improvements, or custom enhancements to existing Life & Annuity Exchange
- Flexibility to support the challenging development and delivery needs of Zinnia
- Collaborate with our global teams, internal stakeholders, and customers.
- Act as a mentor and technology expert for team members and conduct technical reviews.
- Architect, Design, develop and validate various requirements for the Zinnia platforms
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, recognize and react to changing business needs and effectively prioritize tasks
- Must be self-motivated and able to work independently and in conjunction with team members and business units. Enthusiasm and flexibility to work on a variety of projects
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:
- 10+ years of expertise across the full Microsoft .NET ecosystem — owning technical direction from architecture design through production, setting standards, mentoring engineers, and driving SDLC maturity within Agile/Scrum organizations; deep expertise in C#, ASP.NET Core, and enterprise design patterns
- Architecting, designing, developing, and delivering solutions using C#/.NET, ASP.NET Core, MVC, Web API, Visual Studio IDE, SSRS, SOAP, XML, GitHub; leads API design strategy at scale — defining standards for security (OAuth2, JWT), versioning, documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger), and performance across distributed microservices environments
- Understanding of advanced design patterns, API-first design, and SOLID principles
- Effective communication, interpersonal, and critical thinking skills.
- Effective troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to work as part of a cross-functional, global team.
- Fluent client communication, Issue management, deployment, and delivery support;
- Hands-on experience designing and deploying cloud solutions on AWS — working across compute, storage, and serverless services with a focus on scalability and cost efficiency; contributes to cloud best practices and supports team adoption
- Team coordination, analytical skill, self-learning, Communication, Technical documentation, system analysis
- Contributes to RESTful API design strategy at scale, helping define standards for security (OAuth2, JWT), versioning, documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger), and performance. Supports the design of integration layers between systems and promotes API governance across distributed teams and microservices environments
- Exposure to AI integration, including LLM APIs, prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, and AI-powered feature development, with a willingness to apply emerging AI capabilities to real-world product use cases
Good to have:
- Working experience on enterprise-level applications/products
- Working experience in React/Angular
- Insurance/financial services (Life and Annuity) industry knowledge
- Experience with Web-based software as a service (SaaS) application
- Knowledge of Redis Cache for in-memory data structure storage and caching
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
At Zinnia, you collaborate with smart, creative professionals who are dedicated to delivering cutting-edge technologies, deeper data insights, and enhanced services to transform how insurance is done. Visit our website at www.zinnia.com for more information. Apply by completing the online application on the careers section of our website. We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability
Skills Required
- 10-14 years of expertise in Microsoft .NET technologies with end-to-end project life cycle experience using Agile methodologies
- Architecting, designing, developing, and delivering using C#/.Net, ASP.Net, MVC, .NET Web API, Microservices
- Experience using Visual Studio IDE and GitHub for development and source control
- Experience with SSRS, SOAP, and XML
- Understanding of advanced design patterns, API-first design, and SOLID principles
- Effective communication, interpersonal, and critical thinking skills; fluent client communication
- Ability to work as part of a cross-functional, global team and mentor junior team members
- Issue management, deployment, and delivery support experience
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS)
- Team coordination, analytical skills, self-learning, technical documentation, and system analysis
- Working experience on enterprise-level applications/products
- Working experience in React and TypeScript
- Insurance/financial services (Life and Annuity) industry knowledge
- Experience with Web-based software as a service (SaaS) application
Zinnia (zinnia.com) Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Zinnia (zinnia.com) and has not been reviewed or approved by Zinnia (zinnia.com).
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible or 'unlimited' PTO is described for many salaried roles, with additional volunteer time, holidays, and wellness days noted. Feedback suggests time off is broadly seen as a solid component of the package.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is explicitly included in role descriptions, and anecdotes cite substantial leave durations. Feedback suggests family leave is a meaningful part of total rewards in the U.S. footprint.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) is standard with indications of company matching and, in some cases, profit sharing alongside bonus eligibility. Feedback suggests retirement programs contribute materially to overall compensation.
Zinnia (zinnia.com) Insights
What We Do
Zinnia is Where Complexity Ends and Simplicity Begins. By merging decades of industry expertise with advanced technology, Zinnia seeks to transform the life and annuity experience from end-to-end. We will empower our clients to innovate and launch products faster, to buy, sell, manage, and service products more effectively, and to better serve their customers.
