Staff Software Engineer (Platform, Reliability, Golang)

Job Overview
Applied Systems, Inc., a worldwide leader in insurance technology, is currently searching for a talented and passionate Staff Software Engineer (Platform, Reliability, Golang) to join our team. you will work across systems and software engineering to build, monitor/observe, and scale internal and external systems. You will monitor production issues and make suggestions for continuous improvement. You will play an integral role in designing and maintaining systems at scale. We leverage Agile Scrum methodologies to deliver software applications revolutionizing the business of insurance.
New developers on our team learn our development tools, standards, and processes to contribute within an Agile Scrum team. We deliver value for customers and our industry by maintaining and developing innovative solutions.
What You'll Do

• Work closely with a dynamic team to build web services, APIs, and integrations to enhance the platform
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering partners in system design, management, capacity planning, and continued improvement of all systems
• Monitoring the production issues
• Collaborate with Development teams on best practices, infrastructure setup, and planning activities with a focus on stability, performance, reliability, and scale
• Write clean, extensible code, and improve the architecture, frameworks, and toolkits used to build and maintain a stable technology stack
• Mentor engineering teams and evangelize reliability best practices
• Maintain and improve our CI/CD pipelines
• P articipate in incident response and blameless postmortems
• D esign and implement high-quality technical solutions to provide business value, utilizing object-oriented principles, design patterns, and testing practices
• C ollaborate with other developers to assist with the implementation of aspects you or your team develop
• D esign user-based interactions through effective front-end architecture
• D esign and implement RESTful services and APIs
• I ntegrate with 3 rd party APIs
• C ollaborate with team members by proactively sharing updates, identifying blockers, and obtaining feedback to continuously improve

What You'll Need to Succeed
We're looking for someone who:

• Can work 100% remotely, or from an Applied Systems office

Your experience should include some or all of the following:

• Experience with at least one of the following programming languages or similar: Golang (Go) or C# or Java
• Ability to problem solve, proven track record of problem-solving in a dynamic mission-critical environment
• Previous production support experience with an architectural background
• Experience with GCP, AWS, and/or other Cloud Services
• C I/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab CI/CD
• C ontainerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with Event-driven architectures and asynchronous software development
• E xperience with SQL database programming
• P roblem-solving skills with excellent logical reasoning and a solutions orientation
• P assion for programming in a team-oriented environment
• F amiliarity with Agile development methodologies
• E ducation in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • W e proudly support and encourage people with military experience, as well as military spouses, to apply

Additionally, you may have:

• Experience working with Apigee
• Database background (PostgreSQL)
• Open to Java and C# development experience
• Experience working with a mid-sized company that is scaling or a start-up that has scaled

What You'll Gain
Benefits from Day One

• Health insurance plans, dental, and vision
• Wellness incentives
• 401(k) and/or RRSP retirement savings plans with employer match

Work-Life Balance

• Competitive paid vacation time and a free day for your birthday
• Personal/sick time
• Paid holidays
• Flex Time
• Paid parental leave (U.S. candidates)
• Volunteer time off

Empowering Career Growth and Success - We invest in talent, care about our people and are empowered by the results of our work. We grow our teams from within and give our employees opportunities to advance.
What We Value
We strive for excellence at every turn to be the best at what we do. We invest in talent, care about our people and are empowered by the results of our work. We fulfil the promise of insurance - safeguarding and protecting what matters most in people's lives. And there is no more important job than that.
Our focus on the workforce, workplace and marketplace gives us a qualified individual in an environment in which they can be productive while we maintain our position in the industry. To help drive that change toward a vibrant, modern workplace, we have employee-driven networks with commonalities in ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and military status.
Who We Are
Applied Systems is the leading global provider of cloud-based software that powers the business of insurance. Recognized as a pioneer in insurance automation and the innovation leader, Applied is the world's largest agency and brokerage management systems provider, serving customers throughout the United States, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, and the United Kingdom. By automating the insurance lifecycle, Applied's people and products enable millions of people worldwide to safeguard and protect what matters most.
For 40 years, Applied Systems has led an industry we helped to create with a mission to continuously improve the business of insurance. From partnerships, acquisitions, and insurance innovation initiatives, Applied has focused on efforts to be an indispensable partner in our industry.
It's an exciting time at Applied. You can do big things here, in an environment that supports creative thinking and bold ideas. Visit http://www.AppliedSystems.com for more information on how you can challenge what's possible.
EEO Statement
Applied Systems is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Diversity and Inclusion is a business imperative and is a part of building our brand and reputation. At Applied, we don't discriminate, and we are committed to recruit, develop, retain, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.
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