Software Engineer

Insurance is a trillion dollar market that is fundamental to society, yet it has not modernized — until now. 

Newfront is building the modern insurance experience. 

We've reimagined the experience for clients, prospects, and employees, altering the way people create, understand, select, transact, and use insurance. We're changing the approach so that it starts and ends with the client, not the product, and empowering people for moments that matter. 

Our unique approach recognizes both the vast potential of technology and the fundamental role of insurance experts. We're a technology-driven company with DE&I in our DNA and strong values; we believe people matter most. 

Our mission is to define the future of the insurance industry, while instilling a high performance culture in combination with living our Work, Love, Play ethos each day. We value balanced lives and are passionate about creating a culture of wellness that results in healthier, happier, and more productive employees, and more successful clients.

The Platform and Infrastructure team is the core engineering organization sitting at the center of all engineering teams of Newfront. Its mission is to build a world class platform to serve shared engineering abstractions across different teams and empower other engineers at Newfront to build better. It is a high-impact org and owns multiple domains at Newfront.

• Cloud Infrastructure on AWS (EKS, RDS, SNS, SQS, Lambda, S3, etc).
• CI/CD pipelines.
• Logging, alerting, monitoring, and on-call management tools.
• Developer efficiency tools.
• Authentication and authorization systems.
• Shared services such as notifications and search.
• Emerging AI / LLM infrastructure to supercharge engineers to build AI / LLM based applications

• Maintain, optimize and scale cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters, for performance and cost-effectiveness.
• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines to ensure efficient and reliable software delivery.
• Enhance monitoring and alerting practices to proactively identify and resolve infrastructure issues.
• Improve developer efficiency by automating processes and tasks using scripts and infrastructure as code tools.
• Implement and improve shared services common abstractions, such as authentication, authorization, search, and notification services, to enhance security, developer productivity and user experience.
• Implement and improve AI/LLM infrastructure to support AI/LLM applications.
• Participate in operations to ensure smooth running of applications and systems at Newfront.

• Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Professional experience as a software engineer or software engineer intern.
• Experience in automating processes with scripts.
• Ability to effectively communicate with non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to take a thoughtful, pragmatic, and efficient approach to problem-solving.

• Curiosity and a desire for continuous learning and growth.
• Quick learner with a growth mindset.
• Proven ability as a "hardcore builder" with a passion for creating solutions from prior work, internship, or hackathon experience.
• Ability to deliver and meet deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a commitment to improving the developer experience.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and tools like Terraform.
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
• Experience with ElasticSearch or OpenSearch.
• Experience with JWT token.
• Experience with cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and familiarity with tools like CircleCI, or GitHub Actions.
• Experience with implementing authentication and authorization systems.
• Experience with logging and monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
• Awareness of security best practices for cloud infrastructure and applications.

• Comprehensive Healthcare, Benefits, and resources that start your first day of employment!
• Have a stake in the growing company with Restricted Stock Units
• Flexible Time Away, for exempt employees, and generous Paid Time Off program, for non-exempt employees, that grows in tandem with tenure at the company.
• Matching 401K (Vested from day one)
• 12 paid company holidays
• Rewarding Wellness program
• Network of passionate, highly educated and dedicated team members
• Training and Development
• Flexible and Diverse Work Environment
• Clubs and Committees that encourage engagement with more colleagues
• Employee Discount Program

The pay range for this position in California, Washington, Colorado and New York at the commencement of employment is expected to be between $126,400 to $158,000/yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, the employee will be in an “at-will position,” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

At Newfront, we are committed to hiring diverse talent and supporting an inclusive workplace environment. If you are excited about a role at Newfront but feel you’re missing a few of the qualifications, we still encourage you to apply and tell us about yourself. You may just be the next Newfront team member that we are looking for! 

Newfront is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Diversity is in our DNA and we believe that creating an inclusive workplace elevates the value we are able to bring to our customers and employees alike. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other applicable status protected by state or local law.

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