Lead Software Engineer

SquareTrade is the fastest growing company of its kind. We’re revolutionizing a $30b industry with service innovation and attention to customer satisfaction. We partner with some of the largest, most sophisticated retailers and carriers in the world (Amazon, Walmart, The Home Depot to name a few), consistently win industry awards, have received tens of thousands of 5-star reviews… and we’re just getting started. A member of the Allstate family, SquareTrade has headquarters in San Francisco and London. We are currently expanding in Europe and Asia Pacific, including Japan and Australia.

If you're looking for an exciting, high profile opportunity, then you've come to the right place! We are looking for a talented and energetic Lead Software Engineer to be a key member of a team that uses technology to solve challenging business problems. You will develop complex business offerings using a test-and-learn methodology, continuously evaluate new technologies, and support our best-in-class claims processing applications. You will be an active contributor to the ongoing evolution of our platform to a microservices-based, distributed and event-driven architecture that supports transactions at internet scale. You will be working closely with software architects, product managers, business analysts, and collaborating with a team of onsite & remote engineers.

Our Ideal candidate will be self-motivated, passionate, and always looking for new ways to improve themselves and their peers. Contribute to an engineering culture that promotes learning and development and rewards curiosity, risk-taking and innovation.

Responsibilities:

• Design, Code, Test, Document and Release new application features that contribute to the hyper-growth of the business, while creating a great experience for our customers.
• Lead critical initiatives, mentor team members, and promote a quality-first mindset.
• Build resilient and highly-responsive cloud native and containerized applications that can scale horizontally and vertically.
• Release code when ready and manage deployment risk by leveraging patterns like canary deployments, feature toggles and circuit breakers to maximize application availability and responsiveness.
• Take a domain-driven approach in designing and implementing your SaaS APIs and reduce tight-coupling and dependencies by implementing an event-driven architecture.
• Full-stack ownership of applications through development and production, including managing your releases, performance testing of your APIs, implementing monitors and alerts and owning availability and production incident SLAs.
• Participate in an Agile environment using Scrum software development methodology.
• Continuously evaluate and do POCs on new technologies to improve team productivity and engagement.
• Participate in annual Technology Hackathon events to flex your creativity and engineering muscle.

• 7+ years of software development experience
• Demonstrate technical leadership skills with extensive experience in application architecture and design to support web scale transactions
• Strong development skills in Java
• Excellent verbal and written skills
• Experience authoring high performance, production quality code
• Ability to multitask and handle multiple complex tasks at the same time
• Extensive knowledge of RESTful APIs design and Spring/Spring Boot 2.0 framework
• Experience with relational databases like MySQL or Postgres, and event streaming systems such as Kafka
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum
• BA/MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience

At SquareTrade you'll have access to: 

• Medical, dental and vision coverage with network optionality to support our dispersed workforce
• HSAs and FSAs
• Open access to mental health benefits including 1:1 therapy, coaching sessions and digital resources
• $75 monthly allowance to support self-care and well-being
• Up to 4% company match into 401(k)
• Supportive leave policies including paid parental, grieving and loss, and domestic violence protected leaves
• Paid Time Off 
• Work flexibility
• Talent shares
• Tuition reimbursement
• Learning opportunities
• Hybrid work arrangements
• $80 monthly internet connectivity stipend
• Various corporate perks and discounts

(Colorado Only) Pursuant to applicable law, SquareTrade estimates the possible base compensation for this role, if hired in Colorado, to be within the following range: 140K - 180K

The Team:  http://www.squaretrade.com/leadership   

SquareTrade is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive work environment for all employees. We celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or ability status.  

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