POSITION SUMMARY

Inspire’s Technology team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our consumer application team team, responsible for building backend services, API design and mobile and web experiences that focus on delivering customer value. Reporting to the Director of Product, you will be a key decision-maker in the technical approach, architecture and implement resilient, highly available systems. You will be an advocate, and a champion, for best practices across the organization and within the existing team, as well as partner closely with Product and Design to deliver features in a world-class consumer-facing application.

THE SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER HAS FIVE MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

1. You will be part of a small team, with a large amount of ownership and autonomy for managing parts of our consumer application.
2. Leverage 3rd party APIs to build core experiences around payment gateways, consumer and industry data as well as connecting into our internal APIs.
3. You will ship high quality, scalable and robust solutions with a sense of urgency.
4. You will have the freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives.
5. Be part of the Product team to collaborate early and often to deliver the right value / effort tradeoff.

SOME 2020 DELIVERABLES

• Deliver our initial consumer web and mobile experience applications.
• Continue to improve and scale the initial applications for national growth
• Build integrations for strategic utility providers
• Design and implement billing and payment capabilities

SUCCESS METRICS

• System uptime
• Performance and availability of services and systems within the team’s purview
• Growth and mentorship of the team

DESIRED TRAITS

• Takes Ownership: Feels deep ownership over tasks and systems, to ensure we build sustainable products
• Endlessly Curious: Always learning about new technologies, industry trends, etc. and applying them when applicable to technology stack and process.
• Shows Strong Leadership:  Drives technology platform forward, and can mentor and level-up others on the team to build a world-class APIs
• Works Collaboratively: Works well cross-functionally with Product, Design, Marketing, Data Science, BD, and others to ensure alignment

EXPERIENCE

• Must Have
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar, or equivalent education that provides a strong foundation in computer science (data structures, algorithms, compilers, processors, etc.) 
  • 5+ years of professional experience building building web apps, APIs, evented/queued systems, and other business related systems
  • Proven ability to lead cross functional teams both directly and indirectly
  • Strong understanding of HTTP, REST standards, backward compatibility, and other best practices for building consumer APIs 
  • Passionate about technology and interested in solving tough problems
  • Desire to provide technical mentorship to the core team
• Nice to Have
  • Experience implementing sophisticated systems using 3rd party vendor integrations & decoupled backend services
  • Experience with Ruby
  • Experience with Javascript (React and Node.JS)
  • Experience with web scraping technology, such as puppeteer
  • Experience with databases and ORMs specifically Postgres, Snowflake