About Vouch:

Insurance... sounds slow, old-fashioned, and unexciting. Exactly. Insurance is broken, and it's failing fast-moving, innovative startups.

Vouch is a new, technology-first insurance company backed with $160M in funding from world-class investors. Like Stripe for payments or Brex for credit cards, Vouch is creating the go-to business insurance for high-growth companies.

We're doing this by making insurance fast, responsive, and focused on our customers -high growth and innovative companies. Instead of printed PDF applications and week-long waits, Vouch is building new technology to solve real problems, writing policies that actually cover relevant startup scenarios, and designing simple experiences in an otherwise frustrating industry.

What does a work environment look like at Vouch?

Vouch is a Virtual First Workplace with office locations in SF, Chicago, and NYC . This role can be based anywhere in the U.S as long as you can work our Vouch core collaboration hours (8:30 am-2:30 pm Pacific Time.)

The Job:

Vouch is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our Insurance Platform team. Insurance Platform builds APIs that underwrite, issue, and manage insurance policies. Also under Platform, Vouch's custom insurance policies are developed and launched on an in-house underwriting and pricing engine, enabling us to launch new insurance products and features in days, not months. You will have the opportunity to lead large projects, influence architectural choices across the organization, and mentor junior engineers.

You will:

Provide technical leadership
Design, build, and maintain OpenAPI-based APIs, with microservice architecture
Work on the core infrastructure for our Insurance platform, which enables the launching and managing of insurance programs
Work closely with internal Vouch stakeholders to understand insurance workflows and create flexible solutions
Set technical direction for the team and support the team in delivering ambitious goals
Work closely with other technical leads to ensure consistent engineering standards and patterns

You may be a good fit for the role if you:

Have 7+ years of development experience and 1+ years leading large scale projects
Have experience building distributed systems and APIs as a product or platform
Are proficient using Node, TypeScript, or Ruby
Have experience in Postgres or another transactional, relational database system, as well as ability to design schemas
Have exceptional communication skills. You can effectively talk (and listen) to engineers, designers, product managers, executives, and other stakeholders.
Have experience with software engineering best practices such as TDD, SOLID, code reviews, A/B testing, etc.
Have experience with a variety of architectural patterns

Tools & Technologies

TypeScript, TypeORM, NestJS, Ruby on Rails
Terraform, Consul, Nomad
Serverless Framework, Docker
AWS EventBridge, SNS, SQS, Lambda, AWS API Gateway

Vouch provides a number of benefits to help you bring your best self to work:

Competitive compensation and equity packages
Health, dental, and vision insurance
Parental leave
Flexible vacation time (Unlimited PTO)
Wellness allowance ($80/month)
Technology allowance ($100/month)
Monthly Doordash credits ($80/month)

Vouch believes in putting our people first and building a diverse team is at the front of everything that we do. We welcome people from different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and celebrate the diversity of our growing team.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to recruiting@vouch.us. #LI-Remote

Summary
Company name: Vouch
Remote job title: Lead Software Engineer, Insurance Platform