Senior Software Engineer I
Apply NowCompany: Zinnia
Location: Boulder, CO 80302
Description:
WHO WE ARE:
Zinnia is the leading technology platform for accelerating life and annuities growth. With innovative enterprise solutions and data insights, Zinnia simplifies the experience of buying, selling, and administering insurance products. All of which enables more people to protect their financial futures. Our success is driven by a commitment to three core values: be bold, team up, deliver value - and that we do. Zinnia has over $180 billion in assets under administration, serves 100+ carrier clients, 2500 distributors and partners, and over 2 million policyholders.
WHO YOU ARE:
As a Senior Software Engineer on Zinnia's Fund Management product you'll play a key role in the design, architecture, development/configuration, unit testing, installation, and ongoing maintenance of the software platforms. As the Sr Software Engineer you will partner with the Head of Engineering to work with stakeholders to develop solutions and additional product offerings that fulfill the needs of our fund management business clients. Sr Software Engineers interact directly with project leaders, business stakeholders, and Fund Management clients. You will facilitate, lead, and enable more your distributed team members by acting as a mentor for soft skills and technical subject matter expert. You will lead efforts to fix, modernize, and re-architect critical areas of the application with a focus on improving the customer onboarding experience and the extensibility of the product.
WHAT YOU'LL DO:
WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
BONUS POINTS:
WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?
Zinnia offers excellent career progression and competitive compensation. We offer great benefits, including health/dental insurance, parental leave, profit sharing, 401(k), incentive/bonus opportunity, tuition reimbursement, and so much more. The expected salary range for this position is $140,000 to $170,000, dependent on skills and location. The salary range is a good faith estimate based on what a successful candidate might be paid in certain Company locations. All offers presented to candidates are carefully reviewed to ensure fair, equitable pay by offering competitive salaries that align with the individual's skills, education, experience, training, and geographic location and may be above or below the stated amounts. We're looking for the best and brightest innovators in the industry to join our team. At Zinnia, you collaborate with smart, creative professionals who are dedicated to delivering cutting-edge technologies, deeper data insights, and enhanced services to transform how insurance is done. Visit our website at www.zinnia.com for more information. Apply by completing the online application on the careers section of our website. We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.
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Zinnia is the leading technology platform for accelerating life and annuities growth. With innovative enterprise solutions and data insights, Zinnia simplifies the experience of buying, selling, and administering insurance products. All of which enables more people to protect their financial futures. Our success is driven by a commitment to three core values: be bold, team up, deliver value - and that we do. Zinnia has over $180 billion in assets under administration, serves 100+ carrier clients, 2500 distributors and partners, and over 2 million policyholders.
WHO YOU ARE:
As a Senior Software Engineer on Zinnia's Fund Management product you'll play a key role in the design, architecture, development/configuration, unit testing, installation, and ongoing maintenance of the software platforms. As the Sr Software Engineer you will partner with the Head of Engineering to work with stakeholders to develop solutions and additional product offerings that fulfill the needs of our fund management business clients. Sr Software Engineers interact directly with project leaders, business stakeholders, and Fund Management clients. You will facilitate, lead, and enable more your distributed team members by acting as a mentor for soft skills and technical subject matter expert. You will lead efforts to fix, modernize, and re-architect critical areas of the application with a focus on improving the customer onboarding experience and the extensibility of the product.
WHAT YOU'LL DO:
- Work as part of a distributed, cross-functional team to develop innovative software for Zinnia's Fund Management product.
- Contribute to projects by creating well-designed, customized, testable, efficient code for Zinnia's Fund Management product.
- Lead the distributed technology team providing ongoing support, troubleshooting, re-architecture efforts, and developing new features for the Fund Management product.
- Occasionally participate in on-call rotations and/or provide after-hours support.
- Collaborate with our global teams, internal stakeholders and customers.
- Lead architectural discussions with your team and work directly with the distributed team to identify and execute tasks.
- Validate requirements and designs for custom built software projects.
WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
- 8+ years of software development experience.
- Undergraduate degree in technology, business, finance, accounting or equivalent relevant work experience.
- Experience developing and deploying in a cloud-native environment
- Working knowledge of common DevOps tasks (Environment provisioning, CI/CD Pipelines, and application monitoring).
- Experience with multiple Zinnia platforms. Mastery of one or more Zinnia platforms or similar industry experience.
- Expert level ability to develop software in C# .NET, Typescript, JavaScript, Node.js, or similar languages and frameworks.
- Comfortable developing in modern front-end frameworks as well as migrating legacy JavaScript and jQuery components.
- Expert integrating with relational databases.
- Expert level experience developing in a multitude of design paradigms (SOA, Distributed Systems, Microservice, Event Driven, etc.).
- Comfortable developing in a Microsoft Windows environment.
- Excellent work ethic. Ability to work and travel independently. Effective strategic thinking skills.
- Expert level communication, interpersonal, and critical thinking skills. Expert level troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to influence, lead, and work as part of a cross-functional, distributed team.
BONUS POINTS:
- Relevant industry certifications (examples: MCSD, CSSLP)
- Working knowledge of working in a fully containerized environment.
- Experience moving from Windows to Linux environments
- Expertise and experience working in the insurance industry.
WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?
Zinnia offers excellent career progression and competitive compensation. We offer great benefits, including health/dental insurance, parental leave, profit sharing, 401(k), incentive/bonus opportunity, tuition reimbursement, and so much more. The expected salary range for this position is $140,000 to $170,000, dependent on skills and location. The salary range is a good faith estimate based on what a successful candidate might be paid in certain Company locations. All offers presented to candidates are carefully reviewed to ensure fair, equitable pay by offering competitive salaries that align with the individual's skills, education, experience, training, and geographic location and may be above or below the stated amounts. We're looking for the best and brightest innovators in the industry to join our team. At Zinnia, you collaborate with smart, creative professionals who are dedicated to delivering cutting-edge technologies, deeper data insights, and enhanced services to transform how insurance is done. Visit our website at www.zinnia.com for more information. Apply by completing the online application on the careers section of our website. We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.
Notice for California residents: Information about how we collect and use your personal information can be found here
#LI-MW1