WHO YOU ARE:
Zinnia is simplifying how people buy, sell, and administer insurance products. Combining intuitive enterprise technology solutions and data insights with the streamlined, consumer-facing Policygenius marketplace, Zinnia is redesigning the insurance experience for shoppers, advisors, and insurers alike — and enabling more people to protect their financial futures along the way. Zinnia has over $173.7 billion in assets under administration across 60+ carrier clients, 350 distributors and partners, and over 2 million policyholders.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
- Work as part of a global, cross-functional team to develop innovative software for ZINNIA stakeholders.
- Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth
- Develop new features and infrastructure development in support of rapidly emerging business and project requirements
- Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful application design
- Work with agile development methodologies, adhering to best practices and pursuing continued learning opportunities
- Design Solutions to meet ZINNIA platform requirements
- Engage with ZINNIA stakeholders (i.e., Architect, Engineering Lead, Product Team, Partners, and clients) through workshops and discussions to collaborate on new or existing solutions
- Contribute to projects by creating well-designed, configurable, testable, efficient code for ZINNIA platforms.
- Validate requirements and designs for custom built software projects.
- Work across teams to define, drive, and facilitate the creation and adoption of platform architecture and standards.
- Work primarily in DAML, Java/JRuby, React, and JavaScript
- Engage with inspiring designers and front-end engineers, and collaborate with leading back-end engineers as we create reliable APIs
- Collaborate across time zones via MS Teams, GitHub comments, documents, and frequent video conferences
- Assist our teams in providing ongoing support, troubleshooting, improvements, or custom enhancements to existing ZINNIA platforms.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:
- 5-8 years of software development experience in designing full stack development
- Graduate degree in technology, business, finance, and accounting.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or engineering
- Experience building web applications
- Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs
- Knowledge of DAML/ Haskell programming language or any functional programming, Java/JRuby, React, and JavaScript
- Excellent debugging and optimization skills
- Unit/integration testing experience
- Expert level ability to effectively prototype and develop software in C#, VB.net, Java, or similar languages.
- Expert level experience with software engineering tools (Visual Studio, Eclipse, etc.) and methodologies (Kanban, Scrum, etc).
- Excellent work ethic. Ability to work and travel independently. Advanced 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, global team.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
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.
