Senior Software Engineer

Looking for a company that embraces new technology? Are you interested in Elixir, the Erlang VM, or Elm? Would you like to be an early part of a company with lots of growth potential? Corvus Insurance seeks a talented Senior Software Engineer to join our early stage technology team. We are a dynamic team of entrepreneurial professionals with backgrounds in insurance and technology creating a commercial insurance company that combines the latest technology with traditional insurance. You will be instrumental in building robust and scalable software systems for our users.

• You will design and develop software systems that delight our end users (insurance brokers, insurance buyers, and Corvus staff)

• You will help build maintainable, scalable systems and that are thoroughly tested

• You will mentor less-experienced engineers, review code, and teach the engineering group better practices

• You will interact with customers on a regular basis, trying to understand their problems

• You will work with our support team to diagnose production issues and fix them as quickly as possible

• You will be an active, creative, agile team member that pushes new features and code every iteration

• 5+ years of experience developing and deploying advanced web based applications and services into staging and production environments

• You understand when it’s better to write a comment vs. self-documenting code

• You are proficient at debugging production issues

• You can effectively teach other engineers new techniques

• You find defects and architectural problems when reviewing code

• You can write systems that will scale beyond today’s expected usage

• You’re comfortable working at a startup which moves fast with tight deadlines

• You collaborate well with others and are dedicated to the company’s success