Staff Software Engineer

Kin Insurance is a digital insurer focused on the home insurance market, aiming to provide smarter and faster services centered on customer needs. As a Staff Engineer, you will develop key products and features, mentor team members, and lead projects within a collaborative, agile environment.

Responsibilities:

• Writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code in Ruby on Rails and Typescript
• Setting the standards for the Engineering team by example
• Leading pair programming sessions and providing mentorship to team members
• Driving and fostering advanced design or architectural tasks
• Developing technical roadmaps
• Participating in daily stands and weekly retros
• Working with Design, Product Management, and Customer Support partners to design and implement scalable solutions
• Providing subject matter expertise and support

Requirements:

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 4+ years experience coding with Ruby on Rails and Typescript/Javascript
• Strong understanding of SQL and RDBMS, with exposure to NoSQL
• Experience in designing and implementing scalable, API-first systems
• Experience with event-driven architectures
• Experience in big data engineering on AWS and/or DataBricks is a plus
• Ability to articulate value of technical investments
• Ability to operate with little-to-no technical guidance
• Experience mentoring engineers
• Comfortable in a startup environment – we're fast-paced, self-motivated, and determined to change the industry
• A fast learner, ready to bring previous knowledge to this position and continue developing along the way
• Location in Central or Eastern US time zones (CDT & EDT) strongly preferred
• At this time, we are unable to sponsor employment visas