Key skills
PythonDjangoFastAPIGraphQLReactJSJavaScriptHTMLCSSRelational databasesNoSQL databasesLinux/Unix command lineMicroservice architecturesWeb API designAWSLLMsData sets for ML/AI applicationsJavaC#C++CGoRubyNoSQLAIMLReactLeadershipA/B TestingCollaboration
About this role
The Zebra is a company focused on simplifying the insurance shopping experience for customers through innovative technology. They are seeking a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to join their Applied AI team, where the engineer will design, implement, and maintain products while collaborating with other teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Assist in the design, implementation, and maintenance of The Zebra comparison product and other products using Python, Django, FastAPI, GraphQL, ReactJS, and other modern technologies
- Deliver focused, maintainable, and performant code across different areas of our business, from adding new functionality to existing cloud-hosted microservices to creating new features supporting growth into new insurance lines
- Work closely with other engineers, designers, and engineering leadership to rapidly build, iterate, test, and deploy new features and products and maintain a high-quality robust codebase
- Improve and scale the existing products and tools to support our growth
- Act as a technical leader for the team and grow other engineers through example and mentorship
Requirements:
- 5+ years of professional programming experience
- Demonstrated ability to work in HTML/CSS and Javascript, particularly with React applications
- Strong understanding of and experience with one of the following: Python, Ruby, Java, C++, C#, or Go (Python being the preferred language of choice)
- Strong experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases
- Comfort with Linux/Unix command line
- Exceptional and proven web development experience
- Eager to take ownership of work, including collaboration with collaborators and developers through the product development lifecycle
- Track record of delivering quality code in a timely fashion, understanding where to draw the line between good and flawless
- Experience working in consumer-facing web products, growth-phase startups and/or using A/B testing and data to drive product decisions
- Experience with Django, AWS, react, microservice architectures and web API design
- Experience with using AI tools for development
- Experience developing software that leverages LLMs and developing data sets for ML/AI applications