Staff Engineer
Simply Business is more than our name. It's how we approach insurance: Make it clear. Make it simple. Make it affordable. By combining exceptional talent, technology, data, and knowledge, Simply Business is the go-to online insurance brokerage that protects small businesses and the entrepreneurs who work hard to build them.
We want team members who have the drive to challenge boundaries. If you’re smart and passionate about delivering brilliant customer experiences, we’d love to hear from you.
We are looking for a Staff engineer to join our Boston, MA office.
In collaboration with the Architecture Owner , Engineering lead and your Product Engineering Team , you'll help deliver complex projects successfully under your technical leadership. We are looking for someone who has the ability to lead technical delivery of complex work , own and drive software engineering best practices and contribute meaningfully towards the overall long term technical vision of Simply Business Engineering.
Responsibilities include:
- Being hands on in developing our products using best practices, appropriate tools, and technologies.
- Working with other teams to resolve difficult technical implications that affect their projects.
- Providing mentoring and coaching to engineers in the team.
- Championing Agile methodologies whilst creating amazingly useful systems in a collaborative way for our customers
- Highlighting areas for continuous improvement and driving their prioritization
- Being proactive in suggesting new tools, technologies and ways of working
What are we looking for:
- Professional experience writing applications and services in any language and a willingness to get up to speed with our tech stack (Ruby/Rails , React, Javascript , HAML).
- Experience with distributed services and event streaming (We use Kafka).
- Knowledge of best practices & patterns for designing applications.
- Experience working with 3rd parties when designing software solutions involving 3rd party data and integrations.
- Experience with monitoring and observability.
- Familiarity with at least 2 programming paradigms and can mentor others in their use.
- Ability to break down complex technical requirements (epics) into smaller stories to avoid large monolithic deliverables.
- Ability to define a technical vision which you can share and get other tech team members to contribute to.
- Willingness to challenge us! We love people who come in and challenge us and not be afraid to raise questions and help us improve
- An advocate of engineering best practices
A handful of things we believe in:
- Continuous delivery - we currently release software to production around 14 times a day on average
- Cross functional teams – we believe in collaboration across the whole organisation and we see Tech and Business teams as one team working together on projects (in fact, we even have our business product owners writing code).
- Continuous innovation - we do fortnightly hackathons as one example to drive experimentation with new technologies and ways of working
- Never chaining ourselves to a technology - using the ‘right tool for the job'
Check out our new tech website: www.tech.sb
What are the benefits?
Here are some of the great benefits and perks that come from being a Simply Business employee:
• A salary that reflects your experience, our pay policy, and the market we’re in from your first day
• Group plan for medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
• Short term disability, long term disability, and life insurance coverage
• Participation in the Company’s bonus program
• Participation in 401(k) plan with a 3% employer match
• Commuter benefits to help cut down on parking and public transit costs
• 25 days of vacation time plus 10 sick days and 10 company holidays
• A genuine investment in your learning and development
• Annual company trip, regular outings, and volunteer opportunities
• An awesome WeWork office with cold brew coffee and other beverages on tap, local pop-up events, and more
Simply Business is an equal opportunity employer. We're committed to welcoming and helping to grow employees within an inclusive & diverse culture. And that commitment starts with our interview process.
Once you apply, your info will be reviewed in a committee with employees from different levels, teams, and experiences. We pride ourselves on fostering a sense of community, which is only made stronger by each individual at SB, so you'll have the opportunity to meet a variety of people throughout the process. Get excited!
Want more info on working at Simply Business? Check out our careers page: https://www.simplybusiness.com/careers/
What's going on with work from home and return to the office?
More and more, people are talking about going back to the workplace and the new normal. At Simply Business, we’re thinking of it as a Better Normal. That means offering our SBers more choice and greater flexibility to work in a way that’s best for their particular job, their teams, and their lives.
We’re shifting to a hybrid working model, so we’ll have employees working virtually and in the office at any given time.
We’re also aware there are times when working together in person is the best way to get things done. We expect our SBers to connect in their hubs (that’s what we call our offices) most likely once every few weeks. That said, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution, so we expect all SBers and their teams will find the operating rhythm that works best for them.
If you’re wondering what it might be like for you at Simply Business, our Talent Acquisition is happy to answer any questions. In fact for them, it’s perfectly normal.
Most of our interviews will still take place over Zoom (however, depending on the role, there may be the opportunity/expectation to meet members of the team in-person). If it looks like you could be a good fit for the role, we’ll ask you to interview on Zoom – you’ll need WiFi and a laptop, or a 4G-enabled smartphone. If you don’t have access to either of these, or you need support with your application, get in touch with us at [email protected]. Similarly, please email us with any questions or if you want to pause your application for a bit – we’ll be happy to keep you updated on future opportunities like the one above.