About the position
Trellis is seeking skilled engineers to join their team and take ownership of projects throughout the development cycle. The role involves identifying opportunities to enhance the quality, stability, and scalability of their systems, which are being integrated into major consumer-facing platforms. This opportunity allows individuals to contribute to a fast-growing insurtech company that is focused on empowering consumers to access and utilize their personal insurance information for tailored and valuable products and services.
Responsibilities
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve the quality, stability, and scalability of our systems
- Take ownership of projects through the entire development cycle
- Plan, develop, validate, iterate, and maintain projects
- Integrate software into large consumer-facing properties
- Collaborate with the team to improve the software and systems
- Work quickly and pragmatically to meet project deadlines
- Constantly learn and work towards bettering oneself and the way of working
- Fulfill responsibilities and promises to colleagues and customers with extreme ownership
- Work transparently, solicit feedback, and collaborate effectively
- Maintain a positive attitude and focus on the potential in the world and in each other
Requirements
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve the quality, stability, and scalability of systems
- Ownership of projects through the entire development cycle
- Planning, development, validation, iteration, and maintenance of projects
- Integration of software into large consumer-facing properties
- Talented engineers with strong technical skills
Benefits
- Ownership of projects through the entire development cycle
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve quality, stability, and scalability of systems
- Develop and implement new product features with real user impact
- Expand network of providers to cover all insurance needs of customers
- Work on APIs that enable a better digital experience for insurance buyers
- Expand functionality of existing products based on insights from analytics and experimentation efforts
- Conduct code reviews and provide helpful feedback
- Collaborate cross functionally to solve business problems and support rapid growth
- 4+ years of software development experience in a production environment
- Strong sense of pride in the quality of work and embracing ownership
- Experience working in backend systems (RESTful APIs, datastores)
- Previous experience writing high-quality, effective testing
- Ability to communicate about technical problems and propose solutions
- Ability to work in complex systems that require deep domain context
- Nice to have: experience working in fast-paced, growing startups
- Nice to have: production experience with React, Node, TypeScript, Firestore
- Nice to have: familiarity with cloud environments, especially the Google Cloud stack
- Nice to have: prior experience in AdTech or Insurance