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 integrated into major consumer-facing platforms. As a part of this role, individuals will be responsible for planning, development, validation, iteration, and maintenance.
Responsibilities
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve the quality, stability, and scalability of our systems
- Take ownership of projects through the entire development cycle - from planning and development to validation, iteration, and maintenance
Requirements
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve the quality, stability, and scalability of systems
- Ownership of projects through the entire development cycle
- Experience in planning, development, validation, iteration, and maintenance
- Strong engineering skills
- Ability to work remotely (US required)
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Knowledge of software integration
- Familiarity with consumer-facing properties
- Ability to work collaboratively and transparently
- Strong communication skills
Benefits
- 100% remote work (US required)
- Ownership of projects through the entire development cycle
- Opportunities to improve the quality, stability, and scalability of systems
- Development and implementation of new product features with real user impact
- Expansion of network of providers to cover all insurance needs
- Work on APIs that enable a better digital experience for insurance buyers
- Expansion of functionality of existing products based on insights from analytics and experimentation efforts
- Code reviews and helpful feedback to maintain high code quality
- Collaboration 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
- Proven 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
- Experience working in fast-paced, growing startups
- Familiarity with tech stack (React, Node, TypeScript, Firestore)
- Familiarity with cloud environments, especially the Google Cloud stack
- Prior experience in AdTech or Insurance