Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
SquareTrade is a rapidly growing company in the $30 billion industry, revolutionizing it with service innovation and customer satisfaction. They partner with major retailers and carriers globally and are expanding in Europe and Asia Pacific. As a member of the Allstate family, SquareTrade has headquarters in San Francisco and London. The engineering group's leading-edge Agile team is seeking a motivated and energetic Senior Software Engineer to contribute to mission-critical applications. This role offers limitless opportunities for achievement as the company expands and seeks to improve its architecture and solution offerings for millions of global customers. The team embraces a fast-paced Agile XP environment, practicing pair programming and Test-Driven Development (TDD). The engineer will collaborate with engineering leads, product and design teams, and other developers to deliver scalable, secure, robust, and high-performing applications, utilizing microservices architecture, distributed technologies, latest frontend frameworks, and sophisticated monitoring tools.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related majors is REQUIRED
- 5+ years of professional software development experience with a successful track record
- Strong proficiency in Python, Java, Spring Boot, Kafka and microservices framework
- Exposure to Generative AI technologies and use cases
- Hands-on experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) and writes high-quality, testable code
- Comfortable working in a pair-programming (XP) environment
- Experience with relational databases, such as PosgreSQL
- Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Github
- Familiarity with build pipeline such as Jenkins
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with cloud and hybrid environments, including Azure, AWS, and on-prem systems
- Familiarity with web related technologies, such as Angular, JavaScript, CSS
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes and DevOps practices
- Domain experience in the warranty, insurance, fintech, or e-commerce.
Responsibilities
- Participates in iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input
- Designs, develops, and maintains secure, scalable, and high-performance microservices and APIs using modern frameworks (e.g. Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, cloud-native technologies)
- Designs, develops, and integrates Generative AI modules (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini, RAG, Python), and fine-tunes results for specific use cases
- Build and operate CI/CD pipelines and support deployments across AWS and Azure
- Monitor and improve production systems, troubleshoot complex issues
- Adopt and actively participate in XP practices including daily standups, pair programming, retrospectives, and TDD
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision coverage with network optionality and the ability to contribute to a savings account (HSA or FSA)
- Up to 4% company match into 401(k) and contributions into your company-sponsored pension
- $75/month budget to help prioritize your physical wellbeing
- $80/month stipend to subsidize connectivity costs
- Mental health resources including free 1:1 therapy, coaching sessions and digital resources
- Supportive leave policies
- Flexible Time Off Policy in addition to 9 Company Holidays
- Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250 per year to further your personal educational advancement desires
- Hybrid work arrangements with regular investment in gatherings/offsites to spend time together as team
- Various corporate perks and discounts
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
251-500 employees
