Senior Software Engineer
Maxwell
Maxwell’s mission is to make better health and financial security possible for all Americans by simplifying benefits and insurance. Maxwell Health is a marketplace that empowers consultants and employers to offer the best benefits to employees, helping them achieve better health and financial security. Maxwell’s technology platform automates HR and benefits administration, providing a user-friendly experience for employees to understand, shop for, and use their benefits.
Job Description:
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer that brings an interdisciplinary background to help us solve hard problems. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:
- Create and maintain multiple software services deployed daily.
- Drive software design and architecture decisions
- Follow best practices around Scrum and Kanban agile software methodologies.
- Understand and model a complex industry using techniques such as Domain-Driven Design.
- Pair program with team members.
- Encourage and model good development practices through code reviews and mentoring other engineers.
- Achieve operational excellence using metrics, monitoring, and alerting.
- Continuously integrate and deploy new software using a CI/CD pipeline.
Our Tech Stack
Maxwell's products are supported by an exciting mix of modern technologies: Our back end stack is made up of services written in JavaScript (TypeScript), NodeJS, Go, Scala, and PHP that communicate with each other using gRPC and REST. We store our product data in MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis databases. Front end applications are written in JavaScript and make heavy use of React, Redux, and Styled Components. Services are deployed to a Kubernetes cluster using a CI/CD pipeline and are hosted on AWS.
Requirements
- At least 5 years experience developing in JavaScript (React, Node.js), Go and/or Scala.
- Strong willingness to work and collaborate closely with teammates.
- Strong communication skills and great product sense.
- Experience integrating with third party APIs a plus.
- Experience with software development processes such as test-driven development.
- Ability to architect and diagram complex software systems.
- Experience with and appreciation for developing web based business applications with complex data structures and workflows.
- Experience with Travis CI, or related continuous delivery service.
- Bachelor’s degree.
Do you not meet all of these requirements? You can still apply and tell us why you still fit.
We welcome all talented engineers, and are committed to a culture that represents diversity in all its forms. If you think you might thrive in this setting, we would love to hear from you.