Software Engineer III

Who We Are

Zinnia is the leading technology platform for accelerating life and annuities growth. With innovative enterprise solutions and data insights, Zinnia simplifies the experience of buying, selling, and administering insurance products. All of which enables more people to protect their financial futures. Our success is driven by a commitment to three core values: be bold, team up, deliver value – and that we do. Zinnia has over $180 billion in assets under administration, serves 100+ carrier clients, 2500 distributors and partners, and over 2 million policyholders.

Zinnia Marketplace is an online insurance platform aimed at consumers, designed to cater to the digital age. We help match families with the right insurance product and carrier through our data-enabled aggregated marketplace, customized for each familys needs. Zinnia transforms the life and annuity product’s creation, sale, and administration. We’re addressing the new realities of the marketplace, and we understand what consumers want and deserve: a great experience from the moment they consider these products until their policies are claimed.

Who You Are

Software Engineers are crucial in the design, development/configuration, testing, deployment, and maintenance of Zinnia software platforms. Software Engineers work with the product team and business stakeholders to develop solutions and/or products that fulfill the needs of Zinnias Marketplace business unit. Those solutions and/or products help Zinnia deliver a better and more efficient service to end customers and clients.

What You’ll Do

• Iteratively build features (and squash bugs) for the Zinnia Marketplace team, which helps people get the insurance coverage they need to protect their family, property, and finances
• Contribute to strategic integrations and partnerships with external carriers and financial institutions
• Collaborate globally on a cross-functional team to identify, prioritize, and take opportunities to help customers get the financial protection they need, and feel good about it
• Architect and maintain scalable, extensible code to empower our entire engineering organization to ship products across platforms
• Work in a full-stack team and build cross-platform products and features using React, Ruby on Rails, Golang, Python, and lots of REST, GraphQL, and gRPC in between
• Learn new frameworks and tools to build and support features across multiple platforms and tech stacks
  
  

• 3–6 years of full-stack software engineering experience with a focus on front-end development (particularly in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frameworks such as React), along with working knowledge of backend technologies like Ruby on Rails, Golang, or Python
• Experience working with relational databases (i.e., Postgres, MySQL, etc.)
• An understanding of distributed systems, cloud technologies (i.e., GCP, AWS, etc), and containerization (i.e., Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Familiarity with industry best practices (e.g., CD/CI, agile best practices, unit testing, etc.)
• Proficiency in Git, Jira, and other relevant tools
• Experience in designing and developing in a microservices-based architecture
• A track record of – and desire to continue – learning new technologies and tools across the stack
• Excellent problem-solving skills, a keen eye for detail, and a desire to deliver high-quality code
• Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a dynamic team environment
• A strong sense of product and user experience
  
  

• Experience in Ruby, GoLang, Typescript, and React.
• Full-stack experience preferred
• Experience working in the insurance industry is a plus