About Us
We Power. You Insure.
Breathe Life is helping protect families around the world by transforming the way individual insurance is bought and sold today. The API-driven Breathe Life Enterprise Commerce Platform is focused on delivering new business, using advanced analytics and AI to unify customer data into a single view and dispatch leads to the right channel with the right insurance product at the right time. Using the Breathe Life platform, carriers can sell more policies through advisors, direct, or anywhere in between.
With significant financial backing from industry veteran angel investors from AXA, AIG, and RGA, along with institutional backing from Diagram Ventures, and Real Ventures, our funding portfolio gives us a unique advantage in the industry.
At our core, we are building technology that brings financial security to all, whoever and wherever they are.
We are seeking Full-Stack Software Engineers to work with us! Our ideal candidate is someone who is a strong team player, accountable and proactive.
What you’d be doing:
- Participate in projects from initial idea to launch;
- Design and implement features in small teams;
- Work closely with peers across functions (dev, design, product, marketing);
- Contribute full-stack features;
- Specialize in important areas that play to your strengths;
- Write software and configuration that defines and manages our deployment using Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform;
- Build powerful APIs using JavaScript;
- Build reusable components using React, Redux and a modern frontend stack;
- Analyze performance and reliability - data should move fast and accurately;
- Contribute to open source software we use;
- Implement security and data protection best practices;
- Stay up to date on the latest technology and help us stay aligned with emerging best practices where practical;
- Help onboard and ramp up the next software engineers as we grow the team.
What we're looking for:
- Bachelor’s degree or more in Computer Science, Software Engineering
- OR equivalent industry experience;
- Demonstrated achievements in software development;
- Mastery or strong interest in technologies we use (Javascript, React, Redux, Node.js)
- Ability to excel in cross-functional teams and in an agile environment;
- Experience working in a high-growth environment;
- A great track record demonstrating drive and ambition;
- Startup experience or strong interest;
- Excellent communications skills;
- Humility and collaboration.
What we offer:
- The opportunity to have a significant impact on a product that will change how people think about and purchase Life Insurance;
- The opportunity to be part of an innovative and exciting company that is completely changing an outdated industry;
- A team of very experienced, hard-working, ambitious and caring individuals;
- Competitive salary and stock options;
- Four weeks of vacation + one week during the holiday period;
- Three personal days and unlimited sick days;
- Company paid top-tier health benefits plan and a telemedicine service;
- A day off on your Birthday;
- A flexible work-from-home policy.
Our Tech Stack:
Frontend
- TypeScript
- ReactJS
- Redux
- Styled Components
Backend
- NodeJS
- TypeScript
- FeatherJS
- PubSub
- PostgreSQL
DevOps/Infrastructure
- Google Cloud Platform
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Sentry
- Datadog
Disclaimer:
Although all of our team members are called “Software Engineers”, we are open to many different experiences, whether they involve a software engineering degree, or not. Feel free to apply if you identify more with one of the following titles:
- Software Developer
- Front End Engineer/Developer
- Back End Engineer/Developer
- UX Engineer/Developer
- JavaScript Developer
In addition, we know that strong developers learn quickly, and that most of the knowledge across programming languages is transferable. For that reason, we are not necessarily looking for people with experience in our specific tech stack, as long as you’re open to learning and using the technologies we use, we’re open to anyone with experience in any programming language or framework, such as JavaScript / TypeScript (React, Vue, Angular, jQuery, HTML, CSS etc.), Ruby / Ruby on Rails, Python, PHP, Swift, Java, Kotlin, Go, C , C++, C#
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