Position Overview
Zywave builds market leading SaaS products that are innovative, disruptive and are changing the way insurance is sold and serviced.
Our people, products and services are key to our position as thought leader in our market space.
We are dedicated to the continuous improvement of our products and are growing our Product Development team to support our next major company initiatives!
When you first arrive, you’ll learn about Zywave, our story, our products, our vision, and our process.
Once you’re up and running, you will work with product development team members to develop cutting edge, best-in-class, SaaS applications.
On a regular basis, you will automate, test, provide feedback, review customer issues, document, debug, and troubleshoot our modern web-based applications.
You will lead a software engineering team focused on property and casualty quoting solutions within Zywave's SaaS web application suite.
This is a hybrid role between engineering contributor and team leader.
Position Responsibilities
Develop cutting edge web applications and services using modern development practices and principles
Maintain and modernize existing products
Ensure products match Zywave brand standards
Work with relational databases
Mentor and train other Developers on the team
Build and maintain automated testing
Participate and assist in deployments at a time and manner that doesn’t interfere with customers using the system.
Participate in the decision-making process in relation to factors like which technologies are to be used and why.
Ensure that the direction of the product for the business needs matches the direction of the product for technical needs
Recommend and use industry best practices and tools to build new and maintain current key components that are parts of Agency Management Systems used both internally and externally
Participate in product discovery and research to develop a deep understanding of customer problems and needs
Contribute to the continuous improvement of the product development lifecycle
Make Zywave the best in our business while learning, growing, and having fun
Zywave’s technology stack includes best of breed technologies selected by our Teams to efficiently develop solutions.
We blend technology layers together using modern service-oriented communication patterns such that end users get the best solutions and we get to use the best technology.
Position Requirements
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
You must have 8+ years' of experience with PHP, HTML/JS and Git
You should have a Bachelor's degree
You should have experience leading, training and/or mentoring a team
Preferred knowledge and skills: Symfony, jQuery, Vue, VS Code, PHP Storm, AWS, DynamoDB and Docker.
Why work at Zywave?
Zywave is a cutting-edge SaaS company that has led the digital revolution of the insurance industry over the last 25 years.
We continue to make waves by launching new product functionality and integrations to deliver a world-class customer experience.
Since 2020, Zywave has acquired seven insurtech companies representing over 900 employees globally.
With our remote-first environment and core values that encourage employees to grow, belong and transform professionally there are endless opportunities to build new skills and relationships.
Why wait to hop aboard the rocket ship? Get onboard now!
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