Software Engineer

Company Description

SquareTrade is the fastest growing company of its kind. We’re revolutionizing a $30b industry with service innovation and attention to customer satisfaction. We partner with some of the largest, most sophisticated retailers and carriers in the world (Amazon, Walmart, The Home Depot to name a few), consistently win industry awards, have received tens of thousands of 5-star reviews… and we’re just getting started. A member of the Allstate family, SquareTrade has headquarters in San Francisco and London. We are currently expanding in Europe and Asia Pacific, including Japan and Australia.

Job Description

Our leading-edge Agile team in the engineering group is looking for a motivated and energetic Software Engineer who is eager to learn and make big changes to our mission critical applications. This is an exciting time to join, as we continue to rapidly expand and look for new ways to improve our architecture and solution offerings to serve the millions of customers around the globe. Your opportunities for achievement are limitless with SquareTrade/Allstate. We embrace a fast-paced Agile XP environment where we practice pair programming and TDD. You’ll have the opportunity to work with the engineering leads, product and design teams, as well as other developers to deliver applications which are scalable, secure, robust and highly performing. We adopt microservices architecture, distributed technologies, latest frontend frameworks and sophisticated monitoring tools.

Key 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, ElastiCache)
• Designs, develops, and integrates Generative AI modules (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini, RAG, Python), and fine-tunes results for specific use cases
• Performs continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines on AWS and Microsoft Azure
• Monitors in production and improves system performance, reliability, and scalability
• Adopts XP methodology and practices paired programming and test-driven development (TDD) daily
• Participates in daily standups, code reviews and retrospectives

Qualifications

• Bachelors in Computer Science or related majors is REQUIRED
• 3+ years of professional software development experience with a successful track record
• 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

Desirable skills

• 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
• Experience in the warranty, insurance, fintech, or e-commerce domains

Additional Information

At SquareTrade you'll have access to:  

• 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 

This role is a hybrid role associated with our Bay Area Office or Denver, CO office.

SquareTrade estimates the possible base compensation for this role, if hired in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, to be in the range : $140K - 170K

SquareTrade estimates the possible base compensation for this role, if hired in the Denver, Colorado, to be in the range : $90K - 140K

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