FULL STACK WEB ENGINEER
COMPANY PROFILE
Opterrix™ is a proactive risk management platform that empowers insurance carriers to build and sustain more profitable portfolios. Our software leverages real-time carrier data with proprietary weather data and modeling to proactively mitigate avoidable losses while optimizing claims response strategies and driving customer satisfaction.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Opterrix is a growing insurtech startup that has developed the industry's most powerful risk management architecture designed to visualize, predict, and automate key workflows throughout the P&C insurance value chain.
Customers love it.
Prospects want it.
We're looking for a talented full stack web engineer to join our growing development team based in Madison, WI. You will be a member of a smart, fun, and motivated team that is producing the latest in analytics and decision-making tools for the risk industry.
The ideal candidate will have experience developing and implementing JavaScript and Python applications with an emphasis on optimization, API design, and architecture. You will be working across the front and backend of our products to keep them performant, scalable, and beautiful.
Our user-centric development philosophy focuses on delivering exceptional functionality with stunning user experiences. Customers love this platform and expanded feature requests are coming in faster than we can deliver.
If you enjoy:
· Diverse and fast-paced project work guided by sprint/agile philosophies
· Quick prototyping to validate customer desirability
· Exploring large and diverse data sets (weather, consumer, market)
· Experimenting with machine learning and other predictive technologies
· Designing and developing products that customers love
…we would like to meet you.
DUTIES AND RESPOSIBILITIES
· Collaborate, educate, and elevate the development capabilities of our team.
· Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
· Develop and enhance user-facing features with a focus on customer empathy.
· Build reusable code and libraries that scale across multiple use cases.
· Perform code analysis, requirements analysis, identification of code metrics, system risk analysis and software reliability analysis.
· Performance tuning, improvement, balancing, usability, automation, and documentation.
QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS
· Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Graphic Design or relevant field.
· Experience: 2+ years of experience in Design/Development.
SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
· Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS or similar relevant field
· 2+ years of experience in web technologies, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
· Strong proficiency in the latest JavaScript (ES6)
· Developing user interfaces with ReactJS
· Experience with responsive design for desktop/mobile
· Experience working with Redux, React-Router, and other ReactJS focused libraries
· Working knowledge of Python 3.7+ and web server frameworks like Flask
· Familiarity with Docker in both development and production environments
· Experience with source/version control using git
· Appreciation of agile development and the ambiguity of a rapidly changing environment
· Familiarity with relational databases and RDBMS (PostgreSQL)
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Opterrix was designed, validated, and scaled using lean innovation principles within several top insurance companies. Our user-centric development philosophy focuses on deep industry empathy, behavioral science, best-in-class technology, and speed to value.
Opterrix is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity and does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic, in employment or other programs. The company offers a comprehensive salary and benefit package (including medical and dental).
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: Up to $82,500.00 per year
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Work Location: Remote