Contract Senior Software Engineer - Fullstack

Contract Position

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina (Remote)
Reports To: Sr. Engineering Manager
Employment Type: 12-month contract with possibility of extension

Pie's mission is to empower small businesses to thrive by making commercial insurance affordable and as easy as pie. We leverage technology to transform how small businesses buy and experience commercial insurance.

Like our small business customers, we are a diverse team of builders, dreamers, and entrepreneurs who are driven by core values and operating principles that guide every decision we make.

Pie Insurance's Technology team builds and operates a suite of applications and services that allow direct consumers, partners, and agents to manage commercial insurance policies. The team collaborates closely with our business partners to design and implement new features to help the company scale with increasing demand.

We are seeking highly motivated and accomplished Senior Fullstack Engineers who encourage an environment where engineers are thought leaders and foster a culture of diversity and inclusion. Acting as leaders across the organization on design, architecture, and best practice, they elevate those around them and push the company forward.

How You'll Do It

Own & Evolve Systems:

• Actively own features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems
• View working with product management, product design, stakeholders, and fellow engineers as a collaborative and transparent process

Drive Engineering Excellence:

• Continually refine engineering practices and architectural designs to align with Pie's objectives, collaborating closely with senior and staff engineers and technology leadership
• Champion and promote best practices across the organization
• Produce high-quality results by leading or contributing heavily to large cross-functional projects with significant business impact

Deliver & Operate:

• Deliver software using continuous delivery and leverage your experience to enhance delivery pipelines
• Assist the support and operations teams in triaging and resolving production issues
• Continually build highly modular and reusable code using industry standards and best practices
• View on-call rotations as a normal part of software engineering duties, constantly looking for ways to improve operational stability and visibility

Mentor & Grow the Team:

• Mentor other engineers and be deeply involved in the code review process

The Right Stuff

• 4+ years of experience writing server-side APIs leveraging REST and GraphQL
• 2+ years of experience with front-end technologies leveraging server-side rendering (SSR)
• Experience building complex distributed systems, especially in cloud environments
• Strong understanding of object-oriented and backend programming with experience in TypeScript and/or JavaScript (C# is a nice to have)
• Experience leveraging TypeScript and/or JavaScript for frontend development with React, MobX, and component libraries
• Skilled in a wide range of database systems, encompassing both relational and NoSQL, with a comprehensive grasp of their architectures and capabilities
• Experience with public cloud services (AWS preferred)
• Experience with Scrum or other agile development methodologies and their use in the SDLC
• Strong focus on engineering scalable and maintainable systems, with attention to code quality, secure code development, and performance
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership and drive the completion of key projects that impact organizational KPIs
• Experience in a product-led organization
• Strong understanding and experience with best-in-class CI/CD practices for both frontend and backend systems
• Deep architecture and design knowledge with experience in microservices and service-oriented architecture