Job title: Senior Software Development Team Lead
Company: biBERK Insurance Services
Job description: biBerk is building a cloud-first, API driven, dynamic insurance platform that enables customers to purchase insurance policies directly online. Expanding our team, we are adding experienced software innovators to enhance our development efforts.This role combines technical expertise with leadership skills. Developers in the Team Lead position will lead a dev team, help coordinate the day-to-day activities of various team members, assist team with roadblocks, and lead planning sessions. This developer will work closely with the team’s product owner to become a subject matter expert (SME) for the domain. They will also serve as individual contributors on the dev team, taking on tasks for both technical design and development.Job Responsibilities
- Lead a cross functional, agile development team including members from development, quality assurance, and business analysts
- Serve as technical SME for a particular domain within the overall platform
- Provide guidance and mentoring including pair programming, code reviews, demos, group/1:1 coaching, and career development planning
- Design system features to meet business objectives while fitting into the enterprise platform ecosystem
- Contribute to cross-team platform design decisions
- Collaborate with Product team to ensure that requirements are understood, and short-term and long-term business objectives are met
- Follow department-wide technical, process, and quality standards while contributing to their improvement
- Participate in staffing decisions including interviews and hiring
- Take a lead role in creating technical documentation and content, ensuring that knowledge is transferred across the team
- Day to day code contributions to our repo completing user stories/tasks
- Guide the team regarding unit testing; collaborate closely with QA leadership to guarantee successful functional and regression testing of all features
- Ensure that the team achieves system performance goals
- Lead the dev team to think with a security first mindset
- Take ownership of problems and solutions, being proactive to ensure success
- Provide innovative problem-solving skills, thinking outside the box
- Occasional travel to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton PA area for strategy meetings (several times per year)
- Normal working hours based on Eastern US time
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science/related field or equivalent working experience
- 10+ years of experience as a software developer, primarily using C#
- Excellent programming, debugging, and troubleshooting skills with C# and .NET
- 3+ years of experience leading development teams
- Enterprise level system architecture experience, designing and delivering RESTful APIs, integrations, and complex business processes
- Enterprise level design and configuration of cloud services including serverless, data storage, messaging, logging, etc., preferably with Azure
- Experience with design and implementation of both monolithic and microservice architectures
- Experience designing reliable and performant data storage solutions and schemas utilizing cloud technologies including SQL DBs, Document DBs, and unstructured data
- Experience with creating CI/CD pipelines supporting Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, collaboration capabilities, and attention to detail
- Experience working on large software development projects while collaborating across multiple agile teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Commercial Property and Casualty insurance experience
- Practical working knowledge of ASP.NET MVC, and .NET Core
- Experience with TypeScript and SPA frameworks (Angular, React, etc.)
- Internal job title may vary as we have multiple internal levels of Team Lead*
About biBerkbiBerk is where commercial insurance buyers can obtain coverage for their businesses from insurers of the Berkshire Hathaway group of Insurance Companies, one of the best capitalized insurance groups in the world. Our parent, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (berkshirehathaway.com) is a holding company with diversified interests in a host of industries, including insurance, energy, transportation and manufacturing. Most policies issued through biBerk.com will be underwritten by Berkshire Hathaway Direct Insurance Company (“BHDIC”), which is an AM Best rated A++ insurer.BHDIC is domiciled in Omaha, Nebraska. BHDIC and the team at biBerk are focused on helping small business owners quickly and easily buy affordable insurance directly from a financially strong insurance company they can trust.Some Highlights of our benefits are:
- Great work environment with growth opportunity
- Subsidized downtown parking
- Competitive compensation
- Generous amounts of vacation and sick time
- Closed on major holidays
- 401(k) with company match
- A fantastic healthcare package
- Tuition reimbursement after 6 months of employment
In accordance with pay transparency laws and regulations, the following good faith compensation range estimate is being provided. The salary range for this position is $114,500 to $160,000 per year. Final compensation will be based on candidate qualifications, geographic location, and other considerations permitted by law.
Expected salary: $114500 – 160000 per year
Location: USA
Job date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 23:15:07 GMT
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