Lead Software Engineer

About Vouch:

Insurance... sounds slow, old-fashioned, and unexciting. Exactly. Insurance is broken, and it's failing fast-moving, innovative startups.

Vouch is a new, technology-first insurance company backed with $185M in funding from world-class investors. Like Stripe for payments or Brex for credit cards, Vouch is creating the go-to business insurance for high-growth companies.

We're doing this by making insurance fast, responsive, and focused on our high-growth and innovative customers. Instead of printed PDF applications and week-long waits, Vouch is building new technology to solve real problems, writing policies that actually cover relevant startup scenarios, and designing simple experiences in an otherwise frustrating industry.

What does a work environment look like at Vouch?

Vouch has employees located across the U.S., with offices in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City. This role can be based anywhere in the U.S. as long as you can work our Vouch core collaboration hours (8:30 am-2:30 pm Pacific Time) when most internal meetings are held.

The Job:

Vouch is looking for a Full Stack Lead Software Engineer to join our Insurance Distribution team. The Insurance Distribution team is focused on building technology solutions to streamline the process of getting insurance through Vouch. These solutions drive our onboarding, application, quote, and coverage user flows. You will lead large projects, influence architectural choices across the organization, and mentor junior engineers.

You will:

• Own technical design and breakdown for complex software projects
• Lead engineers to deliver multi-phase projects in Vouch’s core product
• Work closely with internal Vouch stakeholders to understand insurance workflows and create flexible solutions
• Set technical direction for the team and support the team in delivering ambitious goals 
• Work closely with other technical leads to ensure consistent engineering standards and patterns

You may be a good fit for the role if: 

• Have 7+ years of development experience and 1+ years leading large-scale projects
• Have experience building distributed systems and APIs
• Experience writing production-level code as a full-stack engineer in TypeScript; Experience with Ruby is a plus
• Have experience in Postgres or another transactional, relational database system, as well as the ability to design schemas
• Have exceptional communication skills. You can effectively talk (and listen) to engineers, designers, product managers, executives, and other stakeholders
• Have experience with software engineering best practices …