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Gordon Tay
Last active 2 years ago
Job description for Software Engineer (Web, Frontend, Backend, Full-Stack) at Surer
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Surer is an InsurTech startup that will revolutionise the way the General Insurance industry manages their entire workflow, from an agent advising their clients (the end policyholder) to how the Insurer distributes their products.
And as a Software Engineer, you get to be a part of the revolution! We are building delightful experiences for insurance intermediaries and some of the biggest insurers out there, and this role at Surer only means you design, build, and ship for them! At Surer, you can take on big responsibilities to solve some of today's greatest problems in the Insurance industry.
It does not matter if you're stronger in frontend, backend, or both; as long as you're passionate about and skilled at building web products, there's a place for you!
Responsibilities
We are looking for a talented and self-driven Software Engineer who has the nous to think out-of-the-box and make use of the great flexibility we provide to our team - to make a big difference for the Insurance industry and empower the parties within this ecosystem.
Your day to day task will be focused on working directly with our CTO and the founding team and be on the leading front to develop new features, suggest better processes, re-engineering and testing of functionalities.
In summary, you will:
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve our full-stack web software
- Coding: consistently write production-ready code that is testable, easily understood by other developers, and accounts for edge cases and errors, with scalability and performance in mind.
- Testing: write unit tests as well as higher-level tests in accordance with it.
- Debugging: proficient at debugging systematically to diagnose all issues located to a single service
- Collaborate closely with our product designer, product owner, and other engineers based on Agile principles and work with tool sets such as JIRA (or similar issues management systems) while keeping an eye out for emerging technology trends and developments.
- Technical documentation
Experience and Skill Sets
Must have:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent
- Preferably at least 1 year of experience in software development, working on business applications, however fresh grads will be considered as well
- Knowledge or experience in full stack web application development with a variety of languages including but not limited to .Net Core, Javascript, HTML and CSS
- Knowledge or experience in the concept of web development such as HTTP, HTTPS protocols, backend code integration with frontend code via RESTful APIs
- Experience in dealing with Git repo
- Value high quality code and you want to satisfy your thirst for knowledge of the latest technologies every day
- Strong understanding of good software engineering practices (version control, code reviews, testing, refactoring etc.)
- Able to understand and communicate ideas clearly with team members
Nice to Have:
- Knowledge or experience in DevOps and in using the surrounding ecosystem of tools
- Knowledge or experience in working in an agile development environment and familiar with being in a SCRUM team
- Good grasp of security principles, and develops with a security-first mindset
- CI/CD practices
- Familiar with frameworks such as jQuery, Bootstrap
- Able to work independently as well as in a team
- Able to multitask in a demanding, fast paced environment and work with minimal supervision to meet deadlines
- Knowledge or experience in TDD (Test Driven Development) and/or BDD (Behaviour Driven Development)
- Knowledge or experience in building Microservices
- Knowledge or experience in Domain Driven Design (DDD)
What you can get out of us
- Exposure to a fast-paced, yet fun, startup culture
- Work directly with the founding team and have autonomy to make certain decisions
- Opportunity to develop industry-changing products
- Gain knowledge and experience in the InsurTech and FinTech industry
- Flat team structure with no office politics
- You will be engaged in conversations about the business to have a broader perspective of the value of your work as an engineer
- We are a young startup and so have many interns in the team - they will look to you for guidance, which is an opportunity to hone your leadership skills
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About Surer
Surer is a cloud-based, web platform with a market-first technology in the region, that helps all parties in the General Insurance industry automate processes and drive network collaborations, enabling them to provide better service and support to their clients. Launched in August 2020 in Singapore, Surer was founded by a group of professionals with years of experience in the Insurance industry who are passionate about solving inefficiencies within the General Insurance industry as it was a problem they had faced as well. Surer is certified by the Singapore FinTech Association as an InsurTech service provider and is one of the portfolio companies funded by Antler, a global early-stage venture capital firm that invests in the defining technology companies of tomorrow. Visit https://surer.sg/ for more information or read about us in the media at https://surer.sg/category/in-the-news/.
About the founders
Founded by Gordon, Derren and Renfred, we have held positions to grow the business in highly successful startups like PropertyGuru and Carousell, successfully founded and exit-ed from a VendTech startup, ShakeSalad, while also having careers in major insurance companies like AIG, MSIG and QBE. One of us is even an Asian Games Gold Medalist!