Backend Engineer Jobs

Who We Are At Embroker

Embroker is the radically simple destination for industry-tailored commercial insurance. Our mission is to make it radically easier for businesses to get the right coverage at the best price. With a technology-first, customer-centric approach, Embroker is changing how businesses protect themselves, their staff, and their customers. In 2015, Embroker has raised over $150M in funding from leading fintech investors.

• This role will sit remotely in Ottawa, Canada.

What you will own in this role:

• Assist in clarifying stakeholder requirements; communicate questions and address concerns; provide relevant and detailed updates and feedback in a timely manner
• Proactively find and address areas of concern and identify potential roadblocks
• Design appropriate technical solutions based on requirements provided while taking into account timelines and future re-use ability
• Collaborate with your team to deliver independent microservices by decoupling capabilities associated with particular domains within the platform (pricing, payments, risk management)

The experience we believe is the right fit:

• Ability to write clean, well-designed, and high-quality code in a highly collaborative Agile development environment
• Experience building solutions with at least one cloud platform (AWS preferred)
• A mindset of constantly learning new things
• 3+ years of experience in web application development
• Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• 2+ years experience in cloud-based microservices development
• Passion for growing your skills, tackling interesting work, and challenging problems
• Experience programming with Go
• Skilled in designing/building RESTful APIs

We work in small, cross-functional teams of 3-6 people and use Slack to stay connected.

You can see more about our tech stack on: https://stackshare.io/embroker/embroker

What experience is nice to have:

• Containerization and Orchestration (Docker / Kubernetes)
• Event-driven and RESTful microservice architectures
• React and Typescript
• Modern CI/CD Tools (Github Actions, Gitlab)
• Infrastructure As Code (Ansible/Terraform/Packer or equivalent)
• TDD and DDD
• Modern Testing Frameworks (Browserstack)
• APM tools (Datadog, Appdyanmics, New Relic)
• PostgreSQL or other RMDS system

Our Values

The Embroker Pack lives by three core values that have taken us from an idea to a growing, well-funded player in the Insurtech space.

Pack First

We succeed and fail as one team. We optimize for what is best for our entire organization. We always assume positive intent.

Be All-In

We are 100% committed. We move fast and are proud of what we build. We attack challenges with relentless positivity.

Create Magic

We strive to amaze and delight at every touchpoint. We make our work fun through teamwork, play, and positive energy.

Right to Work/E-Verify Poster

We believe that systemic structures and practices disproportionately disadvantage the most marginalized people in society — including people of color, people from working-class backgrounds, women, and LGBTQ people. We believe that these communities must be represented and included in the work we do to make our Pack stronger and more creative, and improve the way we do business. We strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or members of other marginalized communities.