Software Engineer II

at  SelectQuote Inc

Company Overview:
More than 35 years ago, SelectQuote was founded on one core promise: to help our customers protect the people they value most. We pioneered the way consumers shopped for term life insurance, and now, we also help people find home insurance, auto insurance, senior health insurance and more. Our quick and easy process saves consumers both time and money, and today, more than 2 million families trust us to help them with their insurance needs.
But what truly sets us apart is our people, and the opportunities to grow your career with SelectQuote are unmatched.
About the Role:

JOB SUMMARY:

As a Software Engineer II you will be responsible for independently developing and maintaining software products that delight our users. You will collaborate within a cross-functional team fostering mutual learning and growth while building supporting and deploying software with high availability performance efficiency and security ensuring disaster recovery capabilities. Additionally you may participate in deployments security tasks performance tuning and production monitoring.

SKILLS/ABILITIES:

• Ability to perform tasks with minimal technical supervision
• Strong communication skills
• Strong initiative innovative thinking skills and the ability to analyze details and adopt a strategic view
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to effectively build relationships promote a collaborative team environment and influence others

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related field.
• 2 years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in front end technology such as HTML CSS and JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (React required).
• Experience in back end technology such as Java (Java required).
• Experience in source code version control (git preferred).
• Experience in relational database technology.
• Experience in writing SQL queries against a relational database.
• Experience in cloud native design and development (AWS preferred).
• Experience in containerization (Docker).
• Experience in CI/CD tools.
• Familiarity with design patterns and software architecture principles.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Work is performed indoors with potential for exposure to safety and health hazards related to office work. Could periodically travel to other office and operational sites. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Independently write clean well-documented and maintainable code.
• Conduct unit and integration testing to ensure code quality and functionality.
• Participate in code reviews learn from team feedback and provide suggestions for code improvement.
• Debug and troubleshoot moderately complex software issues efficiently.
• Follow best practices established by the organization and participate in improvement conversations.
• Participate in a predictable on-call schedule to provide major incident support for production issues.
• Collaborate with team members in an agile development environment and actively contributes to team discussions.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest software development trends and technologies.
• Participate in technical design discussions and document solutions for minimally complex problems.
• Work with agile team members to ensure user stories are actionable valuable testable and easy to understand by stakeholders.
• Document review and ensure that all quality and change control standards are met.
• Ability to work in multiple areas of the technology stack.