Operations Manager

About You

 

You want to be the lead engineer on the team building our platform delivering our solutions to our partners in the insurance ecosystem. You will collaborate directly with the other FutureProof teams. Your work will be pivotal to shaping FutureProof's product. 

 

You are an experienced backend engineer and have worked extensively on building scalable backend services in the cloud. You thrive on taking full ownership of your projects and delivering them on-time and with high quality. You demonstrate tenacity, resilience, and initiative, enabling you to organize and lead projects, overcome challenges, and propose solutions. You are highly collaborative in working with the rest of the engineering team as well as the other FutureProof teams. You also personify a growth mindset with a team-first attitude.

 

You want to be part of a company that is changing how insurance and the broader financial sector manage climate risk. You are inspired to bring new climate solutions to the market. You thrive in dynamic environments.

 

Responsibilities

 

The backend engineer role is a full-time position. In this role, you will be expected to: 

 

• Develop, maintain, and support new functionalities/services that are required for the product

• Develop, maintain, and support the APIs that are the gateway to the product from external parties

• Work effectively with tight deadlines and frequent iteration of product features.

• Work closely with the product team to define and solidify the requirements for new functionalities/services and translate them into high-quality design and code

• Work closely with the insurance and analytics team to rapidly iterate on new features/functionalities

• Solve challenging and complex technical problems with appropriate (well-designed and thought-through) technical solutions 

• Help improve code quality by developing unit, functional, and end-to-end tests, and automating them in our infrastructure

• Develop high-quality code that meets the internal standards and requirements for style, maintainability, and performance

• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to the rest of the team

• Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team (i.e., "technical debt"), propose and implement solutions

 

The role is remote and the job can be done from anywhere in the United States.

 

Qualifications

 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or related field

• 5+ years of professional experience as a backend engineer developing functionalities, services, and APIs

• Experience developing REST-based APIs

• Excellent knowledge of security and how to apply those principles to services and/or APIs 

• Proven ability in developing complex and high-performing backend functionalities, services, and APIs

• Strong ability to code in Python

• Have a basic working understanding of frontend technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

• Experience with cloud deployments (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and Kubernetes

• Strong communication skills with a high emphasis on the ability to explain technology in business terms

• Ability to make technical decisions regarding the projects you own and drive initiatives to completion

• Ability to derive and establish a path forward out of an ambiguous set of requirements

• Familiarity with version control tools such as git

• Stewardship of good engineering practices 

• Intuition for product prioritization and judicious compromise to iteratively deliver value

• Positive and solution-oriented mindset

 

Application

 

To apply, please send your resume to info@futureproof.am.

 

FutureProof celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.