Full Stack Engineer

Counterpart is a management liability insurance platform for the 21st century workplace. We offer products and services to help companies align the risks and incentives of creating great organizations. Our platform is designed to measure risk more efficiently using the most advanced rating system in the industry, while also proactively mitigating the risks of our insureds. Ultimately, we provide businesses with the framework to be the best versions of themselves. That’s where you come in.

As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you will be a prolific individual contributor to the product, dynamic data services, and tooling that we are leveraging to shape the future of insurance. You will help bridge the gap between Product, Insurance, and Data while developing new systems and features in a ready to disrupt industry. In addition, you will help to set the culture, rituals, and processes that underpin a high functioning engineering team and the organization more broadly.

YOU WILL

• Develop new features and components in both the Frontend and Backend of our systems.
• Design and architect new systems, focusing on performance, extensibility, readability, and scalability.
• Make intelligent design decisions based on well researched tradeoffs.
• Design tools that leverage multiple data sets to automate and improve risk evaluation.
• Solve problems end-to-end by building a platform that weaves together different tools and services.
• Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and designers to develop major new products.
• Help to design the rituals and processes that underpin a high functioning engineering team.
• Participate in testing, documenting and debugging code you build.

YOU HAVE

• Passion for Python and a love for being a generalist engineer. You are equally happy working on frontend or backend technology in the course of building something that delights.
• Excitement for building and experimenting with new technologies and systems.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with Python with coding experience building scalable and rich applications across a variety of stacks
• Multiple years of experience in software development with coding experience in server-side programming languages (Python, Node, Ruby)
• At least 1 years dev experience developing with React or Vue JS
• Broad understanding of web development technologies and experience building single page web applications
• Understanding of database technologies like PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, and MongoDB.
• Comfortable with building scalable infrastructure, including data BI tools, front ends, databases, APIs, deployment pipelines, etc.
• Experience working with remote team members consisting of both full-time teammates and 3rd party contractors.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH:

• Derrick Franco, Lead Software Engineer: After teaching himself to code at 13, Derrick went on to co-found Jumpstart in addition to building out the technical divisions at InvestorsAlley and Phinaz Media Group. Nowadays Derrick spends his time reading, with his wife, and working on his podcast The Future of Work Project.
• Fernando Guayasamin, Lead Software Engineer: Fernando is a highly-skilled software engineer with over 18 years of lead experience in the field, with a broad background including platform engineering, data strategy, enterprise systems, mobile application development and embedded software development.
• Newton Troung, Lead Data Engineer: Newton joins Counterpart with 7+ years of experience in platform and data engineering. In his last company Thrive Market, he had a hand in building out new microservices and architecting data pipelines with Airflow and Spark. He's vegetarian and loves trying new restaurants when traveling. Nowadays he's busy keeping up with his 2-year-old and doing outdoor activities with his family. 
• Tobias Schuler, Head of Data & Analytics: After becoming a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and working as a consultant actuary at EY for several years, Tobias went on to drive the actuarial data & systems teams at QBE. He further leveraged his deep insurance and technical expertise at Munich Re Digital Partners in North America, where he headed data and analytics and oversaw the data infrastructure behind some of their largest programs.

We are committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against qualified applicants or employees on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, rule, or regulation.