Middle Software Engineer

We are a marketplace where users can compare personalized, prequalified rates and quotes from multiple lenders and carriers, for student loans, mortgages, personal loans, and insurance. 

We’re challenging the status quo by giving power to the consumer. We believe in a world where ‘ethical’, ‘lending’, and ‘insurance’ can coexist, so we set out to build innovative platforms that actually work for customers. Our mission is to help people find the best loan or insurance policy possible. 

We believe researching and buying loans or insurance shouldn’t be confusing or complex, so we’ve focused on simplicity. We’ve created the only unbiased loan and insurance buying process out there, which makes finding options straightforward and clear. 

Responsibilities

• Backend monitoring and support of the customer-facing application where customers fill out their home and auto profiles to request quotes.
• Support post-deployment fallouts on projects worked on and released to production.
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating, analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Cross-team collaboration in driving the end to end delivery of Insurance quotes.
• Participating in the code reviews and design discussions with other engineers.
• Adhere to key principles: Code and design for best performance, scalability and resiliency.
• Participate in Agile planning and standup meetings.
• Participates in the testing process through test review and analysis, test witnessing and certification of software.
• Develop backend services using Ruby.
• Be a self-starter, capable of solving ambiguous and challenging technical problems with wide scope.
• Deliver trustworthy solutions for engineers allowing them to focus on experimentation, evolution, and delivery of high-quality features.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, business users, project managers and other engineers to achieve elegant solutions.
• Backend development including design, documentation, implementation, and testing.
• Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices.

Skills Required

• 3+ years experience with back-end development using Ruby on Rails.
• Experience building API base applications.
• Understanding of the web stack, including HTML/CSS, Javascript, JSON, HTTP requests.
• Experience with Relational Databases and SQL (MySQL preferred).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• English — active intermediate level or higher.

Nice to have:

• Experience with GraphQL.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and services (AWS preferred) for deploying and managing applications.
• Experience with RSpec or similar unit test frameworks for RoR.
• Understanding Agile methodologies and CI/CD best practices.
• Being ready to work with FE is a plus.

Technology Stack Used:

The current backend is based on Ruby. AI-driven web applications are Phyton.

Frontend is React with a custom server-side implementation and Next.js.

Team composition:

Team Lead, 2 FE, 2 BE, 1 FullStack, 2 QA, 1 AQA.

- Social Package

For B2B cooperation we offer: paid vacation and fully-paid sick leaves; medical insurance or gym compensation; holidays days off; trainings compensation and English classes.

- Career opportunities

Our team is built on excellent working experience, open-mindedness, and togetherness. We are open to discussion, helpful and ready to share our expertise with the newcomers.

- Education and Development

We encourage our employees to participate in workshops, conferences, and meetups.

- Technical Events

We are organizing ZoolaTalks, where are meetups for employees, where experienced engineers share their cases, solutions, and ideas. We go deeper into knowledge-sharing as it helps to build strong teams with deep expertise.

Are you curious? Apply now to learn more about this opportunity