Backend Software Engineer

Company: Applied Systems, Inc.
Location: Phoenix
Posted on: June 12, 2021

Job Description:

Job Description

Indio, a subsidiary of Applied Systems Inc., is currently searching for a knowledgeable and talented Backend Software Engineer to join our global engineering organization. Indio is revolutionizing the commercial insurance experience for both agents and businesses through the means of intelligent software. We're taking the painful process of applying for commercial insurance and making it a breeze. We are looking for a talented Backend Engineer who will help us innovate and shape our products and services as we continue to expand our offering. Our engineers are dedicated to transforming how insurance agents interact with clients and work in partnership with the rest of the organization to evolve our product. Along with excellent architecture design and programming skills, the successful candidate will have the passion to challenge, extend and improve our existing architecture so that we can create exceptional user experiences across our platform. You

Indio Engineering offers a culture of constant learning and knowledge sharing. Our AWS hosted API backend is based in Django REST Framework and Postgres on RDS. We've built our own DB platform on top of Postgres to expose managing hundreds of data structures to our non-technical operations team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate and guide the engineering design and development of high-performance, highly secure and scalable services, and APIs
• Help build out the service architecture that interacts with the front-end stack to seamlessly talk to our data layer and business partner APIs
• Architect, develop and drive improvements to our evolving backend infrastructure that have a direct impact on engagement and customer satisfaction
• Collaborate and help define the direction of the development and evolution of our backend architecture while communicating trade-offs between technical debt, quality, and speed
• Participate and influence feature discovery discussions

QUALIFICATIONS FOR THIS JOB

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/related field; or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of experience in Python and SQL with a proven track record of building web applications or services
• Experience in Django REST Framework (RESTful API and Web API design) is preferred

• Experience working with Single Page App Frameworks using React preferred

• Ability to work on complex technical challenges and collaborate in technical discussions with other engineers
• Strong attention to detail

WHO WE ARE

Indio is modernizing the business insurance industry, making the insurance application and renewal process fast, easy, and error free. Indio's application solves a traditionally broken process in the insurance industry by digitizing the client risk capture and application experience, making it more collaborative, simpler and error-free.

The Indio team has years of experience in traditional insurance, software engineering, and modern design, and is driven by a passion to transform an industry. Owned by the industry's leading software company, Applied Systems, our staff has access to resources, expertise, and global scale to grow their career and change an industry.

Indio, a subsidiary of Applied Systems, is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Diversity and Inclusion is a business imperative and is a part of building our brand and reputation. At Indio, we are committed to recruit, develop, retain, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.

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