CORTES 23: SOFTWARE ENGINEER

About the role

Join Cortes 23 and shape the future of digital insurance. We're revolutionizing the life insurance industry through our innovative instant-decision platform—combining advanced analytics, real-time data integration, and deep insurance expertise. Be part of a dynamic team that's redefining how insurers deliver seamless, real-time underwriting experiences without compromising rigorous risk management standards.

You are an experienced software engineer with expertise in building both front and back-end services. You excel at building robust and scalable systems, and writing clean and maintainable code. Joining our team means collaborating with a small but growing group of skilled software engineers. You'll play a key role in shaping the evolution of our systems while fostering a culture of innovation, quality, and support.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with the CTO to implement features and improvements.
• Take shared ownership of our front and back-end systems, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Build and maintain a high-quality code base using Typescript, NextJS, Pulumi (with SST) and the event-driven architecture.
• Actively participate in engineering team discussions, explaining your solutions clearly while remaining open to feedback and suggestions.

Requirements

• 3+ years' experience as a software engineer.
• JavaScript knowledge: Understanding of common APIs and how to use them effectively.
• TypeScript knowledge, including: built-in and custom utility types and advanced types (e.g., map-types).
• React knowledge: Hooks, React principles, and best practices.
• Relational databases: Experience designing, querying, and optimizing databases like MySQL.
• Serverless experience: Practical knowledge designing, building, and optimizing serverless applications, including familiarity with event-driven architectures and infrastructure-as-code tools (experience with SST is a plus).
• AWS: Hands-on experience with AWS services such as S3, Lambda, and CloudWatch.

Qualifications

• The ability to explain your solutions clearly and respectfully - a clear and concise communicator.
• Passionate about your work.
• Reliable and hold yourself and your work to a high standard.
• Know the difference between simple and easy.
• Willingness to write documentation.

Interview Process

• Call Screen
• Coding Problem Interview
• Take-Home Assignment
• Deep-Dive Interview
• Interviews with key members of our team

Benefits

• Remote forever.
• Casual work environment.
• Opportunity to work with a growing and international team.
• In-person team meet-ups with our entire global team twice per year.

Compensation range: $65,000 - $85,000 USD