We are looking for Lead React/JS Developer to create and maintain the architectural vision for the product. Your responsibilities will include developing back-end and front-end components.Your primary focus will be the development of iOS applications and their integration with back-end services. You will be working alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and the creation of quality products are essential.
Prior engineering experience and requirement:
● 4+ years of experience developing consumer-facing applications;
● Ability to brainstorm and design the overall architecture of the iOS application;
● Collaboratively working with graphic designers and converting designs to visual elements (user-centric design is a big part of what we do);
● Understanding of security and data protection (we work with highly sensitive customer activity data).
● Ability to work in a small development and design team;
● Build reusable front-end interfaces with various levels of abstraction;
● Help architect a modular and easily maintainable application infrastructure using sensible and appropriate technologies.
Tech stack: Languages and Framework Requirement:
● Deep knowledge of React-Native;
● Extensive experience building IOS applications in React-Native
● Extensive experience in building back-end systems for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users
● Solid understanding of cloud services (GCP & AWS);
● Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services.
Quality and Testing:
● Ability to write unit tests and participate in code reviews;
● Maintain code integrity and organization with a long-term vision in mind;
● Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of applications;
● A religious practice of using code versioning tools (primarily, Git).
Familiarity with AngularJS, ReactJS, HTML, CSS.
What’s in it for you?
● Ground-floor impact and working with zero technical debt.
● One of those rare opportunities where you can truly “leave a dent in the universe”.
● We are proudly participating in the MetLife Digital Accelerator Powered by Techstars. Techstars flips the start-up success rate to 90% from the usual 10%.
● Halos Insurance founding team is coming from 3 F100 insurance companies, 2 top management consulting firms, and a super successful AI start-up that pioneered automated machine learning.
● This is a contract-to-hire position with full potential to become a critical senior hire of the engineering team.
engineering team.
What we value in EVERY team-members:
● Curiosity and ability to solve hard problems (and sometimes unstructured, not so well-defined problems);
● Candid communication, responsiveness, extraordinary focus, intensity, and an ability to work in a demanding environment (and still smile and take care of each other);
● Love solving real customer problems with technology and data (and sometimes “through sheer force of will”);
● A belief in “good profit” — doing well by doing good (yes, we can make money while bringing a delightful experience to the consumers).
At Halos Insurance, we are expanding the purpose of insurance with digital transformation, machine learning, and humanity. We don’t want insurance to be one-size-fits-all or punitive. We want insurance to be personalized and loss-preventive. And, simply useful!
We are at the pre-product stage, participating at the Techstars accelerator, and inviting applications from software engineers (different stack/ different seniority level) as we build our founding engineering and design team. We are headquartered in Washington, DC, USA.