Description
Accelerant is building a new platform that will serve as the backbone of how risk is exchanged in the future. The Product & Technology team is looking for an architect who is passionate about architecting high-quality and scalable software systems. As a Software Architect, you will play a crucial role in architecting, designing, and developing robust systems that power our platform.
If you join our team, these are some of the things you’ll be doing:
- Working closely with engineers, product managers, product designers, and other stakeholders to understand project requirements and design solutions that meet business needs.
- Taking the lead on architecting and designing new product features to keep engineering teams unblocked and accelerate product delivery.
- Hands on development activities including prototyping new capabilities, jumping in to help investigate complex issues, and helping the team accelerate important deliverables.
- Fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
What you bring to the table:
- Experience building and scaling web applications.
- Extensive knowledge of software architecture principles, design patterns, and best practices.
- Strong coding ability.
- Passionate problem-solving mindset.
- Reputation for getting things done.
- Strong sense of ownership.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience with cloud technologies, microservices architecture, and distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
Desired qualifications:
- Experience with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience with orchestration technologies like Kubernetes.
- Experience with SQL-Like databases and data caching strategies such as Postgres, Snowflake, and Redis.
- Experience with Typescript.
- Understanding of modern JavaScript frameworks.
About Accelerant:
Accelerant is a data-driven, technology-fueled insurance platform that empowers underwriters to more effectively serve their insureds. We’re using advanced data intelligence tools to rebuild the way that underwriters share and exchange risk. With a current focus on the small and medium-sized businesses that power our global economy and their niche insurance needs, we align incentives to improve outcomes for everyone. Our full-service risk exchange supports our carefully selected, best-in-class network of underwriting teams. We leverage granular information on each policy to deliver unprecedented insight into insurance pools, and our specialty portfolio is fully diversified with very low catastrophe, aggregation or systemic risk. We’re proud to have been awarded an AM Best A- (Excellent) rating. For more information, please visit www.accelerant.ai.
Accelerant is a fully remote company. Work where you’re most productive and fulfilled. This position is open to remote candidates across the U.S., Canada, UK, and Europe, who have the flexibility to work with our teams distributed across Europe and North America. Most cross-team collaboration happens in the mornings of the Eastern Time Zone.
To apply, please contact Jennifer.french@accelins.com