Thimble is a leading insurtech platform for small business customers and agents. Thimble allows customers to quickly get insurance coverage by the job, month or year using its award-winning app, website, or over the phone.

Founded by serial entrepreneurs Jay Bregman and Eugene Hertz, Thimble works with a variety of carriers to bring the best insurance solutions to small businesses, brokers and agents. Since it was founded, Thimble has delivered more than 170,000 policies to small businesses across the United States.

Thimble was acquired by Arch Insurance, a unit of Arch Capital Group Ltd. (Nasdaq: ACGL), a publicly listed Bermuda exempted company with approximately $15.6 billion in capital at Dec. 31, 2022. Arch, which is part of the S&P 500 Index, provides insurance, reinsurance and mortgage insurance on a worldwide basis through its wholly owned subsidiaries.

Thimble's innovative culture and technical expertise are an incredible addition to Arch Capital’s portfolio of offerings. The acquisition expands Arch’s suite of digital solutions for small business customers and brokers. Thimble will remain a separate subsidiary, working closely with the Arch Group team.

For more information, visit thimble.com.

Our unique culture is built around our six core values:

Be relentlessly creative. Question everything. Get to know the rules so well, you can use them in new ways. Be the industry’s compliant radicals.

Act. Move forward. Learn. You can only make a decision based on the best information you have – so make it.

Be ruthlessly precise. Disciplined. Sweat the small stuff.

Simplify, Simplify, Simplify

Get to the point. Make it crystal clear. Cut everything else. It’s our job to make insurance easy – however hard that is for us.

Show up early and ready. Deliver on time or before. Make the most of your time, so others can make the most of theirs.

Treat every person, and their ideas, with respect. Cherish diversity.

Reporting to the SVP of Engineering, the Lead Backend Software Engineer will lead the design, development, and maintenance of our innovative direct to consumer insurance product. You will have responsibility for both learning the current code base and architecture as well as continuing to innovate by building out additional new products. Besides our consumer product, you will also own our Broker Portal, Compliance Platform, and our Open API, as well as supporting both Android and iOS Apps.

This is a role where you should be comfortable making engineering and architectural decisions, helping to build out a team of backend developers, being both a mentor to junior programmers as well as a hands-on producer, and working closely with both Product and Front-end engineers.

· Lead high-level decision making for software development; oversee the “big picture” software architecture

· Create architectural approaches for software design/implementation to guide development team

· Determine design choices based on technical standards (platforms, coding standards) by considering insurance business requirements/compliance regulations by state and carriers

· Use scalable computing systems/frameworks (Hadoop, elastic search)

· Perform software development/coding in multiple programming languages (node.js, java, C#, objective-c, swift)

· Use cloud services (AWS, GCP, RDS, Athena, S3, kinesis, SQS, SNS)

· Use Docker containers and Kubernetes (automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications)

· Coordinate with software architects and engineers to ensure all solutions/implementations follow correct standards

· Work with business representatives to discuss their custom software requirements; use tools and methodologies to create representations for functions and user interface of desired products

· Develop high-level product specifications with attention to system integration and feasibility

· Define all aspects of development from appropriate technology choices and workflow to coding standards

· Oversee progress of development team to ensure consistency with initial design

· Provide technical guidance and coaching to developers and engineers

· Ensure software meets all requirements (quality, security, modifiability, extensibility, etc.) and supervise others in performing their duties

· Experience working across the complete product stack, preferably experience in node.js, and MongoDB as the database

· Experience working within an API microservice frameworks

· Experience as a lead developer with some management and mentoring experience

· Experience working with onshore and offshore engineering teams a plus

· Demonstrated experience and passion for inheriting legacy software and making it your own

· Experience working hand in hand with product and other stakeholders to deliver complex products in precision environments with little room for error

· Knowledge of software engineering best practices, cybersecurity, as well as specific technologies such as node.js, java, Objective-C, Mongo, AWS

· Experience working with microservices architectures & cloud native services

· Solid understanding of software design principles, concurrency, synchronization, memory management, data structures, algorithms, etc.

· Demonstrated knowledge of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology and coding methods/best practices.

· Bonus points for knowledge of the cyber security domain.

· 7+ years of development experience

· 4+ years of experience with cloud computing solutions implementations (AWS preferred)

· 3+ years of experience in leading teams to deliver high-quality products on time

-Fully remote company

-Thimble Fridays! (out of office at 12:00pm local time)

-Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage

-PTO: 20 days vacation, 8 floating days, 10 company-wide holidays, 1 VTO (Volunteer Time Off), and unlimited sick time

-Parental Leave: 100% paid 12 weeks + 2 weeks gradual return

-Company computer hardware of your choice

-Work from home setup reimbursement

-Monthly co-working space and/or child care reimbursement

-Monthly ClassPass credit

-Quarterly wellness reimbursement

-Other health & wellness perks including: One Medical, Teladoc, Talkspace, Kindbody, and Health Advocate

-Virtual events, happy hours, trivia, and fun!