Backend Software Engineer

Location: Waltham, MA (hybrid)

NEXT’s mission is to help entrepreneurs thrive. We’re doing that by building the only technology-led, full-stack provider of small business insurance in the industry, taking on the entire value chain and transforming the customer experience. 

Simply put, wherever you find small businesses, you’ll find NEXT.

Since 2016, we’ve helped hundreds of thousands of small business customers across the United States get fast, customized and affordable coverage. We’re backed by industry leaders in insurance and tech, and we still have room to grow — that’s where you come in. 

This position will be the lead back end API developer for a new platform to serve our ever increasing customer base. Architecture, design, and coding from idea to deployment will be required. This position will also provide technical support to our internal business units and customers as needed. The programming duties are primarily server side but full-stack web application experience is a plus.

What You’ll Do: 

• Design and build enterprise REST API’s and services that perform various insurance operations
• Work with the product team to groom requirements and present scalable design’s to architects for approval and implement end to end solutions
• Provide product support, triage and resolve issues of high priority
• Support FE engineering by providing API’s they can interact with
• Take ownership of backend-end components and drive continual expansion, reuse, and improvement across the board
• Integrate with other back-end infrastructure, mostly cloud-based
• Analyze and solve problems across all levels of the stack
• Produce clean, secure, testable, maintainable, reusable, well-documented code, and participate in and drive regular code reviews
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability

What We Need: 

• 3-5 years of server-side development experience in Java/Kotlin, or similar languages (Python, .NET, Golang)
• Experience designing, building and documenting REST APIs with JAX-RS
• Experience working with and building with microservices architecture
• Experience with ORM frameworks (JPA, Hibernate, OpenJPA)
• Automated build platforms/continuous integration experience and knowledge (Bamboo, Jenkins, Hudson, Maven, Gradle)
• Knowledge of high-availability, high-performance, high-scalability web application development
• Able to jump into new or existing code bases & learn new technologies and skills quickly
• Experience refactoring existing code to improve readability, code reuse, performance, and maintainability
• Ability to communicate with business users to identify problems and offer creative solutions
• Experience working on high-performing teams and are accustomed to shipping code that is widely used and you can iterate to incorporate user feedback
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject or equivalent demonstrated experience

Unstoppable Qualities: 

• You are passionate about coding
• You care equally about what should be done and how it should be done
• You know how to build an enterprise web application from scratch
• Focus on quality and simplicity
• Team player, strong communication skills, and empathetic
• You make things as simple as possible but not simpler
• You never stop improving
• Experience in complex business domains including financial services or insurance a plus