Socotra
Socotra is focused on building the most modern cloud-based platform for technology-driven insurers. We are re-imagining and re-inventing technology for one of the world’s largest and most technologically neglected industries. Our vision is to become the technology platform that powers insurance businesses everywhere.
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Backend Engineer San Francisco, CA, United States
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DevOps San Francisco, CA, United States
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Full-Stack Engineer San Francisco, CA, United States or Remote
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Full-Stack Engineer East Bay, CA, United States, San Francisco, CA, United States, Silicon Valley, CA, United States, or Remote
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Principal Platform Engineer San Francisco, CA, United States or Remote
Why join us?
Well funded by well-known investors. 8VC, Founders Fund, SV Angel, Vulcan Capital, Crunch Fund, Nationwide
Building needed infrastructure in a very big industry with no significant competitors
Great people!
Engineering at Socotra
Git Flow /Kubernetes, 2-week sprints with retro Flat Engineering Org/ VP of Engineering, one scrum team, majority of backend specialists, + specialist in FE, QA and DeVOps Mostly monolith / Mostly JVM AWS EKS
Modernizing legacy industry software with modern cloud infrastructure Transitioning monolith to microservices Delivering productized software for insuretech as a platform
Data management (MySQL @scale) API Ergonomics (REST semantics) via JSON Leveraging best practices & RFC's Transforming delivery expectations from yearly to daily
Lucene based search of structured policy/claim data
Analytical treatment of events sourced from insurance transactions
Elastic Search, Kafka, NoSQL data migration in production
Working at Socotra
- Pragmatic
- Transparent
- Accountable
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Relocation
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Team Activities
Game night, movie night, meetups
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Health Insurance
Meaningful equity at an early stage company Daily catered lunch and countless snacks Great location in San Francisco's SOMA district (close to public transport) Top-tier health benefits Fitness stipend Commuter benefits Fun team offsites (past examples: skiing in Tahoe, Yosemite summer trip, cocktail class, baseball games, and more)
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Maternal/Paternal Leave
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Company Retreats
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Free Food
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Gym/Fitness
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Generous Vacation
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Beautiful Office
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