Senior Full Stack Engineer

Description:

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer at Hagerty, you will be working within an agile software team engineering solution to complex problems. You’re perfect for this role if you have passion for learning, giving and receiving feedback, and can have fun solving problems. This role will be based in our Traverse City, MI office or work from home.

Ready to get in the driver’s seat? Join us! 

What You’ll Do

Develop well-documented, scalable, and resilient software by: 

Setting the standard for and mentoring your team on technical development
Evaluating, and understanding the tradeoffs of existing software development lifecycle tools (SDLC) and recommending the replacement and improvement as necessary.
Contributing to architectural design given overall architectural guidance, with little to some assistance
Developing and designing comprehensive and automated unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, while understanding appropriate use of each test type.

Own and support features, modules, and products by: 

Participating in the on-call support rotation for team’s production services.
Being a steward of your product. Take initiative to show teammates how to take a story from inception to providing value for the customer in production. Establish and evolve team standards to ensure you create maintainable code that is well tested with quality in mind as you work.
Ensuring the overall health of the product by defining and enforcing team guidelines
Steer the direction of the team’s products using your deep understanding of its existing state and designing improvements

Contribute to and engage in a collaborative environment by: 

Being an active participant in all team activities. Actively listen with the intent of gaining understanding. Coach team members to demonstrate empathy and learn how others best communicate. Assume everyone is acting with best intentions. Share opinions, but create space to draw opinions from others, and support aligning to decisions.
Creating a healthy, productive work environment through mutual respect. Set the tone by making time to pair with others, making decisions with imperfect information, and inviting others to join you as you work.
Asking for help when you need it. Go out of your way to provide help when someone comes to you. Know the difference between something you can reasonably figure out on your own and when you are blocked. Make asking for help an action that is encouraged and supported by being willing to be vulnerable publicly. Leverage relationships across the organization to find solutions.
Understanding we can only succeed together by responding to the needs of others. Give context to your team to understand the roles within your team and how they contribute to success. Build strong relationships across the organization by offering help, following through on commitments, acting with integrity, and help align team members to support organizational decisions.

Practice and promote a growth mindset by: 

Living and supporting a culture of continuous growth by taking what you have learned and coaching others. You are the trend-setter for good habits and behaviors on the team. Others perceive your continual dedication to advancing the company and your own knowledge. It's not enough for you to simply learn, but you seek opportunities to teach others and get joy from developing others.
Understanding what the tech stack is, how to stay current within the stack, knowing the relevant history of the technology and why its evolved to present day, and reacting to changes in the technical landscape to help insulate the organization from negative externalities.
Understanding that failure is a necessary part of growth. Leverage your ability to fail fast to achieve the desired results. Make taking measured risks part of team culture. Regularly and openly share with others how your failures have led to growth.

This might describe you:

Worked on at least 5 major applications implementing front end and server-side technologies including Next.js, TypeScript, React, Node.js and AWS cloud services such as Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, etc.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or other relevant technical field (CIS, Mathematics, etc.) or equivalent work experience
Expert designing, developing, and documenting Restful and GraphQL APIs
Expert with Terraform IaC
Expert implementing build & deployment pipelines and configuring quality gates using Azure DevOps or a similar platform
Expert in the full HTTP request lifecycle and able to diagnose performance issues
Expert in CI/CD best practices and how to apply them to your advantage
Expert with modern testing frameworks utilizing Cypress, Playwright, React Testing Library + Jest, Vitest, or similar
Expert with development tooling, including the use of browser-based dev tools
Expert with API documentation tools such as Postman and feature flagging platforms such as Split.io
Expert knowledge of data structures, algorithms and software design principles (OOP, SOLID, KISS, etc.)
Expert working with AWS cloud architecture and working knowledge of BFF architecture patterns
Experience with content management solutions or platforms such as Contentful
Possess attention to detail, an eye for design and genuine care about the user experience
Comfortable working in a remote environment, collaborating via Zoom, Slack, etc.
Thrives in a collaborative environment, ensuring the right solution is achieved even if it isn’t your own
Write code that satisfies requirements and adheres to standards and best practices and collaborates effectively with your scrum team to deliver great software
Participates in all aspects of agile software development life-cycle
Independently investigates and solves complex technical problems, including bringing new ideas forward 
Creates and organizes technical documentation