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Hi! My name is Chris, Iโm the CEO of 11Sigma, and Iโd like to invite you to join our team.\n\nWe started 11Sigma in 2018 with a vision of a world of opportunities and the freedom enabled by remote work.\n\n**We believe that remote work is a lifestyle**, itโs about the culture, values, and mindset, not a โcorporate benefitโ or a โpost-COVID realityโ.\n\nOur **three values: explore, be free, and contribute** define who we are, and what we do.\n\nOur dream is to build a company **open to everyone**, which supports you in experiencing an exciting, fulfilling life.\n\n**11Sigma is about exploring**. Both literal, as in a journey, as well as open-mindedness, self-growth, and curiosity of life and at work.\n\nWe are software engineers, travelers, digital nomads, caring parents, adventurers. We are internally-motivated problem solvers and contributors.\n\nTo us, life is an adventure, and the world is incredibly interesting. We are **hungry to learn new things and explore our potential.**\n\nTo find exciting work and open amazing opportunities we partner with tech startups that build incredible products and provide a healthy work-life balance. \n\nIf the above resonates with you, please read on.\n\n## Job Description\n\nYou will join the [11Sigma](https://11sigma.com) crew at [Briza](https://briza.com), our partner, series-A startup from Canada, recently raised $8M and is growing rapidly. You'll be working with 11Sigma and Briza engineers on creating a one-stop-shop product integrating multiple insurance carriers into a hustle-free service.\n\nThe challenge is to find effective ways to integrate APIs from insurance companies that often use slightly different language to describe similar things. That means the job requires excellent technical, analytical, and English skills. You will need to quickly understand domain-specific language and apply your knowledge to integrate new carriers as well as suggest and lead ways to optimize the process. As you may imagine, we are technically solving a complex classification problem in an industry that is waiting to be disrupted.\n\nThe product we are working on is revolutionizing the insurance market allowing brokers to get insurance offers from multiple carriers and purchase them directly through the Briza app. We deliver value to small business owners that can finally get insurance tailored to their needs in a matter of minutes, not weeks!\n\nBesides our web app, we also provide a developer API.\n\n### Personal Qualities\n\n* Internally motivated\n* Driven / passionate\n* Curious / problem solver\n* Self-reliant\n* Great people skills\n* Take ownership and drive innovation\n* Open-minded\n* Self-starter\n* Team-oriented and supportive\n\n## Skills & Experience\n\n### Required\n\n* TypeScript proficiency\n* 10+ years of experience in professional software development\n* Experience in building widely-consumed REST-based API platforms using Node.js / Typescript / similar programming languages\n* The ability to research and communicate your ideas in software design and architecture discussions\n* AWS experience\n* Experience in writing unit tests (we use Jest)\n* Exceptional English\n* Your primary location is in one of the following timezones: GMT-5, GMT-4, GMT-3, GMT-1, GMT, GMT+1, GMT+2\n\n### Nice To Have\n\n* Experience in writing automated tests (unit, integration) and strive to always do so\n* A knack for data modeling\n* Experience with functional programming\n* Prior C# or Go experience\n* Prior experience with insurance tech or fintech\n* Prior leadership experience\n* Prior fast-growth startup experience\n\n### Optional But Amazing\n\n* Conference talks experience\n* Blog author\n* OpenSource contributions\n\n## Key Responsibilities\n\n* Research, analyze and integrate third-party insurance carrier APIs.\n* Integrating some of the third-party APIs may require some reverse-engineering and thorough investigation.\n* Design, build and maintain an API platform, services, and systems with fellow product designers and developers.\n* Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.\n* Lead innovation and suggest improvements to our API integration processes as well as company-wide improvements.\n* Help onboarding new engineers.\n* Improve our engineering standards, tooling, and processes.\n* Communicate with stakeholders, team members, and third-party providers to clarify.\n\n### Our technology stack\n\n* API: Node.js + TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis\n* UI: Vue.js\n* Cloud infrastructure: AWS (Fargate, RDS, ElasticCache) through Terraform.\n* CI: Github Actions\n* CD: AWS CodeBuild & Codepipeline\n\n## Salary & Perks\nYou have an option to choose the currency:\n* 24000 - 31000 PLN + VAT\n* or $7000 - $9000 + VAT \n\nIt's a B2B contract (long-term), listed rates are per month, they are billed hourly (full-time engagement).\n\n### Perks\n\n* Explorer budget (annual budget for travel and adventure)\n* 10x-self budget (annual budget for home-office equipment, learning)\n* Epic retreats around the world\n* Dedicated self-growth mentor\n* Conferences around Europe\n* 100% remote company - live and work wherever you wish\n* Bonus 8h a month for 11Sigma growth-related agenda (contributing to 11Sigma blog, podcast, YT channel, etc)\n* Fully reimbursed Clifton Strengths Assessment to learn about your strengths \n* Paid 15 days off\n* Paid all public polish holidays\n\nFeel free to read more about our company at [https://11sigma.com](https://11sigma.com). \n\n## About Briza\n\nBriza is modernizing and transforming the commercial insurance industry. Our developer-friendly, API-first platform powers delightful business user experiences by efficiently gathering key information, generating multiple quotes, delivering insurance policies, and collecting payment in minutes. What once took days or weeks can now be completed and โoff the to-do listโ in just minutes.\n\nBriza is a Series A funded venture, based in Toronto Canada, with a talented international team of 24 and growing quickly.\n \n\nPlease mention the words **PRETTY SHARE WILL** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMy4xNDUuMjA2LjE2OQ==). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
$84,000 — $108,000/year\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide