Full Stack Software Engineer

Accelerant Re Ltd.; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

Location: Remote - US, Canada, UK, and Europe

Accelerant is building a new platform that will serve as the backbone of how risk is exchanged in the future. The Product & Technology team is looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer who is passionate about building high quality software systems that are valued by customers.

If you join our team, here are some of the things you’ll be doing:

• Working closely with peer engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand project requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
• Developing new frontend and backend features that help make our customers successful.
• Writing backend code in Typescript that is fully unit tested.
• Writing frontend code in Svelte, optimizing the frontend codebase for speed, efficiency, maintainability, and scalability.
• Moving fast, while taking the time to ship high-quality code.

What you bring to the table:

• Experience building and scaling web applications.
• Strong coding ability.
• Passionate problem-solving mindset.
• Reputation for getting things done.
• Strong sense of ownership.
• Desire to learn and grow.

Desired qualifications:

• Experience with Typescript.
• Experience with Svelte, web components, or equivalent component model.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, and databases such as Postgres and Snowflake.
• Experience with SQL-Like databases and data caching strategies such as Postgres, Snowflake, and Redis.

About Accelerant:

Accelerant is a data-driven, technology-fueled insurance platform that empowers underwriters to more effectively serve their insureds. We’re using advanced data intelligence tools to rebuild the way that underwriters share and exchange risk. With a current focus on the small and medium-sized businesses that power our global economy and their niche insurance needs, we align incentives to improve outcomes for everyone. Our full-service risk exchange supports our carefully selected, best-in-class network of underwriting teams. We leverage granular information on each policy to deliver unprecedented insight into insurance pools, and our specialty portfolio is fully diversified with very low catastrophe, aggregation or systemic risk. We’re proud to have been awarded an AM Best A- (Excellent) rating. For more information, please visit www.accelerant.ai.

Accelerant is a fully remote company. Work where you’re most productive and fulfilled. This position is open to remote candidates across the U.S., Canada, UK, and Europe, who have the flexibility to work with our teams distributed across Europe and North America. Most cross-team collaboration happens in the mornings of the Eastern Time Zone.