Us in A Nutshell:
BizCover is Australias leading B2B InsureTech provider and our business is all about giving small businesses a fair go when it comes to getting their insurance sorted. Weve been around for 10 years, and during that time weve shaken up the industry and changed the way small businesses buy their insurance, by cutting out the jargon and making it simple to understand, making it easy to compare and buy insurance online and offering clear and competitive pricing. We have big ambitions, and to support these ambitions we are on the lookout for great talent.
Reasons Youll Enjoy Working with Us:
First and foremost, we are industry leaders, and whilst we have been around a few years we still offer all the fun of working for a start-up - without the risk! Our business is constantly innovating, evolving and expanding, in fact we are already in the US and New Zealand, which means there is always plenty of opportunity for you. And the icing on the cake - you will also have the privilege of working with an incredibly talented, smart and diverse team.
What Will Keep You Busy:
You would be joining our growing engineering team and will help shape our future tech stack. Its a blank canvas at the moment so there is a lot of scope to innovate. We encourage everyone to contribute towards the technical direction and value people voicing their opinions and committing to a decision. The initial project will be building a new digital consumer experience that will provide a best in class insurance comparison and application process for a global business. Your experience in building microservices leveraging cloud technologies will be invaluable. The company is growing rapidly and with that there will be new opportunities in the future with regards to your role and responsibilities. This is a technical lead role so you will not be responsible for people management. You will be leading technical initiatives and be a someone that people can bounce their ideas off on.
Your Knowledge and Experience
There is a huge opportunity for someone to make a difference in this role but execution and delivery of projects is essential, we need someone is/has -
Passionate about development.
Built applications for large number of users and dealing with the challenges this brings.
Good understanding of design patterns such as MVC and why and when to use them.
Works in a structured logical way and doesn't just jump into new tech without fully understanding it.
Previous experience setting up patterns for other engineers to follow and provide mentoring to the wider team will be critical.
You would also have previous experience designing the application architecture for teams you've worked in.
We're starting our journey to building microservices/apps so you would have good experience with this.
Worked in Agile Scrum environment
Solid understanding of software delivery processes and tools (i.e. distributed version control systems, CI/CD)
Functional understanding of cloud services (AWS)
Recognise the importance of high quality code through non negotiables like unit tests, integration/acceptance tests, performant, secure,
robust clean code, etc.
Solid understanding of relational databases and ORMs (SQL Server and Entity Framework)
Your Competitive Edge:
Experience of working in a similar role in a FinTech/InsureTech/Start-up venture or someone who has proven experience in a large corporation on a web platform that has a large user base and has experience in delivering innovative projects.
The technical stuff
Must have
Strong .Net 4.0+, C#, Web API
SQL (SQL Server/Oracle/MySQL/etc)
Docker
Automated testing frameworks (eg. NUnit)
Preferred
.Net Core
CI/CD (TeamCity, Kubernetes, Git, Nuget, NPM)
AWS / Azure / Google Cloud experienceAWS Lambda/ECS/Kinesis/SQS
Redis
App monitoring (AppDynamics/Dynatrace/Splunk)
Nice to haves
NoSQL
Windows Services
Personal characteristics
Good communicator
Strong attention to detail with the ability to approach problems in a logical and structured method
Collaborate effectively with other team members
Proactive work ethic and to always be looking for ways to add value
You proactively seek knowledge about new tools and technologies to find better solutions to technical problems
Continuous Improvement mindset. If you think something can be improved you will speak your mind and provide a real way forward to achieve this.
Active involvement in the developer community, for example open source contributions, blogging and participation in meetups
Some of the Perks
Generous training budget for you to use as you wish
Provided with MacBook Pro or alternative
Fruit bowls twice a weel
Flexible working
Team/company events
Games area with Table tennis, Sofas, PS4, chess
Casual dress code
Hackathons
This Job May Be For You If:
You thrive working in a fast paced, creative and fun environment, and enjoy working with a melting pot of cultures and personalities. To excel in this role you will also-
Be a Customer Fanatic at the heart of everything we do the customer should come first
Do what we say we are going to do Strategy is important, but execution is everything
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