Position: Back-End Team Lead (Poland Location)
Company: SD Solutions
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Vesttoo is the world’s first marketplace for Life and P&C insurance-based risk transfer and investments. Our proprietary AI-based technology facilitates risk transfer between insurance companies and institutional investors, providing insurance-linked investments to asset managers of all types, while enhancing risk transfer and liquidity in the Life and P&C insurance markets.

Our platform facilitates risk transfer to the capital markets with a faster time to market, providing insurers with an affordable, accurate alternative or supplement to traditional reinsurance with unlimited capacity from the capital market. 

We collaborate with leaders in the field to build alternative reinsurance transactions covering a variety of Life and P&C insurance risks in transparent, data-driven alternative reinsurance and retrocession deals. 

Our proprietary AI-based Machine Learning models are accepted by regulators and externally audited by Milliman and EY. Vesttoo was selected to participate in IBM Alpha Zone, Citigroup Accelerator, Plug and Play, and Fintech Innovation Lab – all prestigious fintech accelerators, and most recently NVIDIA's inception program.

**What will you do with us?**

- Lead and mentor a team of talented backend engineers while defining the team’s development standards and metrics.
- Work closely with our product team and translate product and business requirements into tools and solutions while focusing on developer experience.
- Lead the platform design and architecture.
- Lead the implementation of core features such as modules, data pipelines, and services.

**What hard skills do we need?**

- Experience with Microservices implementation, including APIs.
- 5+ years of backend programming experience in a microservices’ architecture in a cloud environment
- 2+ years of programming experience in Node.js or equivalent.
- 2+ years in an R&D management position.
- Experience writing high-quality, testable, and reusable code under a source control environment.
- Understanding of DevOps processes.
- Experience working with Databases.
- B.Sc. degree in Computer Science/related field or equivalent experience.
- Experience in cloud environments (*preferable* AWS).
- Ability to design, research, and implement large and complex architectures.
- Deep understanding of best practices in scalable server-side architecture.

Advantages:

- Experience with cloud architecture.
- Experience with JavaScript and web APIs.
- Experience working in a startup company.
- Experience with GIT.

 What soft skills do we appreciate?

- Self-starter and can learn new technology and tools quickly.

**Frequently asked questions:**

**- What language do we speak?**
The team is international, so we use English to communicate. 
    
**- Why was this position open?**
It’s a new position opened in case of widening and development of a new product. 
    
**- What is my career growth perspective on this position?**
Your perspectives fully depend on your willingness.
    
**- What is the team’s size and structure?**
For now, there are around 10 developers in the team. We’re going to staff a team consisting of 4 engineers and 1 team lead. 
    
**- How old is the company?**
The company was founded in 2018. 
    
**- What is the product stage now?**
 The company has a product that has been already functioning and also a new one that is under development (the same principle but improved infrastructure and features).

**Why should you join us?**

✅ To create exceptional things with passionate people!
✅ Minimal bureaucracy and result of your work seen on the spot.
✅ We provide all you require for working for an international company.
✅ Fast hiring process and responsive and professional recruiters.

**Our hiring process:**

0-  Prescreening interview (20 m). We will tell you about the company and the position. You will tell about yourself so that we can check your English level and some soft-skills. Carried by one of SD Solutions recruiters.
1- Introduction call (30 min).
2- Technical interview (1.5 hours).
3- Final technical interview (1.5 hours).