Frontend Developer

About OTTO

OTTO Quotes has an immediate opening for a Senior Front End Developer. The Otto Insurance Platform generates, manages, and optimizes quality, ready-to-close, exclusive insurance leads directly to agents and carriers in real-time. We are a digital broker for Auto, Home, Pet, Commercial, and Life Insurance. Our focus is to create the most seamless and unobtrusive user experience from the first click to policy being closed.

About The Role

Our primary work focuses on lead generation for an in-house insurtech platform that has helped millions of people get quotes from multiple insurance companies. Our small core team of engineers have worked across many products. One of those projects is the ground-up creation of the OTTO platform and scaling it successfully over the last few years. This role will work with existing team members to continue the work.

Key Responsibilities

• Build new features and maintain OTTO?s core platforms
• Uphold quality through test-driven development
• Review and merge code to production
• Support and mentor peers through code reviews and acknowledge sharing
• Collaborate with stakeholders and backend engineers to understand requirements and implement them
• Write code that is clean, high performing, well-documented and secure

Qualifications

• 5 + years of experience
• Proficient in Next.js, React.js, Javascript, Typescript
• Experience building and deploying interactive UIs to cloud environments (e.g. Vercel, AWS, etc)
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and debugging skills
• Autonomous and self-motivated

Our tech stack:

• PHP for backend API and data processing
• Javascript with React for front-end
• Aurora/AWS data infrastructure

A Word on Imposter Syndrome

We understand that looking for a new job can be a stressful experience and that it?s easy for imposter syndrome to stop qualified people from applying for a position where they don?t check every box. If you read the job listing and feel like you want to work for us, please apply. The whole team is dedicated to help train the right person to fit into this role and start a career in technology or product management.