Our company specializes in small-to-mid commercial property and casualty insurance through our local and national network.

We are one of the longest continuously operating companies in California

We believe offer our employees’ healthy work-life balance, including a 4-day work week and generous benefit package.

Seeking a Solutions Architect with a proven track record of planning and delivering mission critical software to production

Solutions Architect with a proven track record of planning and delivering mission critical software to production

Our current technical stack consists of applications running on or backed by Docker, NGINX, PHP 7, mySQL, Javascript (VueJS), Redis, and COBOL. This role is a critical part of our product team primarily focused on managing and developing containerized, consumer-facing, web-based applications written in PHP and using the Laravel framework, with interfaces to a legacy back-office system, written in COBOL and running on an IBM iSeries (AS400). Familiarity with iSeries application programming interfaces is a major plus.

Responsibilities:

• Gather and document requirements
• Developing functional specifications
• Lead a small team of software engineers
• Build new features from the ground up
• Maintain and upgrade existing code
• Communicate with stakeholders across multiple departments
• Develop plans and schedules for delivering features efficiently
• Recommend products and processes to improve security and efficiency
• Provide regular updates to company leadership
• Explain complex problems to stakeholders in layman’s terms

• 3+ years developing and designing production applications written in PHP
• 2+ years leading software development teams consisting of at least 2 other developers
• Experience developing applications in Laravel
• Excellent written and oral communication
• Experience planning and documenting complex data structures
• Experience managing CI/CD workflows that deploy Docker containers
• Experience with memory-based datastores such as Redis and Memcache in a production setting

Desirable Additional Skills

• Knowledge of PHP Toolkit for IBM i
• DevOps experience a plus
• Insurance or financial industry knowledge

We look forward to receiving your application!
- Local Candidates preferred

- No relocation

- No 3rd party Candidates
- Unable to sponsor H1-b
- EEO/AA M/F/V/D