Front End Software Engineer

Next Insurance • Boston, MA

14h • Hybrid

About The Position

ERGO NEXT's mission is to help entrepreneurs thrive. We’re doing that by building the only technology-led, full-stack provider of small business insurance in the industry, taking on the entire value chain and transforming the customer experience. Simply put, wherever you find small businesses, you’ll find ERGO NEXT. Since 2016, we’ve helped hundreds of thousands of small business customers across the United States get fast, customized and affordable coverage. We’re backed by industry leaders in insurance and tech, and we still have room to grow — that’s where you come in. As an engineering growth engineering group, you’ll not only get deep into coding on a day-to-day basis, but you will be in a position to drive technical decisions, mentor other developers, and influence the future of our front-end vision and technologies. If you are fanatical about growing your skills this is the role for you. Do you enjoy creating something new and solving problems in ways that have never been attempted? Do you want to grow your career by working side-by-side with trailblazing software engineers? Do you see yourself in a culture where you are valued, challenged, and respected?

Requirements

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject or equivalent demonstrated experience
• 3+ years of experience with web application development
• Understanding of design principles and user interface guidelines
• Mastery of modern web development (Javascript, HTML5, CSS3)
• Stay up to date with modern industry tools and emerging technologies, including AI-driven frameworks and workflows, and help evaluate how they can be applied effectively.
• Demonstrated success building dynamic, responsive applications using Angular, RxJS, Node
• Demonstrated success developing and consuming APIs and microservices to facilitate data access, business logic, and workflow (RESTful services, JSON, GraphQL)
• Experience with SQL Server, MySQL

Responsibilities

• Leverage AI and LLM-powered tools to improve developer productivity, experimentation, and front-end user experiences.
• Design and develop dynamic, responsive, and interactive web applications
• Translate requirements, wireframes, and conceptual designs into high quality, visually appealing, and intuitive user interfaces and user experiences
• Take ownership of front-end components and drive continual expansion, reuse, and improvement across the board
• Integrate with back-end infrastructure, mostly cloud-based
• Analyze and solve problems across all levels of the stack
• Produce clean, secure, testable, maintainable, reusable, well-documented code, and participate in and drive regular code reviews
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability

Benefits

• NEXT employees are eligible for our benefits package, consisting of our partially subsidized medical plan, fully subsidized vision/dental options, life insurance, disability insurance, 401(k), flexible paid time off, parental leave and more.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level