Staff Software Engineer
Technology
Job Description
Job Summary
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The Staff Software Engineer will play a pivotal role in delivering innovative technology solutions for the insurance industry. This role offers a unique opportunity to be entrepreneurial and innovative within a stable, reputable organization—without the risks of a startup. We are seeking someone who can help accelerate client’s growth by delivering products that drive efficiency, compliance, and measurable value for our clients.
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Responsibilities
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- Design, develop, and enhance software solutions that solve business challenges
- Contribute to the architecture, design, and planning of new features and system capabilities
- Collaborate closely with data scientists, data engineers, actuaries, and subject-matter experts
- Help integrate data science, AI/agent outputs, and model-driven insights into production application workflows
- Build and maintain unit, integration, and automated tests to ensure high-quality code
- Manage your workload responsibly with an eye toward project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Help the team achieve sprint goals through independent work and cross-functional collaboration
- Participate in code reviews to uphold quality, maintainability, and best practices
- Support and improve deployment pipelines and release processes
- Assist in evaluating and implementing security, encryption, sensitive-data handling, and other platform-level technologies
- Architect and implement modern front-end frameworks (React/TypeScript) including Next.js, and robust backend API services (Django, REST).
- Support backend workflows for asynchronous or long-running integrations where needed
- Design, optimize, and maintain SQL databases
- Document code, architectures, and features to ensure long-term maintainability
- Use GitHub and GitFlow confidently in a collaborative development environment
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Qualifications
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- 10+ years of relevant software development experience
- Strong experience in software development using programming or scripting languages such as Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL
- Experience with React, TypeScript, and preferably Next.js.
- Experience building backend API services with Django, REST, or similar Python web frameworks
- Cloud development experience with Azure and/or AWS
- Experience with Docker or containerized application development
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable, efficient CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Terraform
- Understanding of Agile practices (e.g. Scrum)
- Experience with full software development lifecycle
- Excellent technical design, problem solving, and debugging skills
- Experience with:
- Domain driven design
- Microservice architecture
- Event-driven architecture
- REST API design
- Writing testable code, unit tests, integration tests, etc.
- Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- Proven ability to interpret and implement business and functional requirements
- Ability to translate clients' business needs, claims workflows, and claims expertise into actionable product requirements
- Understanding of the value of test automation and a desire to incorporate it in development practice
- Understanding of secure software development practices, especially when working with sensitive or regulated data
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Required
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- Continued education and/or advanced degree(s)
- Experience in environments subject to HIPAA and other sensitive data
- Experience in insurance industry
- Cloud certifications preffered
- Experience with test driven development
- Experience in designing systems using event-driven architecture
- Familiarity with AI and machine learning concepts (such as model explainability, agent-based integrations, or platforms like Databricks), and comfort building software that works alongside them
- Experience with durable background jobs, queues, workers, or asynchronous processing patterns
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