Staff Software Engineer, Nodal (Remote)

Salary: $117,500 - 222,985 per year Requirements:

• 10+ years of relevant software development experience.
• Strong programming or scripting skills in languages such as Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and SQL.
• Experience with React and TypeScript; Next.js experience is preferred.
• 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 other containerized application development.
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Terraform.
• Understanding of Agile practices such as Scrum and experience across the full software development lifecycle.
• Strong technical design, problem-solving, and debugging skills.
• Experience with domain-driven design, microservices, event-driven architecture, REST API design, and writing testable code, including unit and integration tests.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work independently and with a team.
• Ability to interpret and implement business and functional requirements and translate client needs, claims workflows, and claims expertise into product requirements.
• Understanding of test automation and secure software development, especially when handling sensitive or regulated data.
• Curiosity, openness to new ideas, commitment to continuous learning, and an informed understanding of software engineering practices and emerging technologies.
• Ability to break down complex technical and business problems, collaborate across functions, and contribute to a positive, high-performing team culture.
• Preferred: Continued education or advanced degrees, experience with HIPAA or other sensitive data, SaaS or P&C insurance, cloud certifications, test-driven development, event-driven system design, AI and machine learning concepts or platforms such as Databricks, and durable background jobs, queues, workers, or asynchronous processing.

• Design, develop, and improve software solutions that address business challenges.
• Contribute to architecture, design, and planning for new features and system capabilities.
• Collaborate with data scientists, data engineers, actuaries, and subject-matter experts.
• Integrate data science, AI or agent outputs, and model-driven insights into production application workflows.
• Build and maintain unit, integration, and automated tests to support high-quality code.
• Manage work in line with project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables, and help the team meet sprint goals through independent work and collaboration.
• Participate in code reviews to promote quality, maintainability, and sound engineering practices.
• Support and improve deployment pipelines and release processes.
• Help evaluate and implement security, encryption, sensitive-data handling, and other platform technologies.
• Architect and build modern front-end applications using React/TypeScript, including Next.js, and backend API services using Django and REST.
• Support backend workflows for asynchronous or long-running integrations as needed.
• Design, optimize, and maintain SQL databases.
• Document code, architectures, and features to support long-term maintainability.
• Use GitHub and GitFlow in a collaborative development environment.

• AI
• API
• AWS
• Architect
• Azure
• Backend
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Databricks
• Django
• Docker
• GitHub
• Support
• JavaScript
• Machine Learning
• Python
• REST
• React
• SQL
• Security
• Terraform
• TypeScript
• Web
• microservices
• DDD
• LESS
• TDD

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We are Milliman IntelliScript, a few hundred specialists spanning actuarial science, information technology, and clinical practice. As a unit of Milliman, Inc., a global consultancy, we build data-driven SaaS products for insurance, health IT, and life sciences clients. Our collaborative, entrepreneurial team develops Nodal, a SaaS platform that uses AI to analyze structured and unstructured data, predict P&C claims risk, and support early interventions. This Staff Software Engineer role helps advance products focused on efficiency, compliance, and measurable client value. We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive health and financial benefits, paid time off, training, mentoring, career-development opportunities, and employee-led resource groups. The position is remote anywhere in the US, with travel to our Brookfield, Wisconsin office as needed and nationwide travel for meetings and events. The overall salary range is $117,500–$222,985, with location-dependent ranges; the expected application deadline is January 31, 2027.

last updated 40 week of 2026