Senior Software Engineer

Role Description

If you're looking for the stability of a profitable, growing company with the entrepreneurial spirit of a startup, we're hiring. SageSure, a leader in catastrophe-exposed property insurance, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Policy Onboarding and Home Services team. As a vital member of this team, you will own and evolve the backend services that power the post-bind policyholder journey - from account onboarding to inspection orchestration, hazard remediation, underwriting review, and proactive home-service offers. Your work directly impacts how policyholders experience SageSure after they purchase a policy, ensuring a seamless, reliable, and modern experience. You'll contribute to architectural decisions, bringing product requirements and business context into the conversation.

We operate a microservices-based SaaS platform on AWS and conduct a significant share of our business through APIs. If you have a passion for backend technologies, API design, and building resilient distributed systems and you want to see the real-world impact of your work - this is the role for you.

What you’d be doing:

• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to craft innovative capabilities in our API products, enabling the building blocks of new customer experiences.
• Design and implement modern Java services that connect our platform to integration partners, powering dynamic and user-friendly experiences.
• Make high-level technical and architectural decisions to ensure our solutions are secure, reliable, and scalable as we grow.
• Own features end-to-end from technical design and implementation through testing, deployment, and production monitoring.
• Make well-reasoned design decisions and tradeoffs in your domain, authoring technical design documents, API documentation, and architectural proposals.
• Develop testing suites and validation strategies including integration tests, to deliver complex outcomes while maintaining high software quality.
• Mentor other engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and design discussions to foster a culture of excellence and collaboration.
• Expand and evolve our integration strategy, connecting third-party contractor networks, service providers, and our internal underwriting systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience building and deploying software applications.
• Strong experience with Java and modern Java tooling for backend development.
• A proven track record of designing scalable, secure APIs and integration solutions.
• Experience mentoring and guiding engineering teams.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to collaborate across teams.
• A proactive, curious mindset with a passion for building technology that makes a tangible difference.

Requirements

• Highly preferred candidates also have experience working in Insurtech or Fintech environments.
• Experience with Temporal workflow orchestration.

Benefits

• We are continually innovating with modern tools and technologies, and we welcome new perspectives.
• An ideal candidate will have a passion for some of our key technologies and advocate pragmatic industry practices around availability, scalability, security, and automation.
• A cloud-based infrastructure, continuous integration and delivery, and a quality-first approach help us to better deliver software.
• A metrics-driven mindset has become part of our DNA and helps us make data-driven decisions.