Senior Software Engineer

Find your next opportunity today. Senior Software Engineer Pasadena, CAna Employment Type: Perm Job Number: 25944Remote Options: RemoteJob DescriptionSenior Software Engineer – Full Stack, AI & E-Commerce Location: Fully Remote (U.S.) Compensation: $150,000–$200,000 annually, based on experience Employment Type: Full-Time, Direct Hire About the Company Our client is a technology-driven organization in the specialty insurance industry, offering innovative digital solutions that simplify purchasing, managing, and servicing insurance products. The company is investing heavily in modernizing its technology, expanding its digital products, and implementing AI-powered solutions to streamline operations and improve customer experience. About the Opportunity We are seeking an exceptional, hands-on Senior Software Engineer to take technical ownership of a sophisticated e-commerce platform and help build the next generation of AI-powered business applications. The organization is nearing completion of a major platform rebuild and needs a highly capable engineer to help guide the transition, take ownership of the new environment, and drive future development. This is a highly independent, backend-focused role requiring strong technical judgment, architectural expertise, and the ability to deliver production-ready solutions with minimal oversight. You'll work closely with an existing technical lead during the transition and progressively assume responsibility for software architecture, development, infrastructure, and technical execution, with the opportunity to eventually lead additional developers. Key Responsibilities Own Development & Architecture: Design, build, deploy, and maintain complex applications using React, Node.js, and SQL, with a strong emphasis on backend systems.Deliver Independently: Take medium-to-large features from requirements through technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring with minimal oversight.Leverage AI Development Tools: Use Claude Code or comparable AI-assisted development tools to accelerate development while maintaining rigorous code review, testing, and security practices.Develop AI Solutions: Build custom AI agents, LLM integrations, and automated workflows across internal systems and customer-facing applications.Manage Integrations: Develop and maintain integrations with enterprise financial systems, payment platforms, CRM applications, and third-party services.Own Infrastructure: Oversee cloud infrastructure, databases, deployments, CI/CD, security, monitoring, backups, and application performance.Establish Engineering Standards: Produce modular, well-tested, maintainable code, technical design documents, and clear documentation.Support Marketing & Conversion Optimization: Collaborate with marketing stakeholders to improve website analytics, conversion tracking, technical SEO, advertising integrations, and customer journey monitoring.Optimize Customer Experience: Implement monitoring solutions to identify customer drop-offs, detect website issues, and quickly resolve problems following releases or updates.Solve Complex Problems: Investigate production issues, identify root causes, and implement reliable, long-term solutions.Drive Technical Direction: Recommend architectural improvements, eliminate technical debt, and establish scalable engineering practices.Lead & Collaborate: Work independently, communicate progress effectively, collaborate with business stakeholders, and potentially help lead a growing engineering team. Required Qualifications 5+ years of professional software development experience, including ownership of production systems from design through deployment.Strong React experience, including application architecture, performance optimization, and state management.Strong Node.js experience building and operating production services and APIs.Advanced SQL skills, including schema design, query optimization, indexing, and data integrity.Proven ability to architect solutions, solve complex problems, and deliver projects independently.Expert-level, judgment-driven use of Claude Code or comparable AI-assisted development tools.Strong understanding of testing, secure development, CI/CD, observability, and maintainable software architecture.Experience creating technical design documents and clear, team-ready documentation.Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and collaborate with business stakeholders.Strong communication, accountability, and organizational skills in a remote environment. Preferred Qualifications Microsoft Azure architecture, including PaaS, serverless, Key Vault, networking/WAF, and monitoring.Experience with insurance, payments, e-commerce, fintech, or other regulated transactional platforms.Familiarity with SOC 1, SOC 2, PCI DSS, or SOX compliance environments.Experience building production AI agents, LLM integrations, and business process automation.Experience integrating NetSuite or other enterprise financial systems.Legacy application modernization and complex platform migrations.Production incident response and advanced observability tooling. Why Join? This is an opportunity to do far more than maintain existing applications or complete assigned development tickets. You'll have the autonomy to own a business-critical technology platform, influence architectural decisions, introduce innovative AI solutions, and build new products that directly impact business growth. The technology roadmap includes new digital products, AI-driven process automation, modernized business systems, financial integrations, mobile applications, and external APIs. We're looking for an engineer who combines exceptional technical ability with initiative, urgency, practical judgment, and a strong sense of ownership. If you enjoy solving difficult problems, embrace modern development tools, and want the opportunity to build and lead rather than simply maintain, we'd love to hear from you. Share This Job: to save this search and get notified of similar positions. Related Jobs: There are currently no related jobs. Please sign up for Job Alerts. Loading... to save this search and get notified of similar positions. About Pasadena, CA Ready to take the next step in your career? Explore our job opportunities in and around Pasadena, California! 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