Staff Software Engineer

Job Summary

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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Qualifications

• 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

Required

• 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