Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
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.
Requirements
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working in Insurtech or Fintech environments.
- Experience with Temporal workflow orchestration.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Benefits
- Named among the Best Places to Work in Insurance by Business Insurance for four years in a row (2020-2023)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
