Staff Software Engineer
A senior software engineer leads the design, development, and maintenance of scalable insurance-tech platforms, APIs, and distributed systems for a fintech-focused insurer. Focuses on technical leadership, cloud infrastructure, and cross-functional collaboration to enhance core insurance software and operational tools.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois, United States; Jersey City, New Jersey, United States; Mountain View, California, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience independently solving complex technical problems and influencing technical direction
- Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Java, TypeScript, Go, Python, C#)
- Experience designing, developing, integrating, and maintaining APIs, services, distributed systems, or modern software applications
- Experience working with databases and applying software design, architecture, testing, and development best practices
- Proven ability to provide technical leadership, evaluate tradeoffs, and influence the direction of complex, cross-functional initiatives
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to bring structure and sound technical judgment to ambiguous challenges
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including experience working effectively across remote and geographically dispersed teams
Nice to have
- Experience designing and maintaining microservices or distributed systems
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS), containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Experience with Java, Spring Boot, and Temporal
- Experience using AI-enabled development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot)
- Experience in property and casualty insurance, Insurtech, or regulated industries
Full description
Overview:
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 Staff Software Engineer to help design, build, and evolve the software platforms that support our customers, partners, and business operations.
As a senior individual contributor, you will solve complex engineering problems, influence architectural and technical decisions, and help teams deliver scalable, reliable, and maintainable software. You will work closely with engineers, product managers, quality engineers, architects, and other cross-functional partners to enhance existing products and develop new capabilities
This role offers the opportunity to work with modern technologies, contribute across the software development lifecycle, and provide technical leadership within a collaborative engineering organization. We invite you to join our shared commitment to building, shipping, learning, and continuously improving.
What you’d be doing:
- Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable software applications, services, APIs, and platform capabilities.
- Lead the technical design and implementation of solutions that support complex business requirements, high transaction volumes, and evolving customer needs.
- Partner with product managers, quality engineers, architects, and other stakeholders to define requirements, evaluate technical approaches, and deliver high-quality solutions.
- Establish and influence the technical direction of projects and initiatives, including architecture, design patterns, system integrations, and engineering standards.
- Identify performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability concerns and develop solutions that improve the health of our systems.
- Deliver software through automated build, testing, deployment, and continuous delivery processes.
- Ensure code quality through automated testing, code reviews, technical documentation, and adherence to software engineering best practices.
- Communicate technical plans, architectural decisions, risks, and recommendations clearly to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and coaching to other engineers through pairing, design discussions, and code reviews.
- Collaborate across engineering teams to solve shared technical challenges, promote consistent practices, and advance broader platform capabilities.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and development tools, including AI-enabled engineering tools, and identify opportunities to improve software delivery and developer effectiveness.