Senior Software Engineer, Core

Position Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Core Engineering team, you'll be joining the "brains" behind our insurance marketplace. This team powers the logic that takes an insurance shopper's data and turns it into personalized, high-converting recommendations.

In this role, you’ll do more than just code: you’ll shape our roadmap, initiate new projects, and partner cross-functionally to turn product initiatives into scalable, well-tested technical solutions. You’ll bring a product mindset to technical problem-solving, drive architectural decisions, and lead the team through complex engineering challenges.

You will report directly into Stanton Sievers, Head of Core Engineering. 

We believe in paying competitively for great work. As a remote team, we set our salaries at the 75th percentile of national market data in our industry. You can count on your pay being in line with (or above) the market. For this role, the base salary range is $175,000 – $185,000. We review compensation twice a year to make sure we’re staying competitive and rewarding our team’s contributions.

Who You Are

• Meticulous: You pay attention to detail and take pride in what you deliver
• Articulate: You succinctly and effectively communicate verbal and written technical and non-technical ideas and topics
• Kind, not (just) nice: You provide tough feedback in a clear and concise manner that does not diminish or belittle the recipient
• Opinionated: You bring strong opinions to discussions but are willing to change your mind when presented with new or better information
• Product-minded: You focus on the “why” just as much as the “what” or “how”
• Collaborative: You work within your team and cross-functionally to build consensus and achieve results
• Autonomous: You are self-motivated, able to hold yourself accountable, and can generate high-value work with little direct supervision

What You’ll Do

• Guide your team in delivering high quality, well tested technical solutions providing technical and project oversight
• Lead by example through the quality of your code and your approach to your work
• Own projects through the entire software development lifecycle - from planning and development to validation, iteration, and maintenance
• Translate conceptual work into well-crafted tech plans for review by technical leadership and key stakeholders
• Leverage your understanding of the business and engineering strategies to design experiments and high-value projects that impact the work your team is doing
• Expertly navigate complex systems and domains to identify key challenges and create plans to address them
• Own system quality and hold your team members accountable through constructive and actionable feedback
• Level up the team through code review feedback and knowledge sharing sessions
• Assist in the onboarding of new engineering hires

What You’ll Need

• 5+ years’ experience developing software in a production environment
• 2+ years’ experience in a senior engineer role
• Production experience with Node.js and Typescript
• Proven experience working in backend systems, designing RESTful APIs and codifying business logic on top of data stores
• Exceptional ability to communicate clearly and concisely, particularly in Slack and technical documents
• Experience in product development where you were a key decision maker
• Deep expertise in system architecture and design
• Proven success in operational excellence
• Familiarity with cloud environments, especially the Google Cloud stack