Senior Software Engineer, Insurance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Washington.

📋 Description

• Utilize agentic AI coding tools as the primary methodology for platform development, rather than as an experimental approach.

• Collaborate within the team’s agent configuration patterns, custom skills, and CI/CD integration — and assist in enhancing them as you identify areas for improvement.

• Ensure the code produced with AI support adheres to our standards: a green CI pipeline, successful evaluations, and clean pre-commit hooks are essential.

• Employ effective spec-driven and context-management practices that differentiate productive AI-assisted tasks from non-productive ones, sharing successful strategies with colleagues.

• Develop agentic functionalities within the platform — including agent-assisted configuration, AI-driven underwriting decisions, document comprehension for declarations and endorsements, and conversational interfaces for the operations team.

• Contribute to the RAG pipelines, retrieval systems, and tool-use patterns that align LLM behavior with regulated insurance content (e.g., rate manuals, underwriting guidelines, state-specific rules).

• Implement integration patterns (MCP, function calling, structured outputs) to expose platform capabilities to internal agents and external partners.

• Introduce observability, evaluation, and cost tracking to the AI features you manage, ensuring their behavior is measurable, debuggable, and constrained.

• Adhere to responsible-AI guidelines that maintain the audibility of agent-influenced decisions and their compliance with insurance regulatory standards.

• Design and develop core PAS services in your domain — such as quoting, rating, binding, issuance, endorsements, renewals, cancellations, and reinstatements — making informed design decisions and tradeoffs throughout.

• Contribute to the rating engine, product configuration layer, and rules framework that empower business teams to launch new states and products without engineering delays.

• Develop data models for policy lifecycle management, exposure control, and regulatory compliance, with input from senior engineers on overarching architecture.

• Build within the platform’s event-driven patterns and integration framework for the carrier, vendor, and partner systems the platform interacts with.

• Create migration tools: automated data extraction, transformation, validation, and reconciliation pipelines.

• Maintain stability in existing vendor platforms while developing replacements — balancing between "keeping the lights on" and "building the future" efficiently.

• Collaborate with Product and Insurance Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to refine requirements and translate domain needs into functional software.

• Engage in design reviews, offering constructive feedback during code reviews and providing ad-hoc technical support for teammates.

• Lead by example — demonstrating strong ownership, accountability, and a commitment to high quality — and assist other engineers in enhancing their skills.

• Remain hands-on. This is a build role: you will write production code weekly.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of professional software engineering experience in building and operating backend services in a production environment.

• Proven ability to lead at least one project from conception to production, breaking down work into manageable, well-tested releases.

• In-depth engineering expertise in Python, Java, or a similar backend language; comfortable working across the stack from data modeling to API development to deployment.

• Strong fundamentals in systems design: distributed systems, event-driven architecture, API-first design, and data modeling for transactional workloads.

• Practical experience in developing LLM-integrated features — RAG, tool usage, or agent workflows — that run in actual software, not just prototypes.

• Familiarity with agentic AI coding tools integrated into your daily development workflow, along with insights on what makes AI-assisted work reliable.

• Ability to operate with minimal guidance in your area, and comfortable navigating unfamiliar sections of the codebase with support.

• Must be based in the US and available to work during core business hours.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance (three Medical plan options)

• Dental plan options (two)

• Vision plan

• Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, and Accident plans (voluntary)

• Partially employer-funded Health Savings Account

• Employee Flexible Savings Accounts (healthcare, dependent care, transportation)

• Company-paid Basic Life and AD&D

• Short and Long-Term Disability benefits

• Voluntary Life and AD&D plans

• Traditional and Roth 401(k) plans (with discretionary employer match)

• Supportlinc (employer-paid wellbeing program)

• LifeBalance (year-round discounts)

• Flexible paid vacation

• Company-paid holidays (typically nine per year)

• Paid sick time

• Paid parental leave

• Identity theft program

• Travel assistance

• Fitness and other discount programs