Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

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 Backend focused Staff Software Engineer. As a member of the Policy Financial team, you will be responsible for developing, modernizing, and maintaining API solutions that support our financial accounting of insurance policies. Joining our engineering team offers the chance to work with cutting-edge technologies, solve complex problems, and thrive in a collaborative and fulfilling environment. Under the guidance and mentorship of our experienced engineering team, you will contribute to the enhancement of existing products and the development of new ones. We invite you to join our expanding, fully remote engineering team and become a part of our shared commitment to building, shipping, learning, and continuous improvement. 

What you’d be doing: 

• Design, implement, and test services and APIs with the support of your team including product managers and quality engineers. 
• Make data-based decisions to continuously improve the availability, performance, and maintainability of our services. 
• Communicate plans, architectural decisions, features, and processes through documentation and demonstrations. 
• Mentor and coach other engineers through pairing, design & code reviews. 
• Provide cross-team direction and consistently influence decision-making in the API implementation. 

We’re looking for someone who has: 

• Significant expertise in Java development. 
• Experience developing and integrating with RESTful APIs. 
• Strong understanding of SQL and experience with queries and stored procedures. 
• Experience in the full lifecycle of micro-services: design, development, and maintenance. 
• Proven track record of providing technical leadership within cross-functional teams, including defining project technical direction. 

Highly preferred candidates also have: 

• Working knowledge of Temporal. 
• Proficiency in Spring Boot development. 
• Experience with cloud-native technologies, including AWS and Kubernetes for container orchestration. 
• Familiarity with the Insurtech or Fintech landscape. 

Software at SageSure: 

Originally founded as a software and analytics business, SageSure's proprietary technology has always been a key source of competitive advantage. We offer agents and policyholders best-in-class, modern capabilities to quote and bind insurance, service policies, and submit and track claims. We operate a microservices-based SaaS platform and conduct a substantial share of our business through our API. Our software product, engineering, and operations teams set the bar for talent in our industry. We work remotely from numerous states across the country and are always looking for exceptional individuals to join us. 

We are continually innovating with modern tools and technologies, and we welcome new perspectives. An ideal candidate will have a passion for some of our key technologies and advocate pragmatic industry practices around availability, scalability, security, and automation. A cloud-based infrastructure, continuous integration and delivery, and a quality-first approach help us to better deliver software. A metrics-driven mindset has become part of our DNA and helps us make data-driven decisions. If you have interests across these domains, we want to help grow and foster them.