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.
About SageSure:
As a Best Places to Work in Insurance Recipient for four years in a row (2020-2023), SageSure, one of the largest residential property insurance managing general underwriter (MGU) in the United States, is pioneering ways people protect their American Dream.
A leader in catastrophe-exposed property insurance, SageSure was founded in 2009 to deliver reliable products, exceptional customer experiences, and strong underwriting results in challenging insurance markets. SageSure currently operates in 14 states and provides home, flood, and commercial coverage on behalf of its highly rated carrier partners.
We have more than 600 employees working remotely or hybrid in one of our eight offices—Jersey City, NJ; Mountain View, CA; Chicago, IL; Tallahassee, FL; Cincinnati, OH; Houston, TX; Mt. Laurel, NJ; and Cheshire, CT—who are tackling the industry’s toughest challenges.
We provide generous health benefits and perks, including tuition reimbursement, wellness allowance, paid volunteer time off, a matching 401K plan, and more.
SageSure is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a workforce that reflects the spectrum of perspectives, experiences, and abilities of the world we live in. We recognize that our differences make us strong, and we actively seek out diverse candidates through partnerships with organizations, institutions and communities that represent various backgrounds. We champion belonging and inclusion for all identities, including, but not limited to, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, ability status, gender, and country of origin, striving to create a culture where all individuals feel valued, respected, and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work.
Our nimble, highly responsive culture nurtures critical thinkers who run toward problems and engineer solutions. We relentlessly pursue better outcomes by investing in the technology, talent, and tools that position us to succeed in demanding markets. Come join our team! Visit sagesure.com/careers to find a position for you.
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What We Do
SageSure is an innovation-focused insurance and technology company specializing in underserved property markets. As the leading homeowners insurtech organization in the U.S. measured by premium and profitability, we offer more than 40 competitively priced insurance products on behalf of our carrier partners, serving 300,000+ policyholders. SageSure partners with a growing network of insurance agents and brokers in 14 coastal states.
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