Senior Software Engineer

About the role

As a vital member of the Policy Onboarding and Home Services team, you will own and evolve the backend services that power the post-bind policyholder journey—from account onboarding to inspection orchestration, hazard remediation, underwriting review, and proactive home-service offers. Your work directly impacts how policyholders experience SageSure after they purchase a policy, ensuring a seamless, reliable, and modern experience.

You'll contribute to architectural decisions, bringing product requirements and business context into the conversation. We operate a microservices-based SaaS platform on AWS and conduct a significant share of our business through APIs.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to craft innovative capabilities in our API products, enabling the building blocks of new customer experiences.
• Design and implement modern Java services that connect our platform to integration partners, powering dynamic and user-friendly experiences.
• Make high-level technical and architectural decisions to ensure our solutions are secure, reliable, and scalable as we grow.
• Own features end-to-end from technical design and implementation through testing, deployment, and production monitoring.
• Make well-reasoned design decisions and tradeoffs in your domain, authoring technical design documents, API documentation, and architectural proposals.
• Develop testing suites and validation strategies including integration tests, to deliver complex outcomes while maintaining high software quality.
• Mentor other engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and design discussions to foster a culture of excellence and collaboration.
• Expand and evolve our integration strategy, connecting third-party contractor networks, service providers, and our internal underwriting systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience building and deploying software applications.
• Strong experience with Java and modern Java tooling for backend development.
• A proven track record of designing scalable, secure APIs and integration solutions.
• Experience mentoring and guiding engineering teams.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to collaborate across teams.
• A proactive, curious mindset with a passion for building technology that makes a tangible difference.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in Insurtech or Fintech environments.
• Experience with Temporal workflow orchestration.

About SageSure

Named among the Best Places to Work in Insurance by Business Insurance for four years in a row (2020-2023), SageSure is one of the largest managing general underwriters (MGU) focused on catastrophe-exposed property in the US. Since its founding in 2009, SageSure has experienced exceptional growth while generating underwriting profits for carrier partners through hurricanes, wildfires, and hail.

Available in 16 states, SageSure offers more than 110 home, flood, and commercial products on behalf of its highly rated carrier partners. Today, SageSure manages more than $3.2 billion of in-force premium and helps protect more than 970,000 policyholders. We have more than 1,000 employees in a distributed workforce environment across 12 offices.

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. 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.