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[Remote] Staff Software Engineer

🌍 Remote Β· United States πŸ’Ό Full-time

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SageSure is a catastrophe-exposed property insurance company seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and evolve software platforms supporting customers, partners, and business operations. The role involves solving complex engineering problems, influencing architecture and technical direction, delivering scalable and reliable software, and providing technical leadership within a remote engineering organization.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable software applications, services, APIs, and platform capabilities
  • Lead the technical design and implementation of solutions that support complex business requirements, high transaction volumes, and evolving customer needs
  • Partner with product managers, quality engineers, architects, and other stakeholders to define requirements, evaluate technical approaches, and deliver high-quality solutions
  • Establish and influence the technical direction of projects and initiatives, including architecture, design patterns, system integrations, and engineering standards
  • Identify performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability concerns and develop solutions that improve the health of our systems
  • Deliver software through automated build, testing, deployment, and continuous delivery processes
  • Ensure code quality through automated testing, code reviews, technical documentation, and adherence to software engineering best practices
  • Communicate technical plans, architectural decisions, risks, and recommendations clearly to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders
  • Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and coaching to other engineers through pairing, design discussions, and code reviews
  • Collaborate across engineering teams to solve shared technical challenges, promote consistent practices, and advance broader platform capabilities
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and development tools, including AI-enabled engineering tools, and identify opportunities to improve software delivery and developer effectiveness

Skills

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ Β years of professional software engineering experience, including experience independently solving complex technical problems and influencing technical direction
  • Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language, such as Java, TypeScript, Go, Python, C#, or a comparable language
  • Experience designing, developing, integrating, and maintaining APIs, services, distributed systems, or modern software applications
  • Experience working with databases and applying software design, architecture, testing, and development best practices
  • Proven ability to provide technical leadership, evaluate tradeoffs, and influence the direction of complex, cross-functional initiatives
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to bring structure and sound technical judgment to ambiguous challenges
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, including experience working effectively across remote and geographically dispersed teams
  • Ability to travel occasionally, up to 15%, based on business needs
  • Experience designing and maintaining microservices or distributed systems
  • Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, and orchestration technologies, particularly AWS, Docker, or Kubernetes
  • Experience with technologies commonly used within SageSure's software environment, including Java, Spring Boot, and Temporal
  • Experience using AI-enabled development tools or agentic coding assistants, such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot
  • Experience in property and casualty insurance, Insurtech, Fintech, or another regulated industry

Benefits

  • Fully remote engineering organization

Company Overview

  • SageSure offers property and casualty insurance solutions tailored for homeowners in regions prone to natural catastrophes. It was founded in 2009, and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.sagesure.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • SageSure has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 7 in 2025, 3 in 2024, 4 in 2023, 2 in 2022, 1 in 2021, 2 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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