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 Principal Software Engineer to build modern web interfaces and powerful service APIs that drive our market-leading insurance platform.
At SageSure, we value team culture, innovation, and mentorship. You will work with the full support of our engineering team to tackle challenging, high-impact problems in a collaborative environment. If you're passionate about building scalable solutions, fostering strong team dynamics, and continuously growing as an engineer and leader, we want to hear from you!
What you’d be doing:
- Designing, implementing, and testing scalable services and APIs with the support of your squad.
- Architecting and optimizing high-performance database structures for large-scale applications. Developing client libraries and API documentation to support seamless integration with Claim Services.
- Making data-driven decisions to enhance availability, performance, and maintainability.
- Clearly communicating plans, architectural decisions, features, and processes through documentation and demos.
- Providing technical leadership and mentorship, shaping best practices across squads.
- Monitoring system performance and implementing improvements to ensure high availability and resilience.
- Proactively identifying and refactoring code to improve efficiency and maintainability.
- Monitoring system performance and implementing improvements to ensure high availability and resilience.
- Driving code quality through test coverage, pair programming, and code reviews.
- Collaborating cross-functionally to gather requirements and implement solutions.
- Setting the bar for technical and communication excellence while fostering a strong team culture.
We’re looking for someone who has:
- Extensive experience in Java, SQL/PostgreSQL, and AWS S3.
- Proven expertise in building and integrating REST APIs using Spring Boot.
- Experience leading a team in a microservice architecture framework.
- Familiarity with Temporal.
- Experience building API specs, client libraries, and documentation for other development teams.
- Strong background in designing, developing, and maintaining distributed systems.
- A growth mindset and motivation to invest in personal development, team collaboration, and service excellence.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to juggle multiple projects without compromising quality or delivery timelines.
Highly preferred candidates also have:
- Experience with Authentication and Identity Management technologies such as OAuth, OIDC, SAML.
- Hands-on experience with observability tools (i.e. Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and/or Zipkin).
- Familiarity with cloud platforms and/or containerized application deployments, especially AWS and Kubernetes.
- Background in Insurtech or Fintech environments.
- A passion for mentoring and fostering a culture of learning and growth.
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 (java, SQL, Spring Boot) 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:
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 markets 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 50 competitively priced home, flood, earthquake, and commercial products on behalf of its highly rated carrier partners. Today, SageSure manages more than $1.9 billion of inforce premium and helps protect 640,000 policyholders.
SageSure has more than 1000 employees working remotely or in-office across nine offices: Cheshire, Connecticut; Chicago, Illinois; Cincinnati, Ohio; Houston, Texas; Jersey City, New Jersey; Mountain View, California; Marlton, New Jersey; Tallahassee, Florida; and Seattle, Washington.
SageSure offers 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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