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Staff Software Engineer in USA

SageSure
Full time
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USA
08/26/2026
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Chicago, IL

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable software applications, services, APIs, and platform capabilities.
Lead technical design and implementation for complex, high-volume business requirements.
Influence architecture, design patterns, system integrations, technical direction, and engineering standards.
Identify and resolve performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability concerns.
Deliver software through automated build, testing, deployment, and continuous delivery processes.
Maintain code quality through automated testing, code reviews, documentation, and software engineering best practices.
Communicate technical plans, architectural decisions, risks, and recommendations to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and coaching to engineers through pairing, design discussions, and code reviews.
Collaborate across engineering teams to solve shared technical challenges and advance platform capabilities.
Evaluate emerging technologies and AI-enabled engineering tools to improve software delivery and developer effectiveness.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience.
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 complex cross-functional initiatives.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
Ability to work effectively across remote and geographically dispersed teams.
Preferred experience with microservices or distributed systems, cloud platforms, containerization, and orchestration.
Preferred experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Java, Spring Boot, Temporal, Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot.
Experience in property and casualty insurance, Insurtech, Fintech, or another regulated industry is preferred.
Ability to travel occasionally, up to 15%, based on business needs.

Benefits

Fully remote work arrangement within a distributed workforce environment.
Opportunity to work with modern technologies and contribute across the software development lifecycle.
Technical leadership, mentorship, and collaboration within a growing engineering organization.
Occasional travel of up to 15% may be required.

SageSure

SageSure is a leading managing general underwriter specializing in catastrophe-exposed markets across the US. We deliver a wide range of competitively priced insurance products—spanning homeowners, flood, earthquake, and commercial coverage—tailored to meet the needs of policyholders in high-risk...

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