Senior Software Engineer, Underwriting

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services in Python and/or Go that power underwriting decisioning and automation.
• Implement and evolve systems that integrate with statistical models, and machine learning models to assess, price, and monitor cyber risk over time.
• Create and maintain alerts, monitors, and dashboards to ensure operational stability, observability, and clear incident response paths.
• Write clean, well-structured, and tested code, including robust unit and integration tests to enable confident, frequent releases.
• Lead small projects end-to-end and act as a technical driver within a team of engineers on medium-to-large initiatives, collaborating with product, underwriting, and data partners.
• Contribute to architecture and design discussions that balance pragmatism, scalability, and decoupling as the underwriting platform grows.
• Help automate and improve the underwriting and decisioning workflows used by internal underwriters and risk teams.

Skills and Qualifications

• Strong experience building and operating backend APIs and services in Python and/or Go, including familiarity with common frameworks and patterns.
• Hands-on experience with REST and at least one additional transport or format such as gRPC or GraphQL.
• Experience using source control systems (e.g., Git or similar).
• Practical experience deploying and running services in AWS or another major public cloud environment.
• Familiarity with modern observability and error-tracking tools such as Sentry, Datadog, Jaeger/Zipkin, Graylog, or AppDynamics.
• Experience working on an agile software team and using collaborative development tools such as the Atlassian suite, GitHub, or GitLab.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• P4-caliber ownership: ability to independently drive projects of moderate scope, make sound technical tradeoffs, and mentor less-experienced engineers.

Compensation

The US base salary for this position ranges from $130,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $195,000/year in our highest geographic market.