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Senior Software Engineer

Team
Engineering
Location
Remote (US)
Type
Full-time
Compensation
$170,000–$190,000 + 0.5% equity

About Signal Specialty

Signal Specialty is a specialty commercial insurance company. We design and administer programs for hard-to-place risks—starting with contractors' General Liability—and we build the software that runs the business ourselves, end to end: quoting, policy management, forms and endorsements, and the broker experience.

We are a small, senior team that ships. Instead of stitching together off-the-shelf insurance software, we own our platform: a Policy Management System and its API, a Broker Portal for submissions and policy tracking, quote and policy structure engines, and the internal tooling that ties it all together. That gives us an unusual amount of leverage—and it means the engineers here have a direct hand in how the company underwrites, quotes, and grows.

We're also genuinely AI-native in how we build. Our internal mission-control platform dispatches autonomous coding agents against real repositories in sandboxed environments, and retrieval-augmented context powers how we plan and execute work. If you're excited about building both insurance software and the systems that let a small team punch far above its weight, you'll fit in here.

The role

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to take ownership of significant parts of our platform. You'll work across the stack—from the Postgres data model and OpenAPI contracts up through the Next.js applications brokers and underwriters use every day—and you'll have real say in architecture, tooling, and process.

This is a high-autonomy role on a small team. You'll ship production features, harden the infrastructure they run on, and help set the engineering bar as we scale.

What you'll do

  • Design and build features across the Policy Management System, Broker Portal, and the shared API that backs them.
  • Own the full lifecycle of your work: data model and migrations, API contract, application code, tests, infrastructure, and deploy.
  • Model insurance domain concepts—policies, forms, endorsements, quotes, brokers—into clean, durable schemas and APIs.
  • Keep our contract-driven discipline intact: OpenAPI specs and Terraform move in lockstep with code, verified by CI drift gates.
  • Improve reliability and developer velocity—CI/CD pipelines, local-dev parity, deployment safety, and observability.
  • Extend our AI-native tooling: autonomous coding agents, MCP integrations, and retrieval over our own knowledge base.
  • Review PRs, mentor teammates, and raise the standard for quality and pragmatism.

Our stack

You don't need every item, but you should be strong in most of the core and eager to grow into the rest.

Languages & frameworks
TypeScript, Node 20, Next.js, React
Data
PostgreSQL with Drizzle ORM; DynamoDB where it fits; pgvector / Aurora Serverless for retrieval
API
OpenAPI contracts generated from Zod, with machine-checked drift gates in CI
Cloud & infra
AWS (ECS, ECR, RDS/Aurora, Secrets Manager, KMS, Bedrock); Terraform as versioned, gated infrastructure-as-code; one account per environment
CI/CD & tooling
GitHub Actions, GitHub OIDC deploy roles, LocalStack for local parity, feature-flagged sandbox → production promotion, conventional commits
AI & agents
Anthropic Claude, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), E2B sandboxes for autonomous agent runs, RAG

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years building and operating production software, with meaningful time as a senior/lead engineer.
  • Direct, hands-on experience building software in insurance, insurtech, fintech, or another regulated domain. Domain fluency is critical to this role—we're looking for someone who already understands the constraints, not someone who'll learn them on the job.
  • Deep comfort with TypeScript and a modern web framework (Next.js or similar), across both frontend and backend.
  • Strong relational data modeling instincts and fluency with SQL and an ORM (Drizzle, Prisma, or equivalent).
  • Experience shipping to a cloud environment (AWS preferred) and treating infrastructure as code.
  • A test-first, contract-first mindset—you value automated checks, small reviewable changes, and keeping API/infra honest with the code.
  • The judgment and independence to own ambitious work end to end on a small team, and the communication to bring others along.
  • Bonus: hands-on work with LLM-powered tooling and agents.

Compensation & benefits

  • Salary: $170,000–$190,000
  • Equity: 0.5% equity grant
  • 401(k): available (no employer matching)
  • PTO: unlimited
  • Health insurance: 100% of your premium covered, plus 25% of dependents' premiums

How to apply

Send a résumé and a short note about something you've built and owned end to end. Links to shipped work, side projects, or open source are welcome. We read every application and move quickly.

Apply for this role

Or email us directly at careers@signalspecialty.com.

Signal Specialty is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.