Senior Software Engineer

Pie's mission is to empower small businesses to thrive by making commercial insurance affordable and as easy as pie. We leverage technology to transform how small businesses buy and experience commercial insurance.

Like our small business customers, we are a diverse team of builders, dreamers, and entrepreneurs who are driven by core values and operating principles that guide every decision we make.

Pie Insurance’s Technology team builds and operates a suite of applications and services that allow direct consumers, partners, and agents to manage commercial insurance policies. The team collaborates closely with our business partners to design and implement new features to help the company scale with increasing demand.

We are seeking highly motivated Backend Engineers who encourage an environment where engineers are thought leaders and foster a culture of diversity and inclusion. Acting as leaders across the organization on design, architecture, and best practices, they elevate those around them and push the company forward.

How You’ll Do It

• You’ll write clean, maintainable, and efficient code primarily in TypeScript (with some C# preferred).
• You’ll participate in peer code reviews, ensuring the delivery of high-quality code and adherence to coding standards.
• You’ll collaborate transparently with product management, designers, stakeholders, and fellow engineers throughout the development process.
• You’ll help shape the design and architecture of scalable, secure, and robust systems and applications.
• You’ll deliver software using continuous delivery pipelines, contributing to enhancing and optimizing these pipelines.
• You’ll assist our support and operations teams by triaging and resolving production issues in a timely manner.
• You’ll build highly modular and reusable code while adhering to industry standards and best practices.
• You’ll participate in on-call rotations, consistently seeking opportunities to improve operational stability and system visibility.
• You’ll continuously learn and stay up-to-date on software engineering best practices and new technologies to improve our systems.

The Right Stuff

• Expertise in backend and infrastructure software engineering, with strong expertise in TypeScript (C# experience is a plus).
• Consistently demonstrated expertise in AWS technologies, best practices, and architecture.
• Experienced in leveraging AWS CDK (Projen experience is a plus).
• Consistently demonstrates crafting technical solutions in a variety of greenfield and brownfield projects, exhibiting adaptability, independence, and autonomy.
• Expertise with CI/CD best practices and experience in continuous integration/delivery using GitHub.
• Adopts an Agile mindset focused on delivering small, incremental improvements that provide tangible value to the customer.
• Embraces a growth mindset, continually seeking opportunities for professional development—expanding technical and non-technical capabilities such as communication, collaboration, and problem-solving—through openness to feedback and proactive learning.
• Maintains a strong sense of personal accountability, consistently delivering high-quality, secure, and performance-optimized code.

The use of AI in Application Review: To support a fair, efficient, and consistent hiring process, we use AI-powered tools to assist in the initial screening of applications. These tools help us identify qualifications and prior work experiences that align with the requirements of the role. All AI-reviewed applications are still subject to human oversight and decision-making at multiple stages of the process. By submitting your application, you acknowledge and consent to it being reviewed using these AI technologies to assist in our evaluation process.

Base Compensation Range

$145,000—$180,000 USD

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive cash compensation
• A piece of the pie (in the form of equity)
• Comprehensive health plans
• Generous PTO
• Future focused 401k match
• Generous parental and caregiver leave
• Our core values are more than just a poster on the wall; they’re tangibly reflected in our work

Our goal is to make all aspects of working with us as easy as pie. That includes our offer process. When we’ve identified a talented individual who we’d like to be a Pie-oneer , we work hard to present an equitable and fair offer. We look at the candidate’s knowledge, skills, and experience, along with their compensation expectations and align that with our company equity processes to determine our offer ranges.

Each year Pie reviews company performance and may grant discretionary bonuses to eligible team members.

Location Information

Unless otherwise specified, this role has the option to be hybrid or remote. Hybrid work locations provide team members with the flexibility of working partially from our Denver office and from home. Remote team members must live and work in the United States* (*territories excluded), and have access to reliable, high-speed internet.

Additional Information

_Pie Insurance is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, military service status, citizenship, or other protected characteristic.

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