Staff Software Engineer, Payments (AirCover Insurance Platform)

The role

You will lead the design and evolution of core subsystems for the AirCover Insurance Platform. This includes managing policies, coverage, enrollment, regional rules, and experimentation capabilities.

What you will do

• Design future-state architecture to expand AirCover to new regions and products.
• Lead the design of an experimentation framework for insurance offers, pricing and placement.
• Lead engineers inside and outside the team in building solutions.
• Engage with product managers, designers, data scientists and legal partners to shape requirements.
• Raise the bar for technical quality from design to production operations.
• Mentor engineers and act as a player/coach.
• Apply emerging technology, including LLMs, to improve automation and experience.
• Write and review designs and code for high-availability, distributed backend services.
• Make architectural trade-offs and scale services in a regulated, multi-region environment.
• Analyze data to find gaps in conversion and coverage.

Required qualifications

• 9+ years of relevant software development experience in a fast-paced tech environment (or 7+ with an advanced degree).
• Expertise in backend systems in large-scale, service-oriented architectures.
• Real-world experience in at least one of Java, Kotlin, Python, Go or similar.
• Experience designing multi-region or multi-tenant platforms with configurable, rules-driven behavior.
• Experience with A/B testing and experimentation systems.
• Experience using data to improve conversion or attach rates.
• Proficiency designing and operating high-performance systems with reliable monitoring and logging.
• Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL.
• Good judgment in balancing short-term business needs with long-term technical quality.
• Hands-on technical leadership across multiple teams.
• Excellent communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience in insurance, payments, fintech or other regulated domains

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits

About the company

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