[Remote] Senior Software Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Spark Advisors is building innovative healthcare technology to improve the Medicare experience for seniors. They are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to enhance their web-based broker platform by delivering impactful features and making architectural decisions to ensure long-term stability and scalability.
Responsibilities
- Deliver impactful full-stack features that will benefit Medicare brokers and beneficiaries
- Work closely with product to understand the relationship between agents and Medicare beneficiaries, developing features that improve retiree outcomes
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide constructive feedback on design mockups and product scope
- Identify and manage technical debt while building robust architectures to support platform scalability
- Actively contribute to development standards by promoting best practices and giving constructive feedback in code reviews and technical designs
- Build with modern AI-powered developer tools that remove friction and let you focus on meaningful problems - and help us continue to grow how we use them across the team
Skills
- 5+ years of professional experience with either modern JS (Vue, React) or Python/backend web development, with meaningful hands-on experience in both
- Comfort with ambiguity; ability to thrive in fast-paced environments
- Product intuition and a keen interest in how tech investments drive business outcomes
- Fluency with AI-powered development tools as part of your everyday workflow
- Strong communication and project management skills
- Attention to detail and a history of technical excellence shipping customer-facing products
- Commitment to a growth-oriented team culture focused on learning, continuous improvement, and winning together
- Experience working directly with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
- Expertise in Django or similar
- Track record in technical or project leadership
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- Health care, including dental and vision through our PEO Sequoia
- Flexible work location; co-working available
- 401k
- Paid Time Off
- Monthly Remote Work Stipend (help cover costs of home-office needs)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Up to 14 weeks for birthing parents
- Up to 8 weeks for non-birth parents
- 11 paid holidays
- 2 week sabbatical at 5 years of employment
- Wellbeing Perks through SpringHealth, OneMedical, PerkSpot, and SoFi
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