Software Engineering Lead, Trellis
Affiliate Engineering
$210-220k
Offers equity and bonus
Ebedded insurance provider
Job no longer available
Ebedded insurance provider
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$210-220k
Offers equity and bonus
101-200 employees
Company mission
To simplify and automate shopping for home and auto insurance by applying technologies to save time and money for shoppers and insurers alike.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive Backend Engineering Experience – This role is nearly entirely backend focused. You should be comfortable exercising best practices in Python/FastAPI, working with high-throughput real-time systems, and deploying and operating services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Communication Skills – You will work extensively with external affiliate partners, making clear and professional written and verbal communication essential. You'll need good judgment for navigating technical conversations with partners of varying sophistication and organizational complexity
- Process Orientation & Multitasking – You will be responsible for many simultaneous workstreams: active integrations, in-flight debugging, API evolution projects, and ongoing partner relationships. You'll need to design and maintain right-sized processes to keep everything on track without dropping balls
- Detail Orientation – Real-time bidding is an unforgiving environment where a single malformed field or misconfigured parameter can silently degrade performance or revenue. An extraordinary eye for detail is essential
- QA Mindset – You will be expected to build and maintain robust testing and validation practices to ensure integrations behave correctly end-to-end, especially as we scale to more affiliates and more inventory types
- Domain Knowledge (a Plus) – Familiarity with the insurance industry and/or real-time bidding ecosystems (leads, clicks, calls) will meaningfully accelerate your ability to make good decisions and earn credibility with partners
What the job involves
- Reporting to Thomas Boquet, Head of Real-Time Bidding, the Software Engineering Lead, Affiliate Engineering will own all of our technical relationships and integrations with affiliate partners - the platforms that send us millions of leads, clicks, and calls daily - and serve as the primary technical point of contact for ensuring those partnerships are deeply integrated, high-performing, and continuously improving
- Your mission will be to ensure that our real-time bidding infrastructure:
- Seamlessly connects with dozens of affiliate platforms, giving us access to the broadest and highest-quality inventory possible
- Accurately and reliably receives, validates, and routes inbound data from affiliate requests through to our machine learning models
- Maintains a high degree of integration reliability, visibility, and performance across all affiliate channels
- Make every affiliate successful at integrating with our API
- By serving as a responsive, knowledgeable technical partner throughout the onboarding and integration process
- By systematically identifying and resolving bugs and gaps in existing integrations
- Proactively deepen our integrations with every affiliate
- By evolving our API to expose richer capabilities and unlock more inventory
- By collaborating directly with affiliate partners to identify and act on opportunities to expand the volume and quality of traffic we receive
- Build visibility and confidence in our data pipeline
- By documenting, understanding, and monitoring the full data flow from inbound API requests through to our machine learning models
- By proactively tracking integration performance and surfacing issues before they become business problems
Our take
Changing insurance providers can be a confusing and time-consuming process, which is why many people end up sticking with policies that aren't quite right for them. Trellis was built to make this easier, offering a platform that lets users compare insurance options side-by-side. It also works with digital banks and financial platforms to present relevant insurance choices directly to customers.
Recently, Trellis was acquired by Gen Digital, the company behind brands like Norton and LifeLock. As part of the deal, Trellis' technology will be integrated into Gen's "Engine" platform, which helps users find financial products tailored to their needs. Meaning Trellis' tools will now reach a much larger audience and play a role in offering more personalized insurance recommendations.
The acquisition highlights a broader trend in finance, where services like insurance are increasingly built into the apps and platforms people already use. With Gen's scale behind it, Trellis is now in an even better position to grow and improve how customers discover and choose insurance products.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2022
$5m
EARLY VC
Jun 2021
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $15m
Company benefits
- Competitive Salary: We target above-market base salaries (75th percentile, US-wide), along with performance bonuses and equity opportunities, so you’re rewarded for your contributions and invested in our shared success.
- Fully Remote: We’re fully remote because we trust great people to do great work wherever they are. We strive to find top performers and provide an environment that allows them to do their best work.
- Investment in You: From a new laptop to a budget for your home office setup, we ensure you have what you need to do your best work. Plus, with quarterly team-bonding events, we stay connected and have some fun, too.
- Health: We invest 100% in health, life, and disability premiums for our employees and contribute 65% for dependents, so you and your family can have peace of mind.
- Retirement: After one year of service, employees are automatically enrolled in Trellis’ 401(k) plan, including a non-elective contribution by Trellis of 3% of your earnings.
- Unlimited Vacation Time: Take the time you need. We believe in working hard, but also trust you to rest and recharge.
Company HQ
Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Daniel Demetri
(Founder & CEO)Alongside serving as Trellis' CEO, Daniel is the VP/Head of Insurance Vertical at Gen. Previously, he co-founded Doma where he served as the CPO for 2 years. He also worked at Google for 3 years as an Associate Product Manager and Product Manager.
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