Software Engineering Lead, Trellis
Provider Integrations
$220-235k
+ Bonuses + Equity opportunities
P&C insurance data services
Open for applications
P&C insurance data services
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$220-235k
+ Bonuses + Equity opportunities
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build industry-leading solutions that make insurance easy for everyone, from consumers to partners to insurers.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive Backend Engineering Experience – This role will be nearly entirely backend focused. You should be comfortable exercising best practices in Typscript/NodeJS
- Product/Business Chops – You will need to make smart, nuanced product decisions, such as what coverages to request for a given shopper. This will require that you be able to quickly learn new product domains (like how car insurance works in each state)
- Communication Skills – Since you will be working extensively with the companies that pay our bills, professional and clear written and verbal communication skills will be essential, as well as judgment for how to navigate their large corporate bureaucracies
- Process Orientation – You will be responsible for a lot of spinning plates, such as bugs that insurers’ need to fix, and multi-week refactoring projects, so you will need to skillfully manage and keep track of everything by designing and implementing effective and right-sized processes
- Comfort with Data – In order to identify issues and design optimizations, you will need to self-sufficiently navigate production data using tools like Looker and Datadog. You will need to design things like smart algorithms for anomaly detection
- Meticulous: You pay attention to detail and take pride in what you deliver
- Articulate: You succinctly and effectively communicate verbal and written technical and non-technical ideas and topics
- Kind, not (just) nice: You provide tough feedback in a clear and concise manner that does not diminish or belittle the recipient
- Opinionated: You bring strong opinions to discussions but are willing to change your mind when presented with new or better information
- Product-minded: You focus on the “why” just as much as the “what” or “how”
- Collaborative: You work within your team and cross-functionally to build consensus and achieve results
- Autonomous: You are self-motivated, able to hold yourself accountable, and can generate high-value work with little direct supervision
What the job involves
- Reporting directly to the CEO, the Software Engineering Lead, Provider Engineering will own all of our technical relationships and integrations with insurance providers like Progressive, Allstate, and GEICO, as well as providers of new lines of business like auto loan refinancing
- Your mission will be to ensure that our shopping engine:
- Intelligently identifies which providers to request by balancing considerations like the likely quality/importance of their offer, search latency, data costs, and more
- Retrieves accurate offers informed by all available shopper data, including intelligently interpolating unavailable data inputs
- Maintains a high degree of service availability
- Grow the number of high-quality results (e.g. quotes) retrieved per search/shopper
- By integrating new providers of existing types of offers
- By systematically eliminating bugs and shortcoming in existing integrations
- Improve the R2 of our “result quality” models by driving more accurate rate estimates
- By systematically ensuring inputs are calculated, interpolated, and plumbed correctly and accurately
- By adding an intelligence layer to prevent unnecessary requests, enabling providers to activate more expensive data enrichment
- Add new kinds of offers to our search engine
- Such as auto loan refinancing
Our take
Changing insurance providers can be a daunting and overwhelming process. Its a complex and lengthy undertaking, resulting in many people sticking to the same provider, even if it doesn't best suit their needs.
Recognizing the need for a better solution is Trellis, that delivers an API platform for consumers to compare insurance policies side-by-side. It also partners with digital banks and financial institutions to offer new insurance options to their existing customers - a feature which allows it to stand out from the competition.
Trellis has seen exponential growth since founding in 2019, and has secured strong funding from the likes of Amex Ventures. The company is now in a prime position to accelerate its offerings and further innovate the insurance market.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2022
$5m
EARLY VC
Jun 2021
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $15m
Company benefits
- Bonuses and equity opportunities
- Unlimited vacation time
- 100% employer-paid insurance for employee, 60% for dependents
- 401K plan
- Annual in-person retreats
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Daniel Demetri
(Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded the insurance company, Doma. Also worked as a Product Manager at Google as well as a Product Lead/Head of Product Management at Earnest.
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