Staff Software Engineer, Spark
$195-225k
Offers equity
Helping Medicare brokers build the insurance business of their dreams
Be an early applicant
Helping Medicare brokers build the insurance business of their dreams
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$195-225k
Offers equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help independent Medicare brokers build the insurance business of their dreams.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ 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 track record of connecting technical investments to business outcomes and influencing roadmap decisions upstream of execution
- Fluency with AI-powered development tools as part of your everyday workflow
- Exceptional communication skills - able to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and vice versa
- Demonstrated track record of leading architectural decisions at the domain level and shipping customer-facing products with technical excellence
- Commitment to a growth-oriented team culture focused on learning, continuous improvement, and winning together
Desirable
- Experience working directly with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
- Expertise in Django or similar
- Track record of defining technical strategy at the domain or team level
- History of raising engineering standards through mentorship and code review culture
What the job involves
- Spark is looking to bring on a Staff Software Engineer that will drive progress in the Medicare industry’s evolution
- As a staff-level member of our engineering team, you’ll own meaningful pieces of our technical roadmap and set a high bar for how we build
- This will involve delivering impactful feature sets to our industry-leading web-based broker platform, making architectural decisions to support its long-term health and stability, and shaping the technical direction of your product domain
- Your day-to-day responsibilities will be diverse: you’ll engage in both frontend and backend development, partner with product and design leadership on scope and tradeoffs, mentor engineers around you, and own the long-term technical health of the systems you work in - including knowing when a system needs to be replaced, not just improved
- Deliver impactful full-stack features that benefit Medicare brokers and beneficiaries, while setting the quality bar for how the team builds
- Partner closely with product and design leadership to shape scope, surface tradeoffs, and influence roadmap decisions
- Own system-level decisions within your product domain, drive key system and architectural decisions that ensure our platform is set up for elegant solutions to our customers’ problems
- Identify systemic sources of technical debt and own their resolution, balancing short-term velocity with long-term platform health
- Establish and evolve engineering standards - from code review practices to system design principles - leading by example and mentoring engineers around you
- 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
Our take
Medicare is the national health insurance package for US citizens over the age of 65, with most people that seek to enrol in a plan making use of brokers to help them evaluate and select options. Spark is a technology company and “concierge” service that partners with independent Medicare brokers and provides a platform that helps them navigate and build retirement benefit packages for customers.
Handling the marketing, sales support, back office, and compliance requirements of Medicare brokering, Spark bridges the gap between insurance agents and their customers. The company already has partnerships with more than 100 leading Medicare agencies that represent over 3400 brokers, a good starting point from which to grow.
Agetech is a growing market, due to an aging population and longer lifespans, and Spark has benefitted from an increased demand and interest in Medicare brokering. Highlighting this is its 2024 raise of a $25 million Series B funding round that will support its future growth and product development.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2024
$25m
SERIES B
Jan 2023
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $53.6m
Company benefits
- Paid holidays - Everyone needs a healthy, happy, and productive life. This means you'll need time to rest & recover without restrictive holiday limits
- Flexible, remote working - We want you to work when and where you're most productive, whether you’re an early bird or a night owl
- Medical, dental and vision benefits - Enjoy the best medical, dental and optical coverage money can buy. We've got you and your family covered for all eventualities
- Meaningful equity - You’ll be contributing to the team's success, so you deserve to share in it. Everyone in our team gets a meaningful equity allocation
- Top of the line equipment - We’ll set you up with the right tools to do your best work—starting with a MacBook Pro, 4K monitors, & the right software to get the job done
- Parental Leave - Up to 12 weeks for birthing parents and up to 8 weeks for non birth parents
- 2 week Sabbatical after 5 years of employment
- Wellbeing Perks through SpringHealth, OneMedical, PerkSpot, and SoFi
- Monthly Remote Work Stipend (help cover costs of home-office needs)
- 401K
- A team that cares - You’ll be joining a team of smart, capable, helpful people that want you to win, our clients to be wowed, and our business to grow
Company values
- Take nothing for granted: We serve partners and clients with unique needs and backgrounds. Our team's empathy reflects that diversity
- Strive for excellence: We are ambitious, self-reflective and committed to growth
- Explicit accountability, broad responsibility: We clearly identify ownership, anticipate the needs of our teammates, and reward proactive initiative
- Succeed as a team: We celebrate wins, small and large, and recognize that success is a team effort
Company HQ
Flatiron District
Articles
Leadership
James Jiang
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Co-Founder at Roster, Analyst at Night Owl Capital and part of the Restraucturing and Reorganisation Team at The Blackstone Group.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Spark
- At Spark, we are committed to hiring the best team to serve our clients regardless of their background. We need diverse perspectives to reflect the diversity of our problems and the population we serve. We look to hire people from a variety of backgrounds, including, but not limited to, race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, disability, and veteran status.
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