Staff Software Engineer

About the role

At Polly, we've created the future of car insurance. Our innovative mobile technology enables car-buyers to view multiple insurance quotes and immediately purchase online and/or connect with licensed insurance agents. This is all powered by our people. We are bold trailblazers who are passionate about doing amazing things - together. If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

• Our engineering team is hiring a staff-level engineer who combines strong technical skills with a "can-do" attitude, who continuously thinks about quality and modern engineering practices. The most qualified candidates will exhibit the following competencies and work attributes:
• Quality-Driven Engineering
• Thinks about testing, reliability, and quality early in the development lifecycle.
• Advocates for automated testing, strong observability, and resilient design.
• Helps catch issues earlier through tooling, process, and engineering discipline.
• Automated Testing Expertise
• Deep experience with unit, integration and end-to-end testing strategies.
• Builds and maintains high-quality CI/CD pipeline.
• Drives maintainable, well-tested code and modern development practices.
• AI/ML Awareness
• Comfortable exploring AI-assisted development, integrating AI services, or using AI for automation, data quality, or governance.
• Can evaluate AI tools for practical impact.
• Leadership & Mentorship
• Guides and mentors' engineers across levels, promoting best practices.
• Influences architecture and technical strategy while staying pragmatic and solutions focused.
• Personality & Work Style
• Positive, proactive, collaborative, and solution oriented.
• Comfortable working remotely across distributed teams.
• Strong communicator who can partner with engineering and product leaders.
• WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED:
• Key Technical Experience
• Strong backend and/or frontend development (C#, .NET, React, Python, or similar).
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred) and microservices architecture.
• Proven experience with automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and observability/monitoring.
• WORK AND LIFE BALANCED, WE'RE HERE FOR YOU:
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• HSA, FSA, Dependent Care FSA and Commuter pre-tax benefit
• Flextime PTO and generous holiday time
• Paid Parental leave + baby cash
• Matching 401(k) contributions
• Employer paid Life Insurance
• Life & disability Insurance
• Work from anywhere options
• About Polly
• Salary - $125k-$145k
• Salary $125,000 - $145,000 annually

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