Staff Engineer - Insurance Platform

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Porch Group is a leading vertical software and insurance platform and is positioned to be the best partner to help homebuyers move, maintain, and fully protect their homes. We offer differentiated products and services, with homeowners insurance at the center of this relationship. We differentiate and look to win in the massive and growing homeowners insurance opportunity by 1) providing the best services for homebuyers, 2) led by advantaged underwriting in insurance, 3) to protect the whole home. As a leader in the home services software-as-a-service ("SaaS") space, we've built deep relationships with approximately 30 thousand companies that are key to the home-buying transaction, such as home inspectors, mortgage companies, and title companies. In 2020, Porch Group rang the Nasdaq bell and began trading under the ticker symbol PRCH. We are looking to build a truly great company and are JUST GETTING STARTED. Job Title: Staff Engineer, Insurance Platform Location: United States Workplace Type: Remote Job Summary The future is bright for the Porch Group, and we'd love for you to be a part of it as our Staff Engineer, Insurance Platform. Porch is reimagining what it means to be an insurance technology company - and we're doing it from the inside out. As a Staff Engineer on our Insurance Platform team, you'll architect the foundational systems that power how we underwrite, administer, and scale insurance products. We're an AI-first organization, which means you won't just be building for today's requirements - you'll be designing systems intelligent enough to evolve alongside the business. This is a rare greenfield opportunity. You'll bring deep expertise in insurance domain systems - the kind that comes from having built, scaled, or rearchitected complex policy lifecycle platforms - and you'll apply that knowledge to shape something new. If you've ever looked at legacy insurance infrastructure and thought "I know exactly how to do this better," this is your moment. What You Will Do As A Staff Engineer, Insurance Platform AI-Native Engineering - How We Build - Use agentic AI coding tools as the primary development methodology for the platform build - not as an experimental side channel - Define agent configuration patterns, custom skills, and CI/CD integration that make AI-assisted development reliable and auditable at production scale - Build evaluation frameworks, quality gates, and pre-commit hooks that ensure agent-generated code meets our standards - Orchestrate multi-agent workflows for parallel feature delivery; lead the team in spec-driven coding, context management, and productive AI-assisted practices - Mentor the broader engineering team on AI-assisted development and evolve those practices as tooling and models advance AI Capability in the Platform - What We Build - Architect agentic capabilities directly into the platform: agent-assisted configuration, AI-driven underwriting decisioning, automated document understanding for declarations and endorsements, and conversational interfaces for the operations team - Design RAG pipelines, retrieval architectures, and tool-use patterns that ground LLM behavior in regulated insurance content (rate manuals, underwriting guidelines, state-specific rules) - Define integration patterns (MCP, function calling, structured outputs) that expose platform capabilities cleanly to internal agents and external partners - Establish AI observability, evaluation, and cost-management frameworks so production agent behavior is measurable, debuggable, and bounded - Set responsible-AI guardrails that keep agent-influenced decisions auditable and aligned with insurance regulatory requirements (NAIC AI bulletin, state DOI expectations) Platform Architecture & Build - Design and build core PAS services: quoting, rating, binding, issuance, endorsements, renewals, cancellations, and reinstatements - Own the technical architecture for a modular, API-first platform supporting multi-state, multi-carrier homeowners insurance - Build the rating engine, product configuration layer, and rules framework that allow business teams to launch new states and products without engineering bottlenecks - Define data models for policy lifecycle, exposure management, and regulatory compliance (bureau reporting, NAIC data submissions, state filing requirements) - Establish event-driven patterns and integration architecture for the dozen-plus carrier, vendor, and partner systems the platform must connect with Transformation & Migration - Lead the engineering strategy to migrate off existing vendor PAS platforms onto our custom-built platform - Design migration tooling: automated data extraction, transformation, validation, and reconciliation pipelines - Run shadow comparisons of new platform output against incumbent systems before each cutover - Maintain production stability on existing platforms while simultaneously building the replacement Technical Leadership - Partner with the Director of I