Porch Group

Porch Group

Staff Engineer - Insurance Platform

US WA Remote - Non Seattle, USA · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$188k-$238kDetected 29 days ago
PythonJavaDistributed SystemsGCPCI/CDKafkaLLMsRAGAgentic AIComplianceRecruitingPatient CareLeadershipMentoringUnderwriting

About the role

  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • 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
  • Build evaluation frameworks, quality gates, and pre-commit hooks that ensure agent-generated code meets our standards
  • lead the team in spec-driven coding, context management, and productive AI-assisted practices
  • 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
  • Orchestrate multi-agent workflows for parallel feature delivery; lead the team in spec-driven coding, context management, and productive AI-assisted practices
  • Platform Architecture & Build

Nice to have

  • Define data models for policy lifecycle, exposure management, and regulatory compliance (bureau reporting, NAIC data submissions, state filing requirements)
  • Run shadow comparisons of new platform output against incumbent systems before each cutover
  • Stay hands-on - this is not a whiteboard architect role
  • you write production code
  • Homeowners or other personal-lines P&C domain depth
  • auto and home strongly preferred
  • Production-grade engineering depth in Python, Java, or a comparable backend language
  • comfortable across the stack from data model to API to deployment

Skills

  • Mentor the broader engineering team on AI-assisted development and evolve those practices as tooling and models advance
  • Establish AI observability, evaluation, and cost-management frameworks so production agent behavior is measurable, debuggable, and bounded

Compensation

  • Pay Range*: $187,500 - $237,500 annually

Benefits

  • Our traditional healthcare benefits include three (3) Medical plan options, two (2) Dental plan options, and a Vision plan from which to choose.
  • We offer pre-tax savings options including a partially employer funded Health Savings Account and employee Flexible Savings Accounts including healthcare, dependent care, and transportation savings options.
  • We provide company paid Basic Life and AD&D, Short and Long-Term Disability benefits.
  • LifeBalance is a free resource to employees and their families for year-round discounts on things like gym memberships, travel, appliances, movies, pet insurance and more.

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