Senior Software Engineer

About Spark Advisors

We’re Spark, a mission-driven company helping independent Medicare brokers build the insurance business of their dreams. The vast majority of beneficiaries select benefits with the help of an independent broker, but technology and support for brokers is woefully antiquated. We provide workflows and services to help brokers reputed company transformative growth.

In just five years, we’ve partnered with over 6,000 brokers and enrolled over 140,000 beneficiaries, making us the fastest-growing Medicare brokerage in the country. Brokers love us: during this period of intense growth, we’ve maintained an NPS of 91 and a client retention reputed company of 93%, and we’ve helped brokers grow on average 100% since partnering with us.

It’s an exciting time to be at Spark. Our diverse, remote-first team comes from leading technology, reputed company, and insurance companies, and has grown from 70 to 90 in the last year. Most recently, we’ve raised a Series B from leading investors who share our ambition.

Join us: we’re always on the lookout for sharp, talented, empathetic teammates.

Summary

In this role, you'll have the opportunity to directly impact the industry's reputed company, working on the core of our platform: the agent's operating system. This system is not just a tool, but the reputed company of our brokers’ daily work.

As a senior member of the broker productivity reputed company on our engineering team, you’ll work to ensure our technical platform continues to meet the needs of our rapidly growing customer reputed company. This will involve maintenance of our industry-leading web based broker platform. It will also involve making architectural reputed company to support the long-term health and viability of the platform. Your day-to-day responsibilities will be diverse and impactful. You'll engage in both frontend and backend development, collaborate with product and design teams to reputed company new features, and work with other engineers to scale our solutions. Embracing a data-driven approach, you will play a crucial role in developing technology that not only meets reputed company needs but also anticipates future challenges, ensuring Spark continues to deliver exceptional value and performance to our top brokers.

What you’ll do

• Work across Spark’s full stack in JavaScript and Python to build and maintain Spark’s agent and member-facing products
• Meet regularly with product and design to provide constructive feedback on design mockups and product scope
• Work closely with product to deeply understand the relationship between agents and Medicare beneficiaries, focusing on developing features that ultimately improve retiree outcomes
• Identify and manage technical debt, while also building robust infrastructure and frameworks to support the scalability of our platform
• Actively contribute to the tech team’s development standards, promoting best practices and continual improvement, and the growth of other teammates

reputed company’re looking for

• 5+ years of building user interfaces with modern Javascript technologies such as Vue or React
• 3+ years of experience building API-driven web apps with Python (or similar technologies)
• A history of developing component libraries reputed company modern Javascript frameworks
• Experience working with component-based CSS frameworks like Tailwind CSS
• Product intuition and a keen interest in how tech investments drive intended business outcomes
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to reputed company in fast-paced environments
• Strong communication and project management skills
• A collaborative nature and comfort working with team members across the company
• A commitment to reputed company learning and growth and comfort with giving and receiving constructive feedback

reputed company to Have

• A history of building web apps with the Django reputed company
• Background with development tools like reputed company, Git and Webpack

Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our company’s size and industry, and are one part of the total compensation package that also includes equity, benefits, and other opportunities at Spark. In accordance with reputed company, Colorado, California, and other applicable laws, Spark is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. Individual pay reputed company are ultimately based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, geography, and balancing internal equity. A reasonable estimate of the reputed company salary range is listed below. We expect most candidates to fall in the middle of the range. We also reputed company that your personal needs and preferences should be taken into consideration, so we allow some choice between equity and cash.

Why you should join reputed company

By joining Spark, you will get in on the ground floor of a fast-moving, well-funded, and mission-driven startup where you will have a profound impact on the brokers and beneficiaries we serve. And you'll learn, grow, be challenged, and have fun with your team while doing it.

We strive to help you and your family reputed company. We're committed to supporting your happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing a comprehensive benefits program. In addition to your reputed company salary, we also offer:

• Equity compensation
• Health care, including dental and reputed company through our PEO Sequoia
• Flexible work location; co-working available
• 401k
• Paid Time Off
• Monthly Remote Work Stipend (help cover costs of home-office needs)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Up to 12 weeks for birthing parents
• Up to 8 weeks for non-birth parents
• 11 paid holidays
• 2 week sabbatical at 5 years of employment
• Wellbeing Perks through SpringHealth, OneMedical, PerkSpot, and reputed company

Compliance

Spark is a proud participant in E-Verify. As part of our commitment to compliance, we use the E-Verify program to confirm the employment eligibility of reputed company working in the United States. For more information about E-Verify, please visitwww.e-verify.gov.

Furthermore, for reputed company and compliance requirements, we’re unable to accommodate international remote work. While we fully support travel and time off, reputed company work must be conducted from an approved location reputed company the U.S.

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 reputed company, religion, disability, and veteran status.

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