Software Engineer I

Spark is looking for a Software Engineer to be a part of our tech team that’s transforming the way insurance brokers do business. In the industry, beneficiaries face the significant challenge of choosing the right insurance plan while managing other complexities like providers, prescriptions, and intricate plan details. This overwhelming scenario underscores the need for brokers who are people-centric but brokers’ workflows and processes are inefficient and broken. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to directly impact the industry's evolution, working on the core of our platform: the agent's operating system. This system is not just a tool, but the foundation of our brokers’ daily work.

As a vital member of our engineering team, your day-to-day responsibilities will be diverse and impactful. You'll engage in both backend and frontend development, collaborate with product and design teams to innovate new functionalities, and work with other engineers to scale our solutions for a rapidly growing customer base. Embracing a data-driven approach, you will play a crucial role in developing technology that not only meets current needs but also anticipates future challenges, ensuring Spark continues to deliver exceptional value and performance to our top brokers.

Department Product & Engineering

Employment Type Full Time

Location Remote

Workplace type Fully remote

Compensation $110,000 - $135,000 / year

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

What we’re looking for

• Experience using web development frameworks such as Vue or React for frontend or Django or Rails for backend

• Familiarity with ES6+ JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3

• Experience building API-driven products

• Strong sense of web design and the fundamentals of user experience

• Product intuition and a keen interest in how tech investments drive intended business outcomes

• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to thrive 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 continuous learning and growth and experience giving and receiving constructive feedback

• (nice to have) Background with development tools like Docker, Git and Webpack

• (nice to have) Experience working with component-based CSS frameworks like Tailwind CSS

What you'll get

• The base salary range for this role is $110,000 - $135,000*

• Equity compensation

• Health care, including dental and vision through our PEO Sequoia

• Twice a year in-person retreats

• Flexible work location; co-working available

• Workspace budget

• An engaged, supportive and growth-oriented team environment

• • Spark is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Spark salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

About Spark Advisors

Spark’s mission is empower the best independent Medicare brokers to deliver better service to more clients. Brokers play a critical role in onboarding and serving clients onto their healthcare experience, but brokers themselves are woefully underserved by technology and service. Spark is changing that.

Our vision is to pair every Medicare beneficiary with an expert and aligned personal health advisor. Since launching in 2020, we’ve grown to become the fastest growing brokerage platform in the country, serving over 3,000 ambitious brokers and hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries. We've raised nearly $20mm from equally ambitious investors.

We’re a remote first company that values a diversity of perspectives and is receptive to candidates from all backgrounds. If your experience doesn’t precisely match the job description, still email us!

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