[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @Spark Advisors

Role Description

Spark is looking to bring on a Senior Software Engineer that will drive progress in the Medicare industry's evolution. As a senior member of our engineering team, you'll work to ensure our technical platform continues to meet the needs of our rapidly growing customer base. This will involve delivering impactful feature sets to our industry-leading web-based broker platform while making architectural decisions to support its long-term health and stability.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will be diverse:

• Deliver impactful full-stack features that will benefit Medicare brokers and beneficiaries
• Work closely with product to understand the relationship between agents and Medicare beneficiaries, developing features that improve retiree outcomes
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide constructive feedback on design mockups and product scope
• Identify and manage technical debt while building robust architectures to support platform scalability
• Actively contribute to development standards by promoting best practices and giving constructive feedback in code reviews and technical designs
• Build with modern AI-powered developer tools that remove friction and let you focus on meaningful problems - and help us continue to grow how we use them across the team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience with either modern JS (Vue, React) or Python/backend web development, with meaningful hands-on experience in both
• Comfort with ambiguity; ability to thrive in fast-paced environments
• Product intuition and a keen interest in how tech investments drive business outcomes
• Fluency with AI-powered development tools as part of your everyday workflow
• Strong communication and project management skills
• Attention to detail and a history of technical excellence shipping customer-facing products
• Commitment to a growth-oriented team culture focused on learning, continuous improvement, and winning together

Requirements

• Experience working directly with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
• Expertise in Django or similar
• Track record in technical or project leadership

Benefits

• Equity compensation
• Health care, including dental and vision 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 14 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 SoFi