Senior Software Engineer
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: you'll engage in both frontend and backend development, collaborate with product and design teams on new features, and work with other engineers to scale our solutions.
What you'll do
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.
What we're looking for
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
Nice to haves
Experience working directly with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
Expertise in Django or similar
Track record in technical or project leadership
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 New York City, Colorado, California, and other applicable laws, Spark is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. Individual pay decisions 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 current salary range is listed below. We expect most candidates to fall in the middle of the range. We also believe that your personal needs and preferences should be taken into consideration, so we allow some choice between equity and cash.
Base Salary
$170,000—$210,000 USD