Technical Lead/API Integrations (Remote)

*No C2C or third parties*

Our client, a modern E&S carrier recognized for their team of world-class product development and underwriting team leaders, is looking to hire a Technical Lead/API Integration. This is a hands‑on engineering role with high visibility and a direct line of sight to business outcomes. The Tech Lead will oversee and have complete ownership of building their fully API driven rating and quoting platform, turning it into a real, owned, end-to-end quoting engine.

This role will work closely with the CIO and be a key builder of their internal engineering culture from day one.

The Role

You’ll be the internal technical expert for:

• API integrations with MGAs, comparative raters, and vendor platforms
• Rating environments and Python‑based rating modules
• Backend connectivity across internal systems and external partners

What You’ll Do

Own & evolve the rating and integration platform

• Build and maintain API integrations with MGAs, comparative rating vendors, and internal systems
• Design, develop, and support Python-based rating modules exposed via REST APIs
• Manage data transformations and payloads (JSON/XML), including mapping between carrier, vendor, and internal data structures
• Stabilize and harden the current prototype (document endpoints, remove brittle logic, improve observability and error handling)

Build toward a fully automated quote-bind-issue flow

Help design and implement APIs for:

• Rating & pricing
• Underwriting decisions
• Bind & policy issuance
• Support book‑of‑business conversions, rating indications, and integration of contract data from partners
• Work within and improve our home‑grown rating environment, bringing structure, standards, and testability

Collaborate across tech & business

• Work directly with underwriting, operations, and business stakeholders to ensure your solutions reflect real underwriting needs
• Partner with external vendors (e.g., comparative raters, insurtech platforms) to integrate the business as a first‑class carrier
• Help define engineering standards, tools, and architecture as we grow the team

What We’re Looking For

• Strong experience with API development and backend integrations
• Ability to design, build, and troubleshoot end‑to‑end API workflows (auth, error handling, versioning, logging, monitoring)
• Solid experience with Python in a production environment
• Experience with insurance rating systems, underwriting workflows, or policy administration (E&S is a plus)
• Familiarity with comparative raters / marketplaces (e.g., Semsee, Tarmika, IVANS, etc.)
• Experience designing domain models for insurance or other financial products
• Background in event‑driven architectures, microservices, or building internal platforms/APIs for other teams

Summary

This isn’t “maintain the legacy system” engineering. You’ll be turning a working prototype into a real, owned platform that automates the entire insurance lifecycle, from quote → bind → policy issuance.

Your work will directly influence pricing competitiveness, operational efficiency, and partner/broker experience.

Email [email protected] for additional information!