Staff Software Engineer (Full-Stack, Front-End Led) | Contract-to-Hire | Remote | No sponsorship offered
We’re partnering with a leading insurance organization to hire a Staff Software Engineer who will build the application people actually use on their brand-new platform.
This is an application build, and the front end is where it comes to life. You’ll be one of the first engineers on a greenfield platform, shaping the React experience from the first screen, with the C#/.NET services behind it and the AWS foundation underneath. You’ll own the full stack for your business domain: how the UI is structured, how it talks to the services, and how the whole application hangs together. Insurance workflows are complex, and your job is to make them feel clear and intuitive.
You’ll work closely with the Director of Engineering and cross-functional partners, setting technical direction and writing production code every week. You’ll also help decide where to adopt vendor platforms and where to build your own experiences on top of them. AI-assisted tools like Copilot or Cursor are part of how the team works day to day, and you’ll help set that standard.
The tech stack
- Front end: React
- Back end: C#/.NET, with Python alongside the core stack
- Cloud: AWS
- Ways of working: AI-assisted development (Copilot, Cursor) across coding, testing, debugging and refactoring
- Nice to have: GraphQL, event-driven architecture and microservices
What you’ll bring
You’re a Staff engineer with 8+ years of experience who has owned and delivered complex, production-grade applications from UI to data. You’re strongest on the front end, with deep React experience and a good eye for component design, usability and maintainable UI architecture, but you’re comfortable building the C#/.NET services behind the interface and running them on AWS. You’ve worked with third-party vendor platforms and know how to judge what to adopt, what to extend and what to build yourself. You use AI-assisted development tools across coding, testing, debugging and refactoring, and you can bring the rest of the team along. You’ve also written Python alongside your core stack.
All of the above are must-haves: React, C#/.NET, AWS, vendor platform experience, AI-assisted development and Python.
It would also help if you have:
- Experience in insurance, financial services, healthcare or another regulated environment, including designing for sensitive data (PII/PHI)
- Familiarity with event-driven architecture and microservices, and the data pipelines that feed the application
- GraphQL or semantic-layer exposure
- Experience working with contractors or offshore teams
You’re curious, collaborative and open to feedback, and you’d rather be hands-on than only advising. You raise the bar for the engineers around you through mentoring and code review.
Why this role is different
You’re joining at the very start of a new platform, not maintaining a legacy system. You’ll have real influence over the application and user experience from day one, the chance to shape how a new engineering team works, and a clear path to grow with the platform.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
If you’re interested, apply today or get in touch for a confidential conversation.
