Location: 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!
