Kin Insurance · 1 day ago
Staff Software Engineer, Front-End Focus
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$152K/yr - $200K/yr
8+ years expKin is a digital insurer focused on the home insurance market, aiming to provide smarter, faster, and customer-centric solutions. The Staff Software Engineer will lead architectural vision and mentor multiple scrum teams, ensuring high-quality software delivery and collaboration across departments.
FinanceProperty & Casualty InsuranceFinancial ServicesInsuranceInsurTechProperty Insurance
Responsibilities
Leading and defining full-stack Architecture
Writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code Ruby and Typescript
Setting the standard for Engineering team leading by example
Delivering stories, tasks, or entire features
Leading pair programming sessions and providing mentorship to team members
Attending management meetings as well as daily stands
Collaborating with Design, Product, and other developers to implement new features
Contributing to the continual improvement of our code base though refactoring, iteration, test writing, and experimentation
Helping Kin continue to scale and grow our systems and teams
Delivering applications that are fast, reliability, and scalable (both public and internally facing)
Qualification
Required
8+ years of professional software engineering experience
Expert proficiency in front end methodologies and languages (we use Typescript, Lit and Angular)
The experience to building and designing distributed, full stack solutions
Experience with architectural planning, design and documentation
Ability to articulate value of technical investments with stakeholders
Ability to identify and mitigate technical risks
Ability to operate with little-to-no technical guidance
Ability to lead and guide teams through execution
Excellent communication skills, coupled with the knack for simplifying complexity to enhance comprehension
Experience mentoring engineers at all levels
Comfortable in a high-growth startup environment – we're fast-paced, self-motivated, and determined to change the industry
A fast learner, ready to bring previous knowledge to this position and continue developing along the way
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance
Short and Long Term Disability Insurance options
Employee Assistance Program
Accident insurance
Hospital indemnity
Critical illness
Legal assistance
Pet insurance
401K with company match of up to 4% of eligible earnings
Flexible PTO for exempt employees (employees typically take 15-20 days annually), along with 8 company-observed holidays
A paid parental leave program that provides 100% salary continuation of up to 14 weeks for birthing parents and 8 weeks for non birthing parents
Continuing education and professional development opportunities
Company
Kin Insurance
Kin Insurance is a direct-to-consumer digital insurance provider that enhances convenience and customization in coverage options.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Kin Insurance has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (2)
2024 (1)
2023 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$753.16MKey Investors
Runway Growth CapitalActivate Capital Partners,QED InvestorsWellington Management
2025-10-09Debt Financing· $45M
2025-09-09Series E· $50M
2025-03-25Debt Financing· $200M
Leadership Team
Sean Harper
CEO and Co Founder
Alex Mitchell
Senior Director of Product Management
Recent News
500 global
2026-01-13
2025-10-23
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