The Associate Software Engineer will build and maintain Python-based web applications and APIs, focusing on backend features and server-side logic with mentorship from senior engineers.
Join Sure: Building the Rails of Digital Insurance
Founded in 2015, Sure is the insurance technology leader unlocking the potential of digital insurance. We're building the digital infrastructure that powers insurance transactions between carriers, brands, and consumers. Today, only 1% of insurance transactions are truly digital, representing a $6 trillion market opportunity. Are you up for the challenge?
How We Do It
We work with insurance carriers to enable their offline-to-online transitions as well as non-insurance companies who want to launch embedded digital insurance programs. As a Software as a Service (SaaS) provider, we serve as the essential technology backbone for the digital insurance ecosystem.
Why join our team?
🌐 Remote-first culture. We work from home and embrace digital collaboration
💥 Impactful work: We're transforming a trillion-dollar industry that touches everyone's lives
🏆 Award-winning growth: Named among Deloitte Technology Fast 500, Inc. 5000, Forbes Fintech 50, and CNBC World's Top Insurtech Companies
🤝 Culture is everything. Join an incredible team of smart, passionate, collaborative and driven individuals.
We’re growing!
Sure is hiring across several teams for associate engineers looking to kick-start, restart, or continue their early career in software. You will work closely with a variety of skilled software engineers, designers, and product experts to add features, improve scalability, maintain existing systems, and build out future products within the Sure tech ecosystem.
This role is backend-focused, with Python/Django at the core, building APIs and event-driven systems that support documents, communications, rating, and billing. You’ll work on meaningful projects with guidance from senior engineers and mentorship to help you grow into an increasingly independent contributor.
What you'll be doing:
- Build and maintain Python-based web applications and APIs
- Work with relational data and ORMs (e.g. Django) to support backend features and server-side logic
- Collaborate in technical discussions and design reviews, contributing ideas and asking clarifying questions
- Participate in pull request reviews, learning from feedback and contributing to CI practices
- Contribute to team knowledge sharing and documentation (Slack, Notion, Shortcut)
- Work on features from conception to deployment with mentorship and guidance
- Collaborate with senior engineers, product managers, QA, and designers on cross-functional projects
- Participate in agile team processes like sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives
- Support teammates through pair programming and async collaboration
- Troubleshoot issues and contribute to improving reliability and performance
What we're looking for:
- 1+ year of experience as a Software Engineer
- Python preferred, with experience in Django or another modern backend framework (e.g. FastAPI, Flask). We’ll also consider candidates with experience in Ruby, Go, Node.js, Java, or C#.
- Understanding of object-oriented programming concepts
- Familiarity with REST APIs and HTTP fundamentals
- Familiarity with relational databases and ORMs (e.g. Django models, SQLAlchemy) to model and query data
- Experience with version control systems (Git)
- Exposure to testing practices and debugging techniques
- Experience working on collaborative software projects (professional, academic, or personal)
Bonus points:
- Exposure to ORM concepts such as migrations, schema changes, and data modeling
- Familiarity with AWS or other cloud platforms
- Experience with async/queues/event-driven systems
- Comfort with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, or deployment workflows
- Some frontend awareness (React, JS/TS, HTML/CSS)
Who you are:
- Self-motivated and self-managing; organizes work effectively
- Curious and eager to learn new systems and domains
- Positive, solution-oriented, and empathetic
- Comfortable asking questions and seeking help when needed
- Inclined toward visibility, inclusion, and collaboration
- Committed to continual improvement of yourself, your team, and the systems
- Proactively communicates in both meetings and async (Slack, Notion, Shortcut)
- Collaborative approach to problem-solving and decision-making
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
For more information, visit https://www.sureapp.com/. Follow @SureHQ on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Employment at Sure is contingent upon a satisfactory verification of a general and criminal background check and education and employment verification. Upon an offer of employment, all prospective employees may be required to complete an employment application. Any background verifications will be obtained with written consent from the individual.
Top Skills
AWS
Django
Docker
Git
Python
Rest Apis
Sqlalchemy
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