Staff Frontend Software Engineer

About Parsyl

Parsyl is an insurer of complex supply chain risks that uses enhanced data and technology to better understand, price and mitigate risk. Parsyl offers its customers more tailored underwriting, a better claims experience and insights-based risk management that reduces waste and saves money.

Parsyl operates in the US and London insurance markets through a Managing General Underwriter (MGU) and its own managed syndicate at Lloyd’s of London, which it utilizes to lead one of the largest marine cargo consortia in the London market. Parsyl has more than 20 different providers of third party capacity across its operations including delegated underwriting, consortia, reinsurance and Funds at Lloyd’s capacity providers.  

Parsyl has experienced significant growth in the last 24 months through its focus on insuring underserved food, beverage and pharmaceutical commodities in the marine cargo space. Parsyl blends new data sources and modern technology with traditional underwriting expertise to help clients build more resilient and adaptable supply chains. Parsyl offers a full suite of A-rated cargo insurance solutions, including Cargo and Stock Throughput, Shipper’s Interest, Cargo Legal Liability and Warehouse Legal Liability.

Parsyl is based in Denver, CO and London, England.

About the Role

As a Staff Frontend Software Engineer, you will play a key role in architecting and building frontend applications that support all post-bind aspects of our insurance business. This includes claims administration and policy administration systems (PAS). You will be responsible for designing how these separate applications interact and share code efficiently and across our underwriting workbench, establishing patterns for component reuse, state management, and cross-application communication.

In this role, you will architect robust frontend solutions that integrate seamlessly with our backend systems, ensuring a cohesive user experience across our insurance platforms. Your technical leadership will directly impact the scalability, maintainability, and performance of our customer-facing and internal tools.

You will collaborate closely with an experienced cross-functional team, including product management, backend engineering, design, and data engineering, to deliver well-architected frontend solutions that enhance our insurance operations.

What You'll Do

• Architect and implement frontend solutions across claims administration and policy administration systems
• Establish patterns and frameworks for code sharing and reuse across multiple frontend applications
• Design and build intuitive, responsive user interfaces that streamline complex insurance workflows
• Lead technical decisions regarding frontend architecture, state management, and component design
• Develop maintainable and scalable JavaScript/TypeScript code with a focus on performance and user experience
• Collaborate with backend teams to integrate frontend applications with APIs and data services
• Implement testing strategies and quality assurance processes for frontend applications
• Mentor other software engineers, providing technical guidance and code reviews
• Evaluate and recommend frontend technologies and frameworks that align with business goals
• Partner with product and design teams to translate complex business requirements into elegant technical solutions
• Contribute and champion our design system and component library

Requirements

Parsyl is committed to cultivating a diverse pool of candidates interested in joining a mission-driven company. We are building an inclusive team at Parsyl that welcomes different perspectives and creative ideas in order to best achieve our mission.

What we're looking for:

• 10+ years of frontend engineering experience
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and/or TypeScript
• Experience serving in an architect role for complex web applications
• Deep understanding of frontend architecture patterns and best practices
• Experience designing systems that enable code sharing across multiple applications
• Strong command of modern frontend build tools, testing frameworks, and deployment practices
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams
• Comfortable in fast-paced environment with Agile values

It's a bonus if you also have:

• Experience working within the supply chain and logistics industry
• Experience working within the insurance industry
• Experience building customer or partner-facing API solutions
• Experience building and deploying vue.js applications

Compensation

Market competitive salary with an anticipated base compensation range of $170,000-$190,000. Actual salaries will vary depending on a candidate’s location, experience, qualifications, and skills.

Additional Financial Benefits include:

• Stock options
• 401(k) including company match

Health and Wellness Benefits include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance effective on your start date (100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and 75% of premiums for dependents based on a solid, mid-tier plan)
• Six weeks of fully paid leave family and/or medical leave
• Monthly wellness benefit

Time-off and Vacation Benefits include:

• Unlimited vacation policy
• Company Breaks - quarterly mental health days, summer and winter breaks
• Paid sabbatical program

Additional Work Environment Benefits include:

• Significant career growth opportunities and continuing education stipend
• Commuter benefit of for public transportation or parking costs
• Home office set-up stipend