Senior Software Engineer, Insurance at Porch Group

Compensation

$168,800 – $236,300/yr

Setup: Remote
Type: Full-time
Level: Senior
Posted: Jul 1, 2026

Description

Porch Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Insurance to join their team. This role involves building and owning key services for their insurance platform, focusing on AI-first development methodologies. The engineer will contribute to designing and implementing core PAS services, integrating LLM capabilities, and ensuring robust platform architecture. They will collaborate with product and insurance SMEs, participate in design reviews, and guide junior engineers.

Required Skills

Python
Java
distributed systems
event-driven architecture
API-first design
data modeling
LLM-integrated features
RAG pipelines
tool use
agent workflows
agentic AI coding tools

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating backend services in production.
Demonstrated ability to lead at least one project from conception to production, breaking work into reasonably sized, well-tested releases.
Preferred Qualifications: Exposure to homeowners or other personal-lines P&C insurance systems, or eagerness to ramp deeply on the domain.
Experience contributing to a custom-built policy administration system, or to a migration off a legacy/vendor PAS (data migration, parallel-run validation, cutover).
Experience with AI evaluation, observability for agent runs, prompt and model versioning, or AI cost-management.
Working knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP), function calling, and structured outputs, and patterns for grounding LLMs in regulated content.
Familiarity with regulatory frameworks: SERFF rate filings, NAIC data calls, state DOI requirements, and the NAIC AI bulletin.
Working knowledge of insurance data standards (ACORD, MISMO) and the open-source PCDM data model.
Background in cloud-native infrastructure (GCP preferred), event streaming (Kafka), and modern observability practices.