Staff Software Engineer

Spark

Staff Software Engineer developing full-stack features for a Medicare platform using modern JavaScript and Python. Mentoring engineers while driving technical direction and delivering impactful solutions.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $195,000 - $225,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaScriptPythonReactVue.js

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Deliver impactful full-stack features that benefit Medicare brokers and beneficiaries, while setting the quality bar for how the team builds
Partner closely with product and design leadership to shape scope, surface tradeoffs, and influence roadmap decisions
Own system-level decisions within your product domain, drive key system and architectural decisions that ensure our platform is set up for elegant solutions to our customers’ problems
Identify systemic sources of technical debt and own their resolution, balancing short-term velocity with long-term platform health
Establish and evolve engineering standards - from code review practices to system design principles - leading by example and mentoring engineers around you
Build with modern AI-powered developer tools that remove friction and let you focus on meaningful problems, and help us continue to grow how we use them across the team

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of professional experience with either modern JS (Vue, React) or Python/backend web development, with meaningful hands-on experience in both
Comfort with ambiguity; ability to thrive in fast-paced environments
Product intuition and a track record of connecting technical investments to business outcomes and influencing roadmap decisions upstream of execution
Fluency with AI-powered development tools as part of your everyday workflow
Exceptional communication skills - able to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and vice versa
Demonstrated track record of leading architectural decisions at the domain level and shipping customer-facing products with technical excellence
Commitment to a growth-oriented team culture focused on learning, continuous improvement, and winning together.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity compensation
Health care, including dental and vision through our PEO Sequoia
Flexible work location; co-working available
401k
Paid Time Off
Monthly Remote Work Stipend (help cover costs of home-office needs)
Paid Parental Leave
Up to 14 weeks for birthing parents
Up to 8 weeks for non-birth parents
11 paid holidays
2 week sabbatical at 5 years of employment
Wellbeing Perks through SpringHealth, OneMedical, PerkSpot, and SoFi

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaScriptVueReactPythonweb developmentsystem designcode reviewarchitectural decisionstechnical debt resolutionAI-powered development tools

Soft Skills

communication skillsproduct intuitionability to thrive in ambiguityinfluencing roadmap decisionsmentoringcommitment to team culturecontinuous improvementleading by exampletranslating technical conceptscollaboration