Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Insurance Platform

Insify; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity

Hybrid working

Pension

Alleo budget

Learning and coaching

Central Amsterdam office

Hardware & setup

Job summary

Insify is building a European insurance platform to simplify launching new products and markets. You will lead the Insurance Platform team responsible for policy lifecycles, renewals, and backoffice tooling, shaping how the platform handles future products and country additions.

You’ll work across Ireland? Europe with 3 days in-office and 2 from home, contributing to scalable architecture, observability, and AI-enabled improvements as Insify expands across markets.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building complex web applications and services, including time spent maintaining and evolving systems you designed yourself.
• Ownership & impact instinct – go beyond your direct stack to get results (data/backend/frontend).
• Real leverage from AI in daily work; able to say where it helped or hurt.
• Strong fundamentals in domain-driven design & service-oriented architecture.

Responsibilities

• Take technical leadership within a team, owning the wider picture: what you ship end to end and the operational health of what we run.
• Turn new product demands into platform capabilities and features that scale across countries and insurance product lines.
• Challenge ideas and bring your own; we encourage this mindset and expect you to push for better solutions.

Skills

Leadership

Ownership

AI in daily work

Domain-driven design

Service-oriented architecture

Observability

Tools

TypeScript

AWS

IaaC

Monorepo

Job description

ABOUT INSIFY

We sell a mix of insurance products to small businesses (SME's) in the Netherlands, Germany and France, and we are in the process of scaling into more markets.

Insurance infrastructure is brutal to get right. Every carrier has its own spec, every product its own underwriting rules, every country its own regulatory requirements. Most insurers throw people and process at that complexity - one-off integrations, workarounds on workarounds. We're building it differently: our insurance platform is where we consolidate that complexity, so that launching a new product or market becomes a configuration exercise rather than a rebuild.

Insify is a high-growth scale-up backed by more than €40M from investors like Accel, Munich Re Ventures, and Formula 1 champion Nico Rosberg. In five years we've expanded from the Netherlands into France and Germany. Our mission: become the European leader in AI-powered SME insurance.

You would join the Insurance Platform team, responsible for everything that happens after a small business buys a policy from us. You would take technical leadership in that team, and shape how the platform handles the next product and the next country, on a system already carrying live policies and real customers.

The team owns end-to-end policy lifecycle management (mid−term adjustments, automated renewals, cancellations, and payment flows) alongside the backoffice tooling that gives our operations and support teams full visibility and control. We work closely with the Claims Team, and with the Activation Teams that turn a lead into a paying customer. Product and engineering together are 30+ people.

Every country has its own regulatory quirks, and every insurance product has unique data structures, lifecycle rules, and money flows.

As we expand across Europe, our goal isn't to write custom glue code for every new launch. It's to design elegant, reusable platform abstractions. We're building a system where introducing a new country or product feels like snapping modular building blocks together.

You're joining at an exciting inflection point: we have real traction, proven scale, and you get to directly build the foundational platform that powers our next wave of European growth.

• Taking technical leadership within a team, owning the wider picture: what you ship as a team end to end, and the operational health of what we run
• Continuously and relentlessly seeking opportunities to turn new product demands into platform capabilities and features that scale across countries and insurance product lines
• Challenging our ideas and bringing your own. We encourage each other to act this way, so you can expect the same from others

• 5+ years building complex web applications and services, including time spent maintaining and evolving systems you designed yourself
• Ownership & impact instinct - when needed you go beyond your direct stack to get to results, be that data / backend / frontend
• You get real leverage out of AI in your daily work, and you can say where it helped, and where it hurt
• Strong fundamentals in domain-driven design & service oriented architecture

Not all of the above are hard requirements. If you're strong on most of these and eager to grow into the rest, we'd still love to hear from you.

• Experience building B2B products, especially in insurance & fintech
• Experience working on a product distributed across different country markets
• Strong observability instincts. You know where things will break, and can help others learn that too

TypeScript across the board, running on AWS (IaaC), in a single monorepo. If you have not worked with all of it, that is fine. We care more about how you reason about systems than about which tools you have used before.

• Competitive compensation that reflects responsibility and impact. For this role the range is €85,000 to €130,000.
• Equity. We want the people building Insify to share in its long-term success, so we run an equity program that grants options based on performance.
• Trust and autonomy. You'll have real ownership, room to make decisions, and space to shape your role as Insify evolves.
• Hybrid working. 3 days in the office, 2 from home, up to 4 weeks a year working from abroad, and 25 holiday days.
• Pension. We contribute 6% for you.
• Alleo budget. €50 net a month to spend on whatever you want, from the gym to takeaway. It rolls over if you don't use it.
• Learning and coaching. Internal leadership programs, and coaching to go with them.
• A central Amsterdam office. Shared lunches, dogs, whiteboards, and Friday drinks.
• Hardware & setup. A high-spec MacBook Pro, high-res monitors at the office, and comfortable ergonomic seating.