Senior Full-Stack Engineer — Remote, Architecture & Mentorship

Midwest Startups; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first company culture

Job summary

Kin is a remote-first company building smarter homeowners insurance and related products. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with a full stack focus to help us scale our customer experiences and internal platforms.

As a senior member, you’ll own complex technical challenges, contribute to architectural direction, and mentor engineers to elevate engineering practices across the team. You’ll collaborate with Product, QA, PMO, and other engineers to deliver meaningful outcomes.

Qualifications

• Track record of shipping large, complex software projects in production environments.
• Familiarity with backend development using Ruby, Python, or similar OO languages.
• Experience designing scalable software architecture and contributing to technical direction.
• Ability to evaluate and communicate the business value of technical investments.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and optimize scalable full stack applications using Typescript, PostgreSQL, and modern frontend frameworks.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code across frontend and backend systems, including occasional contributions in Ruby and Python.
• Lead pair programming sessions, code reviews, and technical mentorship for junior engineers.
• Drive architectural and technical design discussions that improve scalability, reliability, and developer experience.
• Collaborate closely with Product, QA, PMO, and cross‑functional stakeholders to deliver customer‑focused solutions.
• Participate actively in Agile ceremonies, including daily standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Identify and execute technical improvements that increase system performance, maintainability, and operational efficiency.
• Provide technical guidance and subject matter expertise during planning, implementation, and incident resolution

Skills

Typescript

Ruby

PostgreSQL

Mentorship

Architecture

Tools

Ruby

Python

PostgreSQL

Job description

Kin is a remote-first company building smarter homeowners insurance and related products. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with a full stack focus to help us scale our customer experiences and internal platforms.

As a senior member, you’ll own complex technical challenges, contribute to architectural direction, and mentor engineers to elevate engineering practices across the team. You’ll collaborate with Product, QA, PMO, and other engineers to deliver meaningful outcomes.