Staff Software Engineer - Product-Agnostic Platform (Remote)

We’re partnering with a leading insurance organization on their search for a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical direction of a product-agnostic platform, one that can support multiple products without a new platform being built each time.

This is a high-impact, individual contributor role with real technical leadership. You’ll operate beyond the boundaries of a single team, setting architectural direction on an in-flight initiative to move from hard-coded, product-specific builds to a configurable, reusable platform. You’ll stay hands-on, work closely with Product, Engineering Management and senior stakeholders, and help teams make sound, sustainable technical decisions., * Leading technical direction and architecture for the platform, and aligning teams around shared principles.

• Driving complex, cross-team initiatives by breaking down ambiguous problems and coordinating dependencies.
• Shaping the move from hard-coded, product-specific builds to a configurable, reusable platform.
• Raising engineering standards across testing, observability, CI/CD and operational readiness.
• Leading discovery and proofs of concept, including AI use cases, and taking validated ideas into production responsibly.
• Mentoring Senior Engineers and strengthening technical capability across teams.
• Representing engineering in roadmap and prioritisation discussions with Product, Engineering Management and senior stakeholders.
• Staying hands-on by contributing code, prototypes and designs, and reviewing critical changes where it adds leverage.

• Staff-level leadership: a proven track record operating at Staff Engineer level (or equivalent), driving complex initiatives across team boundaries. This role is not a step-up from Senior.
• Production ownership: genuine experience owning and supporting systems that are deployed and running, not just building them.
• Experience: 10+ years designing, building and operating production software systems.
• Tech stack: hands-on experience with TypeScript, Python and C++ on AWS.
• Communication: exceptional communication skills with strong executive presence, and comfort presenting technical ideas to senior, non-technical audiences., * Experience building multi-product or configurable platforms would be highly relevant.
• Strong architecture experience across distributed systems, scalability, reliability and security.
• Observability and monitoring experience, including metrics, logs, tracing, alerting and incident response.
• Exposure to AI tooling and responsible AI practices., * A Staff Engineer who leads through judgement and collaboration rather than authority.
• Someone who can translate business problems into technical strategy and explain trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• A pragmatic, practical approach to AI, focused on real business value rather than hype.
• A genuine interest in developing other engineers and strengthening technical capability across teams.
• Comfort working with ambiguity, breaking big problems into actionable plans with clear ownership.
• No insurance background required. We’re keen to hear from candidates outside the industry who bring a fresh perspective.