Principal/Sr Staff Engineer
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- Experience
- Senior
- Where you can live
- US, Canada only
- Skills and tools
- typescript, aws
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Job details
- Where you can work
- United States, Canada
- Employment type
- Not stated by the employer
- Advertised pay
- Not stated by the employer
- Experience
- Senior
- Employer publication date
- 28 April 2026
- First recorded by Psst
- 12 October 2026
- Last checked at the source
- 10 November 2026
About the job
If you’re looking to be one of the first engineers at an early stage, rapidly growing startup, let’s chat!
The company is building the infrastructure that powers best-in-class insurance experiences. We empower consumers to gain value and convenience from their own data, and we enable businesses to securely and quickly support their customers.
We are a product-oriented, distributed engineering team seeking exceptional engineers to drive our mission forward.
As a Principal/Sr Staff Engineer, you will work closely with our VP Engineering to work through our toughest engineering problems.
You have
- Deep knowledge of typescript, postgres and AWS
- A willingness to roll up your sleeves to deliver products
- Proven experience at scale
We are hiring in the United States and Canada to work fully remotely. We are unfortunately unable to sponsor visas.
The salary range for this role is $190-220k, and could increase beyond that commensurate with experience.
Our Benefits
- Healthcare : We offer company-sponsored health, dental and vision insurance for employees and dependents.
- Equity : We are a team of owners and we provide our team with generous equity grants.
- Time to Recharge : We offer unlimited paid time off. Unplug, recharge, and come back refreshed.
- Remote Friendly : We are a fully distributed team. We all work remotely. We offer a $1,000 stipend to equip you with a home office that is comfortable and personalized to your needs.
- Friday Reimbursed Lunch : Order lunch on Fridays, and we'll cover it!
- 401K : We offer a 3.5% match.
Our Core Values
- Be Worthy of Trust | We are building critical infrastructure that processes sensitive data. We earn trust every day by being transparent, honest and clear to all stakeholders.
- Find a Way | We seize opportunities and iterate quickly. We refuse to get blocked. We are relentlessly optimistic about possibilities. Tenacious and creative, we find a way.
- Own It | We are owners of the product and the company, and we own our successes as well as our failures. We value people who embody extreme ownership.
- Think “We” Not “I” | We prioritize the success of the team over individual contributions. The best decisions are made through triangulating the opinions of the team. Productive disagreement leads to good decisions. We don’t tolerate brilliant jerks.
- Raise the Bar | Our standard is to be the best in the world at what we do. We redefine excellence each day.
To protect the interests of all parties, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to the company will be considered the company property. The company will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. The company will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees.
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