Software Engineer

ClaimDeck is an ambitious and fast-growing SaaS startup redefining how insurance and legal professionals collaborate. The Software Engineer role is designed for an early-career engineer to own production features and receive hands-on mentorship across the full stack, contributing to backend systems, frontend applications, and AI-assisted development workflows.

Responsibilities:

• Build & Ship:  Contribute to cross-functional features from database schema updates to UI implementation
• Implementation Excellence:  Translate well-scoped product requirements into clean, maintainable code
• Iteration:  Support features post-launch, fix bugs, and improve performance
• Python/Django:  Build and extend APIs and domain services under senior guidance
• Data Modeling:  Work with PostgreSQL models, migrations, and basic performance considerations
• Async Workflows:  Contribute to background processing systems using Celery and Redis
• Observability:  Write reliable, testable code with clear logging and error handling
• React + TypeScript:  Implement responsive, maintainable UI components
• State Management:  Contribute to feature flows within our Vite-based architecture
• Code Quality:  Improve readability, consistency, and reusability in frontend components
• Testing:  Write unit and integration tests using pytest and Jest
• Tooling:  Follow CI/CD standards, linting rules, and formatting conventions
• Production Awareness:  Participate in debugging and incident follow-up with mentorship
• Modern Workflow:  Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate learning and implementation
• Prompt Discipline:  Learn structured prompting and task decomposition techniques
• Review Standards:  Develop strong judgment through human-reviewed, AI-augmented workflows

Requirements:

• 1–4 years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent strong internship/project experience)
• Solid experience in backend (Python preferred) and frontend (React/TypeScript preferred) with interest in growing across the full stack
• Familiarity with relational databases and data modeling fundamentals
• Basic understanding of API design and web architecture
• Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, well-tested code
• Strong curiosity, ownership mindset, and willingness to learn
• Experience with Django or another MVC-style web framework
• Experience working in a production environment with CI/CD
• Exposure to background processing or async systems
• Interest in AI-assisted development workflows