Overview

Join Brightway as a Software Engineer and become a key contributor to the next generation of our customer and advisor experience. With a data-rich insurance franchise representing over $1 billion in premium and a rapidly growing customer base, we're investing heavily in intelligent systems that help our teams move faster, serve customers better, and operate more efficiently.

The ideal candidate is a strong software engineer who is intellectually curious and excited about applying modern AI capabilities in practical ways. You should be comfortable building backend services, integrating APIs, and working across systems, while being eager to learn and experiment with emerging tools and technologies. This role is hands on, fast moving, and focused on delivering reliable, scalable software.

As a Software Engineer at Brightway, you'll tackle meaningful technical challenges and contribute to systems used daily by our large network of customers, advisors, and agents. You'll be part of a collaborative team that values learning, iteration, and building technology that truly moves the business forward.

Job Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain production-grade software systems that power Brightway's platform serving agents, advisors, and customers.

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to define, design, and ship impactful features quickly and reliably

• Write high quality, well tested, and maintainable code with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and scalability

• Translate high level business needs into practical technical solutions, using a mix of custom built software and off the shelf tools where appropriate

• Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues in a timely manner, taking ownership of the systems you help build

• Continuously improve software quality by identifying technical debt, improving system design, and refining existing implementations

• Stay current with modern software development practices and AI-enabled tooling, applying new techniques where they provide clear value

• Deliver solutions iteratively, incorporating feedback and measurable outcomes to drive continuous improvement

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

• 2-5 years of professional experience building and delivering production software systems

• Demonstrated ability to design, develop, test, and maintain high-quality software that solves real business problems

• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages and web development frameworks; experience with Node.js and/or Python is a strong plus

• Experience building backend services and APIs, including integrating third-party platforms and services

• Familiarity with cloud based and distributed systems, including microservices architectures and platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP

• Comfort working in an agile development environment with an emphasis on iterative delivery, testing, and continuous improvement

• Intellectual curiosity and a strong interest in applying AI-enabled tools and technologies to practical, production use cases (prior AI-specific experience is helpful but not required)

• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to reason through ambiguous requirements and propose pragmatic technical solutions

• Clear communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and business teams

• Experience in insurance, fintech, or other regulated industries is a plus

• Experience working in startups or high-growth environments is a plus

Essential Job Functions

The ability to perform the following functions with or without reasonable accommodation; ability to communicate orally with others, reading, writing, walking, speaking, hearing, regular use of the telephone and e-mail for company communication is essential, extended periods viewing computer screen, repetitive motion, sitting for extended periods is common, pushing/pulling, bending/stooping, reaching/grasping, lifting/carrying up to 20 pounds various items, good manual dexterity for the use of common office equipment such as computer terminals, calculator, copiers, good reasoning ability is required to solve a wide range of business problems within your department; able to perform basic mathematics; addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, able to apply statistical calculations, analysis of variance, correlation techniques.