Senior Software Engineer Contract Jobs in Renton, WA

Porch Group is a leading vertical software and insurance platform and is positioned to be the best partner to help homebuyers move, maintain, and fully protect their homes. We offer differentiated products and services, with homeowners insurance at the center of this relationship. We differentiate and look to win in the massive and growing homeowners insurance opportunity by 1) providing the best services for homebuyers, 2) led by advantaged underwriting in insurance, 3) to protect the whole home.
As a leader in the home services software-as-a-service ("SaaS") space, we've built deep relationships with approximately 30 thousand companies that are key to the home-buying transaction, such as home inspectors, mortgage companies, and title companies.
In 2020, Porch Group rang the Nasdaq bell and began trading under the ticker symbol PRCH. We are looking to build a truly great company and are JUST GETTING STARTED.
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer, Insurance
Location: United States
Workplace Type: Remote
Job Summary
Porch is reimagining what it means to be an insurance technology company, and we're building it from the inside out. As a Senior Engineer I on our insurance platform team, you'll build and own key services that power how we underwrite, administer, and scale insurance products. We're an AI-first organization, so you'll do your day-to-day development with agentic AI coding tools - not as an experiment, but as the way we ship.
This is a hands-on build role on a greenfield platform. You'll take projects from design through production within your area, make well-reasoned tradeoffs around scaling, reliability, and maintainability, and lean on senior teammates when you venture into less familiar parts of the codebase. If you like owning real services, shipping well-tested code, and growing alongside a strong team, you'll fit right in.
What You Will Do As A Senior Software Engineer
AI-Native Engineering (How We Build)

• Use agentic AI coding tools as your primary development methodology for the platform build, not as an experimental side channel.
• Work within the team's agent configuration patterns, custom skills, and CI/CD integration - and help improve them as you find rough edges.
• Make sure the code you ship with AI assistance meets our standards: a green CI pipeline, passing evaluations, and clean pre-commit hooks are non-negotiable.
• Apply good spec-driven, context-management practices that separate productive AI-assisted work from churn, and share what works with your teammates.

AI Capability in the Platform (What We Build)

• Build agentic capabilities into the platform - agent-assisted configuration, AI-driven underwriting decisioning, document understanding for declarations and endorsements, and conversational interfaces for the operations team.
• Contribute to the RAG pipelines, retrieval, and tool-use patterns that ground LLM behavior in regulated insurance content (rate manuals, underwriting guidelines, state-specific rules).
• Implement the integration patterns (MCP, function calling, structured outputs) that expose platform capabilities to internal agents and external partners.
• Add observability, evaluation, and cost instrumentation to the AI features you own so their behavior is measurable, debuggable, and bounded.
• Follow the responsible-AI guardrails that keep agent-influenced decisions auditable and aligned with insurance regulatory requirements.

Platform Architecture & Build

• Design and build core PAS services in your area - quoting, rating, binding, issuance, endorsements, renewals, cancellations, and reinstatements - making well-reasoned design decisions and tradeoffs as you go.
• Contribute to the rating engine, product configuration layer, and rules framework that let business teams launch new states and products without engineering bottlenecks.
• Implement data models for policy lifecycle, exposure management, and regulatory compliance, with guidance from senior engineers on the broader architecture.
• Build within the platform's event-driven patterns and integration architecture for the carrier, vendor, and partner systems the platform speaks to.

Transformation & Migration

• Build migration tooling: automated data extraction, transformation, validation, and reconciliation pipelines.
• Help keep existing vendor platforms stable while we build the replacement - you'll context-switch between "keep the lights on" and "build the future" without dropping either.

Collaboration & Growth

• Partner with Product and Insurance SMEs to refine requirements and turn domain needs into working software.
• Participate in design reviews, and support teammates through constructive code reviews and ad-hoc technical advice.
• Lead by example - strong ownership, accountability, and a high quality bar - and help other engineers grow their skills.
• Stay hands-on. This is a build role: you write production code every week.

What You Will Bring As A Senior Software Engineer
Required

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating backend services in production.
• Demonstrated ability to lead at least one project from conception to production, breaking work into reasonably sized, well-tested releases.
• Production-grade engineering depth in Python, Java, or a comparable backend language; comfortable across the stack from data model to API to deployment.
• Solid systems design fundamentals: distributed systems, event-driven architecture, API-first design, and data modeling for transactional workloads.
• Hands-on experience building LLM-integrated features - RAG, tool use, or agent workflows - running in real software, not just prototypes.
• Working familiarity with agentic AI coding tools as part of your day-to-day development, with a point of view on what makes AI-assisted work reliable.
• Requires minimal direction to deliver in your area, and comfortable working in unfamiliar parts of the codebase with guidance.
• US-based; able to work core business hours.

Strongly Preferred

• Exposure to homeowners or other personal-lines P&C insurance systems, or eagerness to ramp deeply on the domain.
• Experience contributing to a custom-built policy administration system, or to a migration off a legacy/vendor PAS (data migration, parallel-run validation, cutover).
• Experience with AI evaluation, observability for agent runs, prompt and model versioning, or AI cost-management.
• Working knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP), function calling, and structured outputs, and patterns for grounding LLMs in regulated content.
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks: SERFF rate filings, NAIC data calls, state DOI requirements, and the NAIC AI bulletin.
• Working knowledge of insurance data standards (ACORD, MISMO) and the open-source PCDM data model.
• Background in cloud-native infrastructure (GCP preferred), event streaming (Kafka), and modern observability practices.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

The application window for this position is anticipated to close in 2 weeks (10 business days) from 7/1/2026. Please know this may change based on business and interviewing needs.
At this time, Porch Group does not consider applicants from the following states or jurisdictions for Remote positions: Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Mississippi, Nebraska, Montana, New Hampshire, West Virginia, or the District of Columbia.
What You Will Get As A Porch Group Team Member
Pay Range*: $168,800 - $236,300 annually
*Please know your actual pay at Porch will reflect a number of factors among which are your work experience and skillsets, job-related knowledge, alignment with market and our Porch employees, as well as your geographic location.
Additionally, you will be eligible to receive long-term incentive awards, subject to program guidelines and approvals.

• Our traditional healthcare benefits include three (3) Medical plan options, two (2) Dental plan options, and a Vision plan from which to choose.
• Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity and Accident plans are offered on a voluntary basis.
• We offer pre-tax savings options including a partially employer funded Health Savings Account and employee Flexible Savings Accounts including healthcare, dependent care, and transportation savings options.
• We provide company paid Basic Life and AD&D, Short and Long-Term Disability benefits. We also offer Voluntary Life and AD&D plans.
• Both traditional and Roth 401(k) plans are available with a discretionary employer match.
• Supportlinc is part of our employer paid wellbeing program and provides employees and their families access to on demand guided meditation and mindfulness exercises, mental health coaching, clinical care and online access to confidential resources including will preparation.
• LifeBalance is a free resource to employees and their families for year-round discounts on things like gym memberships, travel, appliances, movies, pet insurance and more.
• Our wellness programs include flexible paid vacation, company-paid holidays of typically nine per year, paid sick time, paid parental leave, identity theft program, travel assistance, and fitness and other discounts programs.

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What's next?
Submit your application and our Porch Group Talent Acquisition team will be reviewing your application shortly! If your resume gets us intrigued, we will look to connect with you for a chat to learn more about your background, and then possibly invite you to have virtual interviews. What's important to call out is that we want to make sure not only that you're the right person for us, but also that we're the right next step for you, so come prepared with all the questions you have!
Porch is committed to building an inclusive culture of belonging that not only embraces the diversity of our people but also reflects the diversity of the communities in which we work and the customers we serve. We know that the happiest and highest performing teams include people with diverse perspectives that encourage new ways of solving problems, so we strive to attract and develop talent from all backgrounds and create workplaces where everyone feels seen, heard and empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work.
Porch is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.
Porch Group is an E-Verify employer. E-Verify is a web-based system that allows an employer to determine an employee's eligibility to work in the US using information reported on an employee's Form I-9. The E-Verify system confirms eligibility with both the Social Security Administration (SSA) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS). For more information, please go to the USCIS E-Verify website.