Trellis is a profitable, fast-growing Series A startup backed by General Catalyst, QED, NYCA, and Amex Ventures. We’re reimagining how people shop for home and auto insurance, using smart technology to make something historically painful feel refreshingly easy.

Every day, we help people save time, money, and unnecessary headaches. Behind the scenes, our fully remote team moves fast, owns their craft, and builds products that genuinely make life better.

Led by a three-time fintech founder with a proven track record of going big, we’re building something special, and we’re just getting started.

If you’re hungry to make an impact and love solving complex problems with a scrappy crew, you’ll love it here.

Position Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Core Engineering team, you'll be joining the "brains" behind our insurance marketplace. This team powers the logic that takes an insurance shopper's data and turns it into personalized, high-converting recommendations.

In this role, you’ll do more than just code: you’ll shape our roadmap, initiate new projects, and partner cross-functionally to turn product initiatives into scalable, well-tested technical solutions. You’ll bring a product mindset to technical problem-solving, drive architectural decisions, and lead the team through complex engineering challenges.

You will report directly into Stanton Sievers, Head of Core Engineering.

We believe in paying competitively for great work. As a remote team, we set our salaries at the 75th percentile of national market data in our industry. You can count on your pay being in line with (or above) the market. For this role, the base salary range is $175,000 – $185,000. We review compensation twice a year to make sure we’re staying competitive and rewarding our team’s contributions.

Who You Are

Meticulous: You pay attention to detail and take pride in what you deliver
Articulate: You succinctly and effectively communicate verbal and written technical and non-technical ideas and topics
Kind, not (just) nice: You provide tough feedback in a clear and concise manner that does not diminish or belittle the recipient
Opinionated: You bring strong opinions to discussions but are willing to change your mind when presented with new or better information
Product-minded: You focus on the “why” just as much as the “what” or “how”
Collaborative: You work within your team and cross-functionally to build consensus and achieve results
Autonomous: You are self-motivated, able to hold yourself accountable, and can generate high-value work with little direct supervision

What You’ll Do

Guide your team in delivering high quality, well tested technical solutions providing technical and project oversight
Lead by example through the quality of your code and your approach to your work
Own projects through the entire software development lifecycle - from planning and development to validation, iteration, and maintenance
Translate conceptual work into well-crafted tech plans for review by technical leadership and key stakeholders
Leverage your understanding of the business and engineering strategies to design experiments and high-value projects that impact the work your team is doing
Expertly navigate complex systems and domains to identify key challenges and create plans to address them
Own system quality and hold your team members accountable through constructive and actionable feedback
Level up the team through code review feedback and knowledge sharing sessions
Assist in the onboarding of new engineering hires

What You’ll Need

5+ years’ experience developing software in a production environment
2+ years’ experience in a senior engineer role
Production experience with Node.js and Typescript
Proven experience working in backend systems, designing RESTful APIs and codifying business logic on top of data stores
Exceptional ability to communicate clearly and concisely, particularly in Slack and technical documents
Experience in product development where you were a key decision maker
Deep expertise in system architecture and design
Proven success in operational excellence
Familiarity with cloud environments, especially the Google Cloud stack

Why Trellis? Because life’s too short for boring jobs.

We’re a team of builders, dreamers, and doers reshaping an industry that touches every household in America. At Trellis, you’ll have real ownership, meaningful impact, and the chance to grow alongside a company that’s scaling fast.

Here’s what makes Trellis an incredible place to build your career:

✨ A flat, transparent culture where your voice actually matters
🚀 Ground-floor opportunity with room to stretch and grow
💰 Compensation at the 75th+ percentile
🏡 100% remote... work from wherever you do your best thinking (In the US or Canada, that is)
🎉 Quarterly team events that keep our fully remote culture connected and fun

And yes, the perks are pretty great too:

🌴 Flexible vacation (seriously, we want you to take it)
🩺 100% employer-paid health insurance for employees (65% for dependents)
💻 Home office budget to set up your perfect workspace
🧘🏼‍♂️ Wellness events throughout the year, because we believe in investing in the full human, not just the employee
💸 Automatic 401(k) contribution, FSAs, bonuses, and equity opportunities to invest in your future
🐣 Paid parental leave

👉 If you’re looking for a place where you can do the best work of your career, while building something that actually matters, we’d love to meet you.