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Software Engineering Lead, Provider Integrations

Trellis makes insurance easy by meeting consumers where they are–and helping them find the right personal insurance to meet their needs.

Trellis

Employee count: 51-200

Salary: 195k-205k USD

CA and US only

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.

Your Mission

Reporting directly to the CEO, the Software Engineering Lead, Provider Engineering will own all of our technical relationships and integrations with insurance providers like Progressive, Allstate, and GEICO, as well as providers of new lines of business like auto loan refinancing.

Your mission will be to ensure that our shopping engine:

  1. Intelligently identifies which providers to request by balancing considerations like the likely quality/importance of their offer, search latency, data costs, and more
  2. Retrieves accurate offers informed by all available shopper data, including intelligently interpolating unavailable data inputs
  3. Maintains a high degree of service availability

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 $195,000 – $205,000. We review compensation twice a year to make sure we’re staying competitive and rewarding our team’s contributions.

Your Initial Goals

  1. Grow the number of high-quality results (e.g. quotes) retrieved per search/shopper
    • By integrating new providers of existing types of offers
    • By systematically eliminating bugs and shortcoming in existing integrations
  2. Improve the R2 of our “result quality” models by driving more accurate rate estimates
    • By systematically ensuring inputs are calculated, interpolated, and plumbed correctly and accurately
    • By adding an intelligence layer to prevent unnecessary requests, enabling providers to activate more expensive data enrichment
  3. Add new kinds of offers to our search engine
    • Such as auto loan refinancing

What You’ll Need to Succeed

  1. Extensive Backend Engineering Experience – This role will be nearly entirely backend focused. You should be comfortable exercising best practices in Typscript/NodeJS.
  2. Product/Business Chops – You will need to make smart, nuanced product decisions, such as what coverages to request for a given shopper. This will require that you be able to quickly learn new product domains (like how car insurance works in each state).
  3. Communication Skills – Since you will be working extensively with the companies that pay our bills, professional and clear written and verbal communication skills will be essential, as well as judgment for how to navigate their large corporate bureaucracies.
  4. Process Orientation – You will be responsible for a lot of spinning plates, such as bugs that insurers’ need to fix, and multi-week refactoring projects, so you will need to skillfully manage and keep track of everything by designing and implementing effective and right-sized processes.
  5. Comfort with Data – In order to identify issues and design optimizations, you will need to self-sufficiently navigate production data using tools like Looker and Datadog. You will need to design things like smart algorithms for anomaly detection.

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

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.

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Salary: 195k-205k USD

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United States +/- 0 hours, and 1 other timezone

About Trellis

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We’re an insurtech start-up. Our mission is to build industry-leading solutions that make insurance easy for everyone, from consumers to partners to insurers.

We’re fast-growing. Our partners include 4 of the top 5 digital banks and 7 of the top 50 personal finance apps in both app stores. We have backing from multiple top venture capital investors, including QED (Credit Karma, SoFi), General Catalyst (Airbnb, Stripe), Nyca (Acorns, Revolut), as well as Amex Ventures.

We’re fully remote. We believe it allows us to find the best talent wherever it is, provide our team with maximum flexibility, and stand out to candidates.

Our embedded insurance API's and technology bring the market's leading insurance products (e.g. Progressive, Allstate, Liberty Mutual, and hundreds of others) into the apps and ecosystems where customers already manage their finances.

Our proprietary software allows consumers to digitally share their existing insurance information in order to instantly review a side-by-side comparison of prospective quotes against their existing rate and coverage.

Our team of dedicated, nationally-licensed agents provide sales and service over phone, email, and SMS – enabling a truly omnichannel experience that closes the gap between online and offline.

Our Values

  1. Extreme Ownership – We fulfill our promises to each other and to our customers. We own our responsibilities 110%.

  2. Speed – We work quickly and pragmatically.

  3. Collaboration – We work transparently, solicit feedback, and leave our egos at the door.

  4. Craft – We do a great job for the sake of it. We’re constantly learning and working at bettering ourselves and the way that we work.

  5. Positivity – We focus on the potential in the world and in each other. We rise to challenges rather than complain about them. We see a cup half full instead of half empty.

Employee benefits

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Retirement benefits

401(k) retirement savings plan.

Company events

Quarterly, fun team bonding events.

Equity benefits

Stock options with tremendous upside potential.

Company retreats

Annual in-person company event so you can meet everyone in person.

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Trellis

Company size

51-200 employees

Founded in

2019

Chief executive officer

Daniel Demetri

Employees live in

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