Software Engineering Lead, Provider Integrations

Trellis is rewriting the insurance experience from the inside out. We’re the tech company behind Savvy, our licensed insurance agency, and we’re bringing clarity and ease to a space known for… the opposite. With powerful tools, clean design, and a customer-first mindset, we’re making insurance shopping refreshingly effortless.

We’re a profitable, fast-growing Series A startup backed by General Catalyst, QED, NYCA, and Amex Ventures. As a remote-first team, we move quickly, experiment boldly, and build with intention.

If you’re craving meaningful impact, energized by ambiguity, and are ready to build alongside exceptional teammates, you’re going to love doing your best work at Trellis.

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 $220,000-$235,000. 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. Management Basics – You will manage 1-3 direct reports and be responsible for their productivity.
   
   

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 you deserve a career that’s exciting, meaningful, and surrounded by people who lift you up.

We’re a group of curious, mission-driven humans rewriting the insurance experience and having a lot of fun along the way. At Trellis, you’ll make a real impact on a product millions rely on, and grow alongside a company that’s scaling fast.

What sets Trellis apart:

✨ A transparent, collaborative culture where ideas win, not titles
🚀 Big opportunities to take ownership and chart your growth
💰 Competitive compensation (75th+ percentile)
🏡 Fully remote across the US & Canada
🎉 Quarterly virtual and/or in-person events that keep us connected

Plus, the benefits are built to support your whole life:

🌴 Flexible vacation (yes, actually flexible)
🩺 100% employer-paid health insurance for employees
💻 Home office budget to create your perfect setup
🧘 Wellness programming, because balance matters
💸 401(k) and HSA contributions, FSAs, bonuses & equity opportunities
🐣 Paid parental leave

👉 If you want a role where you’ll grow, be trusted, and build something that genuinely improves people’s lives, Trellis is the place. Join us.