Senior Staff or Principal Software Engineer (AI Insurance Tech)
EvolutionIQ · New York, NY
$275,000–$330,000from the description
Jul 21, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role focused on shaping the technical direction of AI-driven insurance claims products, particularly the shift toward event-driven, agentic systems processing large volumes of unstructured documents. The position sits at the intersection of executive strategy and engineering execution — setting architecture standards, removing technical bottlenecks, and improving engineering practices across a 100-plus-person organization. Suits an experienced engineer comfortable operating at both a hands-on design level and an organizational influence level.
Staff level · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Staff.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 230 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 95–340
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posting is titled 'Senior Staff or Principal Software Engineer' — the advertised level is Principal (the higher of the two named bands). However, the actual scope — a hands-on technical leader bridging platform and product across a ~100-person org, partnering with the CTO — is consistent with a Staff-level IC role rather than a true org-wide Principal/Distinguished authority, so seniority is set to Staff.
The role is classified as Software Developers (15-1252) rather than Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) because the JD emphasizes hands-on architecture, system design, and technical execution rather than people management with direct reports, hiring, and budget ownership. However, the strong cross-org influence and executive partnership make 11-3021 a plausible runner-up.
Location is not explicitly stated in the posting. EvolutionIQ is headquartered in New York, NY; the metro is inferred from company HQ. The posting mentions office perks (catered lunches, pet-friendly spaces), suggesting an in-office or hybrid expectation, so remote is set to false.
The base salary range of $275K–$330K is explicitly stated as varying by level hired (Senior Staff vs. Principal). Total comp of $380K–$450K including bonus and RSUs is also mentioned but not captured in the comp fields, which reflect base salary only.
The JD is notably light on specific named technologies. Skills are derived from the concrete technical concepts explicitly called out (event-driven systems, agentic systems, RAG, embeddings, data pipelines). CI/CD and LLMs appear only in narrative/context sections and are marked preferred accordingly.
No minimum years of experience is explicitly stated at the role level.
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