Senior Software Engineer at Mercury Insurance Services, LLC
$94,458–$179,048from the description
Jul 13, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual contributor role at an insurance company, focused on designing and building distributed, enterprise-grade web applications with strong front-end components. Day-to-day work spans writing and reviewing code, translating product requirements into scalable system designs, and guiding sprint teams. The role also carries a mentoring responsibility, providing technical direction to less experienced engineers. Suits engineers with broad full-stack experience and a background in microservices, containerization, and API integration.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 3 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 22,100 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 13,200–33,100
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $135,980 (middle half $105,210–$171,980). 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 (10)
The JD lists multiple state-specific pay bands; the posted range of $94,458–$179,048/yr reflects the highest-tier states (CA, NJ, NY, WA, etc.) and is also the figure shown in the Pay Range field. Lower-tier bands go as low as $77,283–$146,494/yr.
The minimum experience gate is '5+ years software programming experience with 2+ years in Mercury technologies and 1+ year leading/mentoring teams.' The 7-year front-end and 5-year document-management figures appear only under the Preferred experience block and are not hard gates.
Programming language proficiency (Java, Python, Go, C++, JavaScript) is listed in the required Knowledge and Skills section with an 'e.g.' qualifier, meaning any one of these satisfies the requirement; Java is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
Message-queuing/streaming frameworks (Kafka, NiFi, SQS, Camel, etc.) are listed as required examples of a single capability; Kafka is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
Front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, TypeScript/JavaScript, Angular/React) appear only in the Preferred experience block and are marked accordingly.
Cloud platform experience (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) is explicitly labeled Preferred at the end of the Knowledge and Skills section.
The Bachelor's degree requirement accepts 'equivalent combination of education and experience,' so no minimum degree is hard-gated.
Caching solutions are mentioned as required alongside relational and NoSQL databases but name no specific product; no separate skill entry is emitted for the generic category.
DevSecOps is mentioned as a required proficiency but names no specific tool; no skill entry is emitted for the generic practice.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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