Hippo was built on a promise: make homeownership effortless. Nearly a decade later, that mission still drives us. We use technology and data to help our customers stay ahead of problems and protect what matters most.

Today, that same tech-native approach powers our work beyond homeowners. Hippo operates as a diversified carrier platform, partnering with MGAs to deliver tailored program solutions that help them grow and deliver better customer experiences. Behind that work is a team that values ownership, curiosity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

If you're energized by building what's next, we'd love to meet you.

At Hippo, we are on a mission to protect what matters most by reimagining home insurance through proactive technology and smarter solutions. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in driving our core backend ecosystem and scaling the automated systems that power real-time decision-making for our customers. Working with modern stack technologies—including Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and AWS Lambda—you will design, build, and deploy high-throughput APIs and reliable data integrations that directly impact our business operations. In this role, you will act like an owner: championing robust test automation, upholding rigorous security practices, and crafting technical designs alongside Product Managers and Staff Engineers. You'll thrive in an agile, collaborative environment that spans across time zones (US and Poland), offering high autonomy, continuous learning opportunities, and direct ownership over critical production systems.

You'll implement backends and their interactions with various data stores and other APIs (including 3rd party APIs). You'll work in an agile environment focusing on projects that are impactful on our business. You'll support reliable databases and APIs for real-time automated decision-making. You'll deploy your software using industry-standard tooling like Kubernetes clusters, and Lambda functions. You'll investigate and resolve production issues by analyzing code, data, and system behavior and then propose and implement timely fixes to minimize user impact. You'll care deeply about security in everything you do and constantly raise the baseline of how we defend our user's data against external threats and themselves. You'll implement robust automated test suites to ensure high quality and low failure rate of delivered code. You’ll put your mark on final designs by writing and reviewing technical design documents. You'll work closely with Product Managers, Senior and Staff Engineers to understand business processes, rules, and requirements, and turn them into high-quality code with automated tests, and deploy them to production. You’ll have a lot of chances to develop your programming skills as well as learn a lot about how tech business is done in the US (if you want to).

Hands-on experience with Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript. A good, practical knowledge of at least one relational database system, e.g. PostgreSQL/MySQL/SQL Server. Ability to engage in discussions and decisions regarding software design and architecture. Experience implementing the test pyramid (module, integration, system tests). Team player and a good communicator, with the ability to convey ideas clearly across technical and non-technical teams. Demonstrated responsibility, accountability, and a strong sense of ownership in delivering high-quality work. Utilize good security practices effectively. Readiness to learn and expand your skill set as required by ongoing projects. A good command of English (written & spoken). Are available to work in different timezones –- we prioritize everyone’s personal time and work-life fit, but since we work across Poland and the US (Austin, San Francisco), occasional evening meetings may be necessary (on average 2 days per week). Nice to Have Experience with data analysis and BigQuery Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus Real AI use case production experience