Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer

Introduction:

meets customers right where their search for car and home insurance begins: online. We provide easy-to-use tools and services, plus friendly, licensed agents who offer advice and guidance at any point along the way. The Zebra has helped customers compare over 74 million quotes since 2012. At its heart, both insurance and tech industry veterans collaborate together to simplify insurance shopping for customers.

In today’s digital world, The Zebra’s customer-centered approach offers people the choices they want and simplicity they need.

The Zebra was recently named an Austin Business Journal's 2026 Best Place to Work. Our motto is "All Stripes Welcome." Building the best product, the best teams, and the best company comes from inviting a diverse array of voices, backgrounds and perspectives to contribute, making everyone feel welcome. Our Zeebs are passionate about learning, growing, and working together to tackle exciting problems.

The Zebra is seeking a Full Stack Senior Software Engineer to expand our growing team. Our Applied AI team is growing and looking for experienced developers who can quickly learn new tools and work across the tech stack. Developers on this team will work on a broad set of technologies, including frontend and backend web development, data pipelines and leveraging LLMs for both internal and consumer-facing applications.

You will need to be comfortable working both on experimental, rapid-prototyping projects and building long-term sustainable, scalable solutions. Our software engineers play a vital role in taking projects from spec to concept and building them with high-quality, creative, simple, and sophisticated solutions.

Our company headquarters are in Austin, TX, but our employees work remotely across the US. For folks who live around Austin, we offer the option to join us in our office or opt for hybrid setup. Whether you prefer the structure of an office, the convenience of remote work, or a mix of both, we support what works best for you!

Please note: at this time we are not able to hire in California or Massachusetts.

• Assist in the design, implementation, and maintenance of The Zebra comparison product and other products using Python, Django, FastAPI, Graph
  
  QL, React
  
  JS, and other modern technologies
• Deliver focused, maintainable, and performant code across different areas of our business, from adding new functionality to existing cloud-hosted microservices to creating new features supporting growth into new insurance lines
• Work closely with other engineers, designers, and engineering leadership to rapidly build, iterate, test, and deploy new features and products and maintain a high-quality robust codebase
• Improve and scale the existing products and tools to support our growth
• Act as a technical leader for the team and grow other engineers through example and mentorship

As we evaluate candidates across all roles, we look for folks who have a strong sense of ownership, great communication and collaboration skills, and a dedication to continuous improvement.

• 5+ years of professional programming experience
• Demonstrated ability to work in HTML/CSS and Java script, particularly with React applications
• Strong understanding of and experience with one of the following:
  Python, Ruby, Java, C++, C#, or Go (Python being the preferred language of choice)
• Strong experience with relational and/or No
  
  SQL databases
• Comfort with Linux/Unix command line
• Exceptional and proven web development experience
• Eager to take ownership of work, including collaboration with collaborators and developers through the product development lifecycle
• Track record of delivering quality code in a timely fashion, understanding where to draw the line between good and flawless

• Experience working in consumer-facing web products, growth-phase startups and/or using A/B testing and data to drive product decisions
• Experience with Django, AWS, react, microservice architectures and web API design
• Experience with using AI tools for development
• Experience developing software that leverages LLMs and developing data sets for…