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BestowBestowDallas, TX

Staff Backend Engineer

Staff Backend Engineer owns technical architecture for IPC services, builds and operates backend systems using Python, Go, and Java on Kubernetes in GCP, leads cross-team initiatives, ensures reliability, and mentors engineers while using AI coding tools.

202k – 238k/yr
Remote8+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical architecture for IPC services, making design decisions that balance speed of delivery with long-term maintainability
  • Design, build, and operate backend services using Python + PostgreSQL, Go, and a Java-based Drools rules engine
  • Lead cross-team technical initiatives — coordinate with other Bestow engineering teams to plan and execute integration work across the platform
  • Drive platform capabilities that scale with Bestow's growing partner ecosystem — new carrier onboardings, product launches, and configuration flexibility
  • Mentor engineers on the team through code review, design review, and pairing — raise the technical bar without bottlenecking delivery
  • Ensure production reliability: define SLOs, improve observability, and share on-call responsibility for IPC workloads
  • Use agentic AI coding tools as a core part of your workflow and help the team adopt effective AI-assisted development practices
  • Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs, and status clearly in writing

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional backend software development experience; you've operated at the Staff or Senior level before
  • Strong proficiency in Go and Python; Java experience is a plus
  • Deep experience with distributed systems, microservices, and API design (Protocol Buffers, OpenAPI)
  • Comfortable with PostgreSQL or other relational databases at scale
  • Hands-on with cloud infrastructure — Kubernetes, Docker, GCP (or equivalent)
  • Proven track record building, deploying, and troubleshooting production services end-to-end
  • You seek out problems before they find you — proactively identifying risks, proposing solutions, and driving them to completion
  • You write maintainable, well-tested software and hold yourself and your peers to a high quality bar
  • Demonstrated experience with agentic AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) integrated into your daily workflow — not occasional use, but a deliberate practice

Total Rewards

  • Competitive salary and equity based on role
  • Policies and managers that support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave programs
  • 100% paid-premium option for medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Lifestyle stipend to support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
  • Flexible work-from-home policy and open to remote

Skills

GoPythonJavaPostgresKubernetesDockerGCPgRPCRestProtocol BuffersOpenapiDroolsDistributed SystemsMicroservices

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