Senior Backend Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop the core systems and create APIs that power our best-in-class user experiences.
• Build out our internal tooling and APIs to make business and engineering processes easier, faster, and safer.
• Implement systemic changes to align existing systems with current architectural goals.
• Integrate with external services to manage payments, documents, and claims.
• Integrate with data providers to source real-time information on hundreds of data points, including property characteristics and risk profiles.
• Provide subject matter expertise, mentorship, and support to individuals on your team.
• Collaborate on architectural discussions with your team.
• Contribute to important architectural and operational decisions like microservices vs. monoliths, deployment techniques, technologies, policies, etc.
• Participate in daily stand-ups, weekly 1:1's, and biweekly retros.

Our Stack

• Backend: Go & PostgreSQL
• Frontend: Browser-based, VueJS, Webpack, Nuxt, Tailwind
• Research/Data Science: R, ArcGIS, Jupyter Notebooks, Python
• Data: GCP GCS, BigQuery, Composer/Airflow, Cloud Functions, Postgres, SQL, Python, Go, Aiven Debezium and Kafka, Fivetran
• Infrastructure: Google Cloud (Cloud Run, Kubernetes, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, CloudSQL), managed with Terraform. GitHub for code hosting, DataDog for monitoring, CircleCI for CI/CD pipelines.
• Remote work tools: Slack, Zoom, Donut

Requirements

• At least 4 years of professional/production experience developing backend web-stack applications.
• Professional experience leveraging Go in prior roles. (Part of the interview process includes completing a code challenge in Go.)
• Sustained track record of creating improvements in business-critical systems around stability, performance, and scalability.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver complete systems from start to finish in a reasonable time frame with little or no supervision.
• Strong interpersonal skills, such as an ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Compensation & Benefits

• Budgeted Salary Range: $145,600–$163,800 USD
• Full Salary Range: $145,600–$218,400 USD
• Remote-First Culture
• Competitive Salary & Equity
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Plan Offerings
• Life and disability coverage including voluntary options
• Parental Leave - up to 8 weeks (320 hours) of paid parental leave
• 401K Company Contribution - Openly contributes 3% of the employee's gross income
• Work-from-home stipend - $1,500 allowance
• Annual Professional Development Fund: $2,000 per employee
• Be Well Program - $50 per month
• Paid Volunteer Service Hours
• Referral Program and Reward