Senior Backend Engineer

• We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to be a part of one of our core teams building the backend for Openly’s insurance platform
• You will play an essential role in designing, building, testing, and maintaining the services and technology that power our insurance offering and customer experiences
• 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, specifically Cloud Run, Kubernetes, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, and CloudSQL, managed with Terraform. We use GitHub for code hosting, DataDog for monitoring, and CircleCI for running our CI/CD pipelines
• Remote work tools: Slack, Zoom, Donut

Benefits

• Company equity
• Remote-First Culture: With employees in 40 states and counting, we promoted #remotelife long before it was adopted by other companies
• WFH Setup: Day 1, you’ll receive a new laptop, a $1,500 allowance to spend on setting up your home workplace, and a monthly internet stipend
• Real Work-Life Balance: Ensuring you can spend valuable time with friends and family is a priority. We offer flexible PTO and a generous parental leave policy
• 401k Company Contribution: We love working here, but who wants to work forever? Take advantage of our 401K plan and generous company contribution
• Health and Wellness: Your well-being comes first. We offer a variety of plans to suit your needs, ranging from the basics to supplemental coverages

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