Staff Backend Engineer

ABOUT BESTOW

Bestow is a leading insurance technology platform serving some of the world's largest and most innovative life insurers. We are on a mission to increase financial stability for everyone. Bestow is a team of mission-driven results-oriented individuals. We offer all employees a remote (contiguous 48 only)/hybrid workplace meaningful benefits substantial growth opportunities and equity.

Bestow participates in the E-Verify Program .

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Engineering team is responsible for all technology for Bestow and the Bestow Platform. We serve employees consumers and enterprise customers. In addition to building software we integrate and manage many third-party products used by employees and as part of the platform. Our major functional teams are product engineering infrastructure IT data & analytics MarTech and program management. Engineering works closely with product management and design to define and prioritize the product roadmap.

As a Staff Backend Engineer on the Origination Group Engineering team you will work closely with the Enrollment Product Managers Underwriters and our external partners to develop and support solutions to power our digital life insurance enrollment experience. You will also collaborate with teams across Bestow to plan and execute the product roadmap. Our system is composed of several modular services written in Python Java and Go. The Origination Group services are written in Python and Java and integrate with other services using gRPC REST and async messaging patterns. Our services run on Kubernetes in Google Cloud Platform and you will share responsibility for operating our workloads on these platforms.

ABOUT THE ROLE

• You will be developing web services using Python + PostgreSQL Java and Drools Rule Language.

• We're a startup with a long product roadmap and multiple partners. You will help build new platform capabilities that scale with our business.

• We work remotely so effective written communication and teleconference skills are essential.

You would be a good fit for this role if:

• You seek out problems and opportunities proactively proposing solutions.

• You are interested in the business and want to understand how your role contributes to its success.

• You take responsibility for the quality of your work and the services we provide to stakeholders.

• You write maintainable software including automated tests.

• You provide thoughtful respectful feedback to peers and are receptive to feedback from peers.

• You ensure features are observable and monitored for failure.

• You work well with designers product managers customer support associates and other engineers.

YOUR EXPERIENCE :

• 8+ years of professional software development experience (backend)

• Professional experience with Python or Java is preferred

• Comfortable using Docker for local software development

• Experience working with distributed systems or microservices

• Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases (comfortable writing ANSI SQL)

• Experience designing APIs (Protocol Buffers Swagger OpenAPI etc.)

• Experience building deploying operating and troubleshooting software

• Cloud computing & Kubernetes (or similar container orchestration) preferred

$180000 - $225000 a year

Starting compensation may vary based on geographic location work experience and skills.

TOTAL REWARDS

At Bestow we’re proud to be awarded for our team members innovative products and culture. Our standard benefits include:

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

Remote and WFH options as well as a beautiful state-of-the-art office in Dallas’ Deep Ellum for those who prefer an office setting

Employee-led diversity equity and inclusion initiatives

Recent Employer Awards include:

Best Place for Working Parents 2023

Great Place to Work Certified 2022 + 2023 + 2024

Built In Best Places to Work 2022 + 2023

Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Texas 2022 + 2023

Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance 2022 + 2023

We value diversity at Bestow. The company will recruit hire and promote regardless of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin pregnancy or maternity veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law. We understand the importance of creating a safe and comfortable work environment and encourage individualism and authenticity in every team member.

Thanks for considering a job at Bestow.