Staff Backend Engineer (Implementation and Platform Configuration)

Life insurance is one of the world's most important products. It's also one of the hardest to build distribute and modernize. Bestow exists to change that.

Bestow is a leading vertical technology platform serving some of the largest and most innovative life insurers. Our platform unifies the fragmented legacy value chain enabling carriers to launch products in weeks instead of years. Carriers choose us to scale and operate at unprecedented speed powered by AI and automation.

Bestow isn't selling policies. We're building the infrastructure that helps an entire industry move faster reach more people and deliver on its promise.

Backed by leading investors (Goldman Sachs Hedosophia NEA Valar 8VC) and trusted by major carriers Bestow is powered by a team that moves with precision purpose and heart. If you want to help reimagine a centuries-old industry with lasting impact join us.

Bestow offers flexible remote/hybrid work meaningful benefits equity and substantial growth opportunities.

Bestow participates in the E-Verify Program.

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 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 IPC Engineering team you will work closely with 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 IPC team integrates 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.

• You will be developing web services using Python + PostgreSQL Golang and a Java based Drools rules engine.

• 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.

Additional experience:

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

• Professional experience with Golang and Python is preferred

• Java is a nice to have

• Comfortable using Docker for local software development

• Experience working with distributed systems or microservices

• Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases

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

• Experience building deploying operating and troubleshooting software

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

• Proven track record in with Agentic AI coding

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 + 2024 + 2025

• Great Place to Work Certified 2022 + 2023 + 2024 + 2025

• Built In Best Places to Work 2022 + 2023 + 2025

• Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Texas 2022 + 2023

• Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance 2022 + 2023 + 2024

We value diversity at Bestow. The company will hire recruit 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!

What We Do

At Bestow we’re on a mission to increase financial stability for everyone. We’re building the technology to modernize the life insurance industry and make things easier on everyone from consumers to carriers. It’s an audacious goal sure. But we’re just crazy enough to pull it off.

Why Work With Us

Our employees consistently say “Bestow is a great place to work” and we have the trophies to prove it — we've been Great Place to Work certified for three years running.

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