About this role
GBLI | Global Indemnity provides specialty property and casualty insurance for small to middle-market businesses – and we're on a mission to be the best-in-class while achieving steady, profitable growth. Our guiding principles include the core belief that our people are number one. We also strongly emphasize a customer-centric mentality and disciplined underwriting practices. Our work environment is flexible, friendly, and collaborative, with plenty of opportunities to take charge of your career.
Responsibilities
• Develop and maintain backend services and APIs using Python
• Lead improvements to the DevOps platform, including CI pipelines, deployments, and environment management
• Maintain and optimize AWS infrastructure such as ECS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, VPC, and Load Balancers
• Design and implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using AWS and third-party tools
• Improve system reliability by reducing operational overhead and automating processes
• Manage infrastructure security, including IAM, secrets management, and network access
• Support containerization efforts, including Docker image optimization and ECS task configurations
• Partner with engineering leads to establish coding and operational best practices
• Assist with incident response, root-cause analysis, and performance troubleshooting
• Participate in architecture discussions and mentor team members
Requirements
• 7 or more years of experience in backend engineering preferably Python
• Strong knowledge of AWS cloud infrastructure and best practices
• Experience with Jenkins or similar CI systems
• Experience with Docker and general backend system design
• Understanding of production monitoring and troubleshooting
• Strong analytical and debugging skills
• Experience with insurtech, fintech, or workflow-heavy B2B platforms a plus
• Experience working on high-availability SaaS products a plus
• Experience in the Insurtech industry and cost optimization, performance tuning, or scaling backend systems a plus