About this role
Job Details
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.
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, 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
Requirements
At least 4 years of professional/production experience developing backend web-stack applications.
Professional experience leveraging Go in prior roles. Please note, 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.
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