Software Engineer II (Full-Stack, Backend-leaning)
New
North America, AsiaFull-TimeMiddle
Salary not disclosed
Job Details
- Experience
- At least 2 years
- Required Skills
- AWSGraphQLDynamoDBReact NativeTypeScriptClickhousePostgresRedisNest.jsNext.jsReactMicroservicesAWS Lambda
Requirements
- At least 2 years full stack engineering experience building production-grade software
- Prior experience building large scale distributed systems for a fast-growing consumer-facing software
- Strong foundations in data structures
- Strong foundations in algorithms
- Strong foundations in systems design
- Enjoy tackling ambiguous problems, breaking them down into actionable code, and iterating quickly
- Take responsibility for end-to-end outcomes and continuously improve the systems you build
- Comfortable working asynchronously with a global team
- Excellent communication skills
- Love learning, exploring new tools, and stepping outside your comfort zone to understand the bigger picture
Responsibilities
- Build automation systems that handle complex insurance servicing tasks end-to-end (policy endorsements, cancellations, document uploads, reinstatements) or reduce policy cancellations, improve renewals, and ensure users always have the best coverage
- Ship new automations in 1–2 weeks on average
- Compose backend business logic that drives automation while respecting complex insurance carrier rules
- Design backend pipelines that sync customer policy data, deliver timely alerts, and power seamless re-shopping experiences
- Optimize and scale our internal tools (think: in-house DocuSign for servicing) to reduce agent intervention to nearly zero
- Collaborate closely with product, data, and engineering ops to anticipate churn and improve customer retention
- Work asynchronously across time zones, with minimal meetings but strong collaboration through Asana and Slack
- Continuously improve our backend systems, APIs, and microservice architecture
- Refactor major parts of our code base — simplifying old systems, rebuilding core flows, and setting up the next three years of our platform’s growth
