Senior Backend Engineer (Go)
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BestowLife Insurance Technology
Remote, USFull-TimeSenior
Salary$145K - $170.5K
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional backend software development experience.
- Required Skills
- DockerGogRPCCI/CDRESTful APIsMicroservicesDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional backend software development experience.
- Professional experience with Go.
- Experience owning services end-to-end.
- Experience with distributed systems or microservices.
- Experience designing APIs (REST, gRPC, OpenAPI, Protocol Buffers).
- Experience using Docker for local development.
- Proficiency with CI/CD as a default practice.
- Demonstrated, day-to-day fluency using AI tools (Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, etc.) in real engineering work.
- Ability to step into architectural or mentorship gaps proactively.
Responsibilities
- Build and scale Go services powering agent quoting, configuration, and application-submission tools.
- Partner closely with App & Checkout teams to manage service coupling.
- Drive architectural-leadership work and propose system direction.
- Resolve partner-specific edge cases as distribution volume scales.
- Write unit and integration tests and perform peer code reviews.
- Use AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) as a daily part of the development workflow.
- Encourage automation, CI/CD, and continuous improvement practices.
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