Staff Backend Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the technical architecture for IPC services, making design choices that balance rapid delivery with long-term sustainability.

• Create, develop, and maintain backend services utilizing Python + PostgreSQL, Go, and a Java-based Drools rules engine.

• Lead technical initiatives across teams — collaborate with other Bestow engineering teams to strategize and implement integration efforts across the platform.

• Enhance platform capabilities that scale with Bestow's expanding partner ecosystem — including new carrier onboardings, product launches, and configuration adaptability.

• Guide engineers within the team through code reviews, design assessments, and collaborative programming — elevate the technical standards without causing delivery delays.

• Ensure reliability in production: establish SLOs, enhance observability, and share on-call duties for IPC workloads.

• Integrate agentic AI coding tools as a fundamental aspect of your workflow and assist the team in adopting effective AI-driven development practices.

• Articulate technical decisions, trade-offs, and updates clearly in writing — as the team operates in a remote-first and asynchronous environment.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of professional experience in backend software development; you've previously held Staff or Senior level roles.

• Strong expertise in Go and Python; Java experience is advantageous.

• Extensive experience with distributed systems, microservices, and API design (Protocol Buffers, OpenAPI).

• Proficient with PostgreSQL or other relational databases at scale.

• Practical experience with cloud infrastructure — Kubernetes, Docker, GCP (or equivalent).

• Proven history of building, deploying, and troubleshooting production services from start to finish.

• Demonstrated experience utilizing agentic AI coding tools as part of your daily workflow.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity based on the role.

• Policies and management that promote work/life balance, including flexible paid time off and parental leave programs.

• 100% paid-premium option for medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Lifestyle stipend to enhance your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.

• Flexible work-from-home policy and openness to remote work.

• Options for remote work and WFH, as well as a modern, state-of-the-art office located in Dallas’ Deep Ellum, for those who prefer an office environment.

• Employee-led initiatives focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion.