Senior Backend Engineer, Go

🕒 March 28

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $145k - $170.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Bestow

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

💳 Fintech

Consulting • Healthcare • Fintech

Bestow is a leading life insurance SaaS platform provider that offers innovative technology solutions for life and annuity insurance carriers. By providing tools such as digital applications, customizable underwriting engines, and comprehensive customer portals, Bestow helps streamline the entire insurance process from quoting to policy administration. The company focuses on enhancing the speed and efficiency of insurance operations, enabling carriers to launch new products swiftly and optimize their customer service capabilities.

📋 Description

• Build and scale Go services powering agent quoting, configuration, and application-submission tools used before checkout • Partner closely with the App & Checkout teams • Propose architectural direction and provide architectural leadership • Resolve partner-specific edge cases as distribution partners and volume scale • Write unit and integration tests for shipped code • Peer review code from other team members • Use AI coding tools as a default part of the daily workflow • Transfer knowledge to a team with a high contractor ratio and limited dedicated onboarding structure • Encourage automation, CI/CD, and continuous improvement across the team

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional backend software development experience • Professional experience with Go; comfortable owning services end to end • Experience with distributed systems or microservices • Experience designing APIs, including REST, gRPC, OpenAPI, and Protocol Buffers • Experience using Docker for local development • Experience with CI/CD as a default practice • Demonstrated day-to-day fluency using AI tools such as Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, and ChatGPT in real engineering work • Ability to step into architectural or mentorship gaps without needing a formal title • Must reside in the contiguous 48 states of the United States • Must be authorized to work full-time in the United States; visa sponsorship requirements must be disclosed

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity based on role • Flexible paid time off • Parental leave programs • 100% paid-premium option for medical, dental, and vision insurance • Lifestyle stipend supporting physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing • Flexible work-from-home policy • Remote and WFH options • State-of-the-art office in Dallas’ Deep Ellum for those who prefer an office setting • Employee-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives • Bonus