Staff Backend Engineer

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🕒 May 4

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $202k - $237.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 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

• Own the technical architecture for IPC services, making design decisions that balance speed of delivery with long-term maintainability • Design, build, and operate backend services using Python + PostgreSQL, Go, and a Java-based Drools rules engine • Lead cross-team technical initiatives — coordinate with other Bestow engineering teams to plan and execute integration work across the platform • Drive platform capabilities that scale with Bestow's growing partner ecosystem — new carrier onboardings, product launches, and configuration flexibility • Mentor engineers on the team through code review, design review, and pairing — raise the technical bar without bottlenecking delivery • Ensure production reliability: define SLOs, improve observability, and share on-call responsibility for IPC workloads • Use agentic AI coding tools as a core part of your workflow and help the team adopt effective AI-assisted development practices • Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs, and status clearly in writing — the team is remote-first and async-heavy

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional backend software development experience; you've operated at the Staff or Senior level before • Strong proficiency in Go and Python; Java experience is a plus • Deep experience with distributed systems, microservices, and API design (Protocol Buffers, OpenAPI) • Comfortable with PostgreSQL or other relational databases at scale • Hands-on with cloud infrastructure — Kubernetes, Docker, GCP (or equivalent) • Proven track record building, deploying, and troubleshooting production services end-to-end • Demonstrated experience with agentic AI coding tools integrated into your daily workflow

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity based on role • Policies and managers that support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave programs • 100% paid-premium option for medical, dental, and vision insurance • Lifestyle stipend to support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing • Flexible work-from-home policy and open to remote • Remote and WFH options, as well as a beautiful, state-of-the-art office in Dallas’ Deep Ellum, for those who prefer an office setting • Employee-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives