Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bestow is a vertical technology platform that helps life insurers modernize and operate more efficiently through unified infrastructure, AI, and automation. The Senior Backend Engineer will build and scale Go services for agent quoting, configuration, and application submission, while providing architectural leadership, addressing partner-specific edge cases, and improving testing, automation, and CI/CD practices.
Responsibilities
- Build and scale Go services powering agent quoting, configuration, and application-submission tools used before checkout
- Partner closely with the App & Checkout teams given the tight coupling between surfaces
- Take on architectural-leadership work that the team's acting-EM situation has left open — proposing direction, not just executing it
- Resolve partner-specific edge cases as distribution partners and volume scale
- Write unit and integration tests for the code you ship; peer review code from others on the team
- Use AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) as a default part of your daily workflow — this is an expectation, not a bonus skill
- Help transfer knowledge to a team with a high contractor ratio (Howdy), given the limited dedicated onboarding structure today
- Encourage automation, CI/CD, and continuous improvement across the team
Skills
- 5+ years of professional backend software development experience
- Professional experience with Go; comfortable owning services end to end
- Experience with distributed systems or microservices, and designing APIs (REST, gRPC, OpenAPI, Protocol Buffers)
- Experience using Docker for local development, and CI/CD as a default practice
- Demonstrated, day-to-day fluency using AI tools (Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, etc.) in real engineering work — able to speak concretely about where they help and where they don't
- Comfortable stepping into architectural or mentorship gaps without needing a formal title to do so
Benefits
- Equity based on role
- Flexible paid time off
- 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
- Access to a state-of-the-art office in Dallas’ Deep Ellum for those who prefer an office setting
- Employee-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
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