Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bestow is a technology platform modernizing the life insurance industry through AI, automation, and integrated infrastructure for life insurers. The Senior Backend Engineer II will build and operate IPC backend services, contribute to technical decisions, support platform scalability and reliability, collaborate across engineering teams, and mentor other engineers.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to technical design decisions for IPC services, balancing delivery speed w/ long-term maintainability
- Design, build, operate backend services using Python + PostgreSQL, Go, Java-based Drools rules engine
- Partner w/ other Bestow engineering teams on integration work across platform
- Help build platform capabilities that scale w/ Bestow's growing partner ecosystem — new carrier onboardings, product launches, config flexibility
- Mentor engineers through code review, design review, pairing
- Support production reliability: help maintain/improve SLOs, strengthen observability, share on-call for IPC workloads
- Use agentic AI coding tools as core part of workflow, help team adopt effective AI-assisted dev practices
- Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs, status clearly in writing — team remote-first, async-heavy
Skills
- 5+ years professional backend software dev experience, at Senior level
- Strong proficiency in Go and Python; Java experience plus
- Solid experience w/ distributed systems, microservices, API design (Protocol Buffers, OpenAPI)
- Comfortable w/ PostgreSQL or other relational DBs at scale
- Hands-on w/ cloud infra — Kubernetes, Docker, GCP (or equivalent)
- Track record building, deploying, troubleshooting production services end-to-end
- You seek out problems before they find you — proactively identify risks, propose solutions, drive to completion
- Write maintainable, well-tested software, hold self and peers to high quality bar
- Demonstrated experience w/ agentic AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) in daily workflow — deliberate practice, not occasional use
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity based on role
- 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 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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