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Senior Backend Engineer – Client Integrations
Location: Remote – United States
Company Stage of Funding: Venture-Backed Growth-Stage Company
Office Type: Remote
Salary: $165,000–$225,000 + Significant Equity
Company Description
- We’re representing a venture-backed AI company building professional-grade software for the insurance industry.
- Its platform helps insurers automate and improve critical workflows across underwriting, claims, pricing, operations, and distribution.
- The company’s products are already in production with leading insurers, and the team includes talent from companies such as Facebook, Palantir, Google, Amazon, Uber, Mastercard, and McKinsey.
- This role sits on the Client Integrations team and focuses on the external APIs and backend systems that connect the company’s platform to customer workflows and third-party services.
What You Will Do
- Design and build external-facing APIs that support customer workflows.
- Own backend integrations with a wide range of third-party systems and services.
- Translate product and customer requirements into reliable backend business logic.
- Build and improve API endpoints that are stable, scalable, and easy for customers to use.
- Improve database and query performance across backend systems.
- Work with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL.
- Build asynchronous workflows and cloud-native backend services.
- Work with serverless and cloud technologies, including Lambda and EC2.
- Diagnose and resolve customer-facing technical issues.
- Improve platform reliability, performance, and operational stability.
- Collaborate with full-stack, data, ML, and DevOps engineers on scalable backend architecture.
- Own projects independently from technical design through production deployment and iteration.
- Contribute to making the platform easier to integrate with and operate at scale.
Ideal Background
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong backend engineering background.
- Meaningful experience building external-facing APIs.
- Experience designing and maintaining integrations with third-party systems.
- Strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving.
- Production experience with Python is preferred, though strong candidates from other object-oriented language backgrounds can be considered.
- Experience with serverless technologies, asynchronous workflows, and cloud infrastructure.
- Comfortable working with relational databases and optimizing queries.
- Strong understanding of backend reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Able to independently own projects and drive them to completion with limited oversight.
- Strong communicator who proactively surfaces blockers and keeps stakeholders informed.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment with experimentation and changing requirements.
Preferred
- Strong production experience with Python.
- Experience with PostgreSQL.
- Experience building integrations for B2B or enterprise software.
- Familiarity with distributed systems.
- Experience with LLMs or generative AI.
- Background in infrastructure-heavy or API-first software.
- Experience supporting customer-facing production systems where reliability and correctness are important.
- Startup or growth-stage experience with significant individual ownership.
Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary: $165,000–$225,000.
- Significant equity options package.
- Location: Remote within the United States.
- 20 days of PTO annually.
- Global company offsites.
- 100% covered PPO medical insurance for individuals and families.
- 100% covered dental and vision insurance for individuals and families.
- 401(k) with employer contribution regardless of employee contribution.
- Healthy living/gym stipend.
- Mobile phone stipend.
- Continuing education credits.
- Best suited for a backend engineer who enjoys APIs, third-party integrations, customer-facing technical problems, and owning reliable production systems end-to-end.
- Salary Range: $165,000-$225,000 base.
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