Backend/Data Engineer, Coverage Intelligence

Bold Penguin • Dublin, OH

2d • Remote

About The Position

Bold Penguin is hiring a Backend/Data Engineer for its Coverage Intelligence team. The role designs, builds, and operates the pipelines, data stores, services, and data contracts that deliver coverage insights to other teams and products. It focuses on traceable results, data quality and lineage, and infrastructure for measuring and improving accuracy with each release. The engineer owns the reliability, performance, and cost of production services; upholds security and privacy standards for sensitive policy and customer data; and partners with engineers and specialists across teams to integrate coverage data into the wider platform. Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned.

This is a fully remote role, except for required onboarding and optional in-office events. New-hire onboarding and orientation take place at the Bold Penguin office in Dublin, Ohio, for two days and two nights, with travel costs covered by the company. Occasional travel of up to 10% is required for corporate events and team planning sessions.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in backend or data engineering, building and operating production services and pipelines.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.
• Experience with MongoDB and relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Experience designing APIs and data contracts consumed by other teams.
• Experience with workflow orchestration such as Prefect or Airflow, and with batch and event-driven processing.
• Hands-on AWS experience, including containers, infrastructure as code, and observability tooling.
• Experience modeling versioned, effective-dated reference data.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work autonomously with minimal direction, set a clear path through ambiguity, and maintain a high bar for quality.
• Comfort with startup pace, changing priorities, and building a function while operating it.
• Ability to sit, stand, or walk for prolonged periods, up to 8 hours per day, while working at a computer.
• Ability to use standard office equipment for extended periods, including a mouse, keyboard, phone, and video conferencing equipment.
• Ability to travel to the Bold Penguin office in Dublin, Ohio, for new-hire onboarding and orientation (2 days, 2 nights).
• Ability to travel occasionally, up to 10%, for corporate events and team planning sessions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting machine learning or LLM systems in production, such as data pipelines, evaluation data, or model serving (strongly preferred).
• Experience with search stores such as OpenSearch (preferred).
• Experience supporting LLM observability or evaluation tooling (preferred).
• Insurance or insurtech experience, including familiarity with insurance concepts and insurance-specific canonical data models (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the pipelines and data stores behind coverage intelligence.
• Build services and data contracts that deliver coverage insights to other teams and products.
• Ensure results can be traced to their sources through strong data quality and lineage.
• Build data infrastructure to measure accuracy and improve it with each release.
• Own the reliability, performance, and cost of production services.
• Uphold security and privacy standards for sensitive policy and customer data.
• Partner with engineers and specialists across teams to integrate coverage data into the wider platform.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Flexible PTO policy.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Parental leave.
• Disability and life benefits.
• Slack channels for work and social interaction, video conferences, and regular all-hands meetings.
• Company-themed swag.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed