Bestow-posted 4 months ago
Mid Level
Dallas, TX
101-250 employees

Bestow is a leading insurance technology platform serving some of the world's largest and most innovative life insurers. We are on a mission to increase financial stability for everyone. Bestow is a team of mission-driven, results-oriented individuals. We offer all employees a remote (contiguous 48 only)/hybrid workplace, meaningful benefits, substantial growth opportunities, and equity. Bestow participates in the E-Verify Program. The Engineering team is responsible for all technology for Bestow and the Bestow Platform. We serve employees, consumers, and enterprise customers. In addition to building software, we integrate and manage many third-party products used by employees and as part of the platform. Our major functional teams are product engineering, infrastructure, IT, data & analytics, MarTech, and program management. Engineering works closely with product management and design to define and prioritize the product roadmap. As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Origination Group Engineering Team, you will work closely with the Enrollment Product Managers, Underwriters, and our external partners to develop and support solutions to power our digital life insurance enrollment experience. You will also collaborate with teams across Bestow to plan and execute the product roadmap. Our system is composed of several modular services written in Python, Java, and Go. The Origination Group services are written in Python and Java and integrate with other services using gRPC, REST, and async messaging patterns. Our services run on Kubernetes in Google Cloud Platform, and you will share responsibility for operating our workloads on these platforms.

  • Develop web services using Python + PostgreSQL, Java, and Drools Rule Language.
  • Build new platform capabilities that scale with our business.
  • Ensure effective written communication and teleconference skills.
  • Collaborate with Enrollment Product Managers, Underwriters, and external partners.
  • 3-7 years of professional software development experience (backend).
  • Professional experience with Python or Java is preferred.
  • Comfortable using Docker for local software development.
  • Experience working with distributed systems or microservices.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases (comfortable writing ANSI SQL).
  • Experience designing APIs (Protocol Buffers, Swagger, OpenAPI, etc.).
  • Experience building, deploying, operating, and troubleshooting software.
  • Cloud computing & Kubernetes (or similar container orchestration) preferred.
  • 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.
  • Employee-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
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