Senior Backend Engineer (Remote, US)

Openly is rebuilding insurance from the ground up. We are re-envisioning and enhancing every aspect of the customer experience. Doing this requires a rapidly growing team of exceptional, curious, empathetic people with a wide range of skill sets, spanning technology, data science, product, marketing, sales, service, claims handling, finance, etc.

We created Openly because we saw an evident gap in the market for premium insurance made simple. Consumers deserve more complete coverage at competitive prices.

• The Price Difference: Using cutting-edge data and technology, we provide you with customizable, competitive prices to protect your most valuable assets.
• The Policy Difference: Coverages are truly customizable to meet your individual protection needs, for both standard coverages and optional add-ons.
• The Experience Difference: From tailored claims handling to highly responsive customer service, we are focused on making the home insurance purchasing process a better overall experience.

At Openly, our people are just as important as our product. For us, collaboration, communication, and work-life balance are more than nice-to-haves— they’re the must-haves that make us who we are. We believe a great company is the result of a shared set of values, so we look for these qualities in every candidate we hire. 

• Integrity
• Empathy
• Teamwork
• Curiosity
• Urgency

We've designed our hiring process with you, the candidate, in mind. At every step, you have the chance to present your strengths and learn more about what makes Openly a great place to work.

We embrace individuality and believe diverse teams are winning teams. Our commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experience drives us forward every day.

We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to be a part of one of our core teams building the backend for Openly's insurance platform. You will play an essential role in designing, building, testing, and maintaining the services and technology that power our insurance offering and customer experiences.

• →Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop the core systems and create APIs that power our best-in-class user experiences.
• →Build out our internal tooling and APIs to make business and engineering processes easier, faster, and safer.
• →Implement systemic changes to align existing systems with current architectural goals.
• →Integrate with external services to manage payments, documents, and claims.
• →Integrate with data providers to source real-time information on hundreds of data points, including property characteristics and risk profiles.
• →Provide subject matter expertise, mentorship, and support to individuals on your team.
• →Collaborate on architectural discussions with your team.
• →Contribute to important architectural and operational decisions like microservices vs. monoliths, deployment techniques, technologies, policies, etc.
• →Participate in daily stand-ups, weekly 1:1's, and biweekly retros.

• Backend: Go & Postgresql   
• Frontend: Browser-based, VueJS, Webpack, Nuxt &, Tailwind  
• Research/Data Science: R, ArcGIS, Jupyter Notebooks, & Python  
• Data: GCP GCS, BigQuery, Composer/Airflow, Cloud Functions, Postgres, SQL, Python, Go, Aiven Debezium and Kafka, Fivetran  
• Infrastructure: Google Cloud, specifically Cloud Run, Kubernetes, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, and CloudSQL, managed with Terraform. We use GitHub for code hosting, DataDog for monitoring, and CircleCI for running our CI/CD pipelines.  
• Remote work tools: Slack, Zoom, Donut  

• At least 4 years of professional/production experience developing backend web-stack applications.
• Professional experience leveraging Go in prior roles. Please note, part of the interview process includes completing a code challenge in Go.
• Sustained track record of creating improvements in business-critical systems around stability, performance, and scalability.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver complete systems from start to finish in a reasonable time frame with little or no supervision.
• Strong interpersonal skills, such as an ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

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