Senior Back End Engineer Remote

Overview

Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customer centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend some of the best Silicon Valley talent and cutting-edge thinking with the long-term backing of leading insurer, State Farm.

We are seeking a senior backend engineer to build and enhance the critical services that power our business. You’ll be developing systems that manage core financial and underwriting operations, coordinating dynamic machine learning models to increase the intelligence of our industry-leading policy management solution, and optimizing our application’s architecture and observability to meet the performance and reliability demands of our customers.

• Design and implement client-facing and internal APIs
• Orchestrate data flows between backend systems
• Create and manage database schemas
• Build automated test suites
• Lead the design and implementation of substantial product features end-to-end
• Evaluate and integrate with third-party services and tools
• Help to mentor mid-level and junior engineers on your team

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 5-7 or more years experience in a full stack or backend role
• Technical skills

• Professional experience with Go
• Experience designing, developing, debugging, and deploying high performance client/server systems for mission-critical applications
• Comfort working with both relational and non-relational database systems
• Familiarity with a wide variety of messaging systems, with opinions on which to use when
• Comfort working with cloud-based infrastructure providers and modern CI/CD
• Knowledge of security and testing best practices

• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Growth mindset, and the humility to model it for others
• Willingness to take initiative and accountability
• Prior experience as a technical lead or people manager

• Familiarity with some of the other technologies we use including Graph
  
  QL, gRPC, Postgres, Mongo, Snowflake, Kafka, Python, Type Script, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS
• Experience in a financial sector such as insurance, banking, or investing

Salary: $195,000 to $280,000*

* Please note that the final salary offered will be determined based on the selected candidate s skills, and experience, as well as the internal salary structure  aim is to offer a competitive and equitable compensation package that reflects the candidate s expertise and contributions to our organization.

• Benefits
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  We provide a wide variety of health, wellness and other benefits. These include medical, dental, vision, life insurance and supplemental income plans for you and your dependents, a Headspace app subscription, monthly wellness allowance and a 401(k) Plan with a company match.
• Work from Home Equipment
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  Given our virtual environment — a one-time payment of $2K will be provided to cover the purchase of in-home office equipment and furniture at your discretion. We also provide Mac Book Pros, delivered fully provisioned prior to your first day.
• Paid Time Off
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  All employees accrue four weeks of PTO in their first year of employment. New parents receive twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave which may be taken within one year after the birth and/or adoption of a child. The twelve weeks is applicable to both birthing and non-birthing parent.
• Personal and Professional Development
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  All employees receive up to $5000 each year for professional learning, continuing education and career development. Team members also receive Linked In Learning subscriptions and access to coaching opportunities through Better Up.
• Location
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  Remote-first company for most positions; you may work from anywhere in the U.S., excluding U.S. territories. For most positions, occasional travel may be requested or encouraged but is not required. Some positions might require travel per the job description. Employees based in the San Francisco Bay Area or Providence, Rhode Island may commute to a local office as desired.
• Hours
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  Core meeting hours from 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM Pacific time for collaboration across time zones.

Quanata, LLC is an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

If you are a San Francisco resident, please read the City and County of San Francisco s Fair Chance Ordinance notice.

This role is employed by Quanata, LLC which is a separate company in the State Farm family of companies. If you require a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to your Talent Acquisition Partner for assistance.