Senior Backend Engineer

Foster City, CA, United States

You’ll be able to focus on the difficult task of building a world-class product based on market feedback from their customers and partners

They want to build a world-class product and engineering culture in the Bay Area, and they’d like members of these teams to work in-person at least a few days per week

You'll own the backend architecture of our app

You will work closely with engineering, and product to understand the use cases and iterate on the backend

You'll ship frequently as we iterate on the product

You'll delete and refactor a lot of code

It’s important to write code and ship, but it’s also important to remove code and make the codebase easier to work on

As an early engineer, we will be looking to you to help realize our vision when it comes to the backend

You'll set the tone for backend

90% coverage of healthcare for individual and families

unlimited PTO

lunch catered for in office days

dinner together once a month

Responsibilities You’ll be able to focus on the difficult task of building a world-class product based on market feedback from their customers and partners

They want to build a world-class product and engineering culture in the Bay Area, and they’d like members of these teams to work in-person at least a few days per week

You'll own the backend architecture of our app

You will work closely with engineering, and product to understand the use cases and iterate on the backend

You'll ship frequently as we iterate on the product

You'll delete and refactor a lot of code

It’s important to write code and ship, but it’s also important to remove code and make the codebase easier to work on

As an early engineer, we will be looking to you to help realize our vision when it comes to the backend

Benefits You'll set the tone for backend

90% coverage of healthcare for individual and families

unlimited PTO

lunch catered for in office days

dinner together once a month

Compensation: $140-175k base plus equity

Who is Recruiting from Scratch:

Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire. We work with companies funded by the best investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Tiger Global... Management, A16Z, Accel, DFJ, and more. If you are a fit, the team will reach out to you about this role or any others that may be a fit for our clients.

About Our Client

They're a fully-digital insurance company focused on small businesses. They develop their own unique insurance products from the ground up, and they combine that with software that automates the process to get covered and file claims. And they give business owners the tools they need to operate their business with less risk. As you can probably tell, they have a big goal and there is tons to do! :)

Their founding team has a track record in InsurTech and product development DNA, having most recently built a startup with 50 employees, serving the largest insurance companies in the world, and having raised over $39M in venture capital. You’ll be able to focus on the difficult task of building a world-class product based on market feedback from their customers and partners.

They want to build a world-class product and engineering culture in the Bay Area, and they’d like members of these teams to work in-person at least a few days per week. They trust that you’ll get your work done, the in-person is mostly about team building and culture.

Tech Stack: Go

About The Role

• You'll own the backend architecture of our app. How do we keep a record of all changes and all data fields that go into insurance rate calculations? What’s the API between the frontend and backend look like? You will work closely with engineering, and product to understand the use cases and iterate on the backend.

• You'll ship frequently as we iterate on the product. There's a lot of stuff we need to build! We're also probably not going to get features right the first time, so we're going to need to iterate quickly.

• You'll delete and refactor a lot of code. It’s important to write code and ship, but it’s also important to remove code and make the codebase easier to work on. We care about making sure the codebase is well structured and as simple as possible so we can stay motivated and not feel drained after a day’s worth of work.

• You'll set the tone for backend. As an early engineer, we will be looking to you to help realize our vision when it comes to the backend. You'll get to have a lot of say in engineering practices and how the backend is architected.

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco (in office M-Th)

Benefits:

• 90% coverage of healthcare for individual and families

• unlimited PTO

• lunch catered for in office days

• dinner together once a month

Compensation: $140-175k base plus equity Company information

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