Golang Job: Staff Software Engineer

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Company

Bestow
United States of America

Location

Remote Position
(From Everywhere/No Office Location)

Job type

Full-Time

Golang Job Details

ABOUT BESTOW

Bestow is the leading digital platform for life insurance. As both a direct-to-consumer destination and an infrastructure provider, Bestow is on a mission to make life insurance accessible to millions of underserved families.

We strive for work-life balance and believe happy employees make for better experiences and happier customers. It’s a model that helped us land on Forbes’ Best Startup Employers 2021 and 2022 lists!

ABOUT THE TEAM

Here at Bestow, the Tooling & Framework (T&F) team is responsible for the development, delivery, and operation of backend services that enable our users to apply and enroll in a life insurance policy. As one of the larger engineering groups, T&F engineers share the unique experience of working across the engineering organization to help support our multiple business lines and critical initiatives. Engineers in this team understand our business and current architecture and also ideate, design, and implement new technology solutions that improve the developer experience and productivity for all of Bestow.

Open to Austin, TX, Dallas, TX or Remote (US) #LI-Remote

ABOUT THE ROLE

  • As a Staff Software Engineer on the Tooling and Framework team, be ready to evolve and improve our Python and Golang codebase that underpins our Enrollment platform.
  • You will help lead the team in adopting best-in-class tooling and standards to maintain an excellent developer experience.
  • You will serve as an advocate for product quality, security, and performance improvements.

THIS ROLE REPORTS TO

  • Senior Engineering Manager for Tooling & Framework

YOUR EXPERIENCE

  • 7+ years of software development experience
  • Professional experience with Python and/or Golang
  • Professional experience deploying to production using Kubernetes
  • Experience with writing automated tests and building CI/CD pipelines (bonus if you’ve worked with CircleCI)
  • Experience with working in an on-call rotation for diagnosing/troubleshooting production incidents and issues, willingness to take on-call shifts as needed
  • Willingness to provide mentor junior and mid-level engineers
  • Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve these problems.
  • Demonstrated capacity to communicate complex technical, architecturally concise, and organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
  • Positive and solution-oriented mindset
  • You help foster a culture of communication, inclusion, and visibility.

TOTAL REWARDS

  • Competitive salary, bonus & stock options
  • Open PTO plan
  • 100% paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Annual bonus based on individual and company performance
  • Generous equity grant based on level
  • Flexible work-from-home policy and open to remote
TOTAL REWARDS

Competitive salary and equity based on role
Annual bonus based on company and individual performance
Flexible PTO plan
100% paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance
Paid parental leave
Annual lifestyle spending account to support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
Flexible work-from-home policy and open to remote
Learning & Development opportunities

We value diversity at Bestow. We hire, recruit, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We understand the importance of creating a safe and comfortable work environment and encourage individualism and authenticity in every member of our team.