Staff Backend Engineer at WhyHireWrong? | AT | Rezi

Staff Backend Engineer at WhyHireWrong?

Staff Backend Engineer

WhyHireWrong? · AT

3 days ago

Staff Backend Engineer

WhyHireWrong? · AT

3 days ago
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About the Role

We are seeking strong backend engineers to join our Core Backend team. You will design services, data models, pipelines, and evaluation loops to build an intelligence layer that improves decision-making within the insurance industry. This role involves high ownership of business-critical infrastructure, contributing to more complete data, transparent decisions, and valuable products.

Responsibilities

  • Design services, data models, pipelines, and evaluation loops.
  • Work on systems at the center of the business.
  • Contribute to making data more complete and decisions more transparent.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Excellent at your craft and relentless in pursuing it.
  • Full ownership of work, driving projects to completion with minimal oversight.
  • Proactive communication, surfacing blockers, asking the right questions, and keeping stakeholders in the loop.
  • Comfort with experimentation, testing ideas, measuring results, and iterating quickly.
  • Strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving.
  • Experience with serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments.
  • Comfort with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL.
  • Experience with LLMs/generative AI (bonus).
  • Experience with distributed systems (bonus).

Skills

  • Python
  • Object-Oriented Programming
  • Serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2)
  • Asynchronous workflows
  • Cloud environments
  • Relational databases
  • PostgreSQL
  • LLMs/generative AI
  • Distributed systems
  • System design
  • Debugging
  • Problem-solving

Location

  • Global

Work Type

  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience

Salary/Compensations

  • Competitive salary based on experience level

Benefits

  • Significant equity options package
  • 20 days of PTO a year
  • Global team offsites
  • Healthy living/gym stipend
  • Mobile phone bill stipend
  • Continuing education credits

About the Company

  • We are building AI that can perform professional labor within the $7T global insurance industry, starting with augmenting professionals and progressing to automation.
  • Our products are in production with leading insurers, driving measurable outcomes.
  • We are building the AI operating system for decision-making across insurance.
  • We are backed by leading investors and our team has experience from top tech companies and consultancies.