Backend Engineer II (Remote, US)

Why Openly

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.

The Openly Difference

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.

Welcome to your next adventure.

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're committed to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

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.

Job Details

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

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with frontend engineers to create API's to provide a best-in-class experience for our users
• Integrate with external services using APIs 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
• Build out our APIs so that third-party resellers can purchase insurance from us programmatically.
• Contribute to important architectural and operational decisions like microservices vs. monoliths, deployment techniques, technologies, policies, processes, etc.
• Build out our internal tooling and APIs to make business and engineering processes easier, faster, and safer.
• Participate in daily stand-ups, weekly 1:1's, and biweekly retros
• Provide subject matter expertise and support to partners across the business
• Spread your expertise at the company (e.g., promote best practices and share what you've learned)

Requirements

• Computer science or engineering college degree or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of professional/production experience developing backend web-stack applications, preferably in Go, but other languages are also considered. *Previous experience developing in Go is not a requirement to apply. Please note, part of the interview process includes completing a code challenge in Go.
• Ability to build a complete feature with technical direction. Solid understanding of core engineering concepts relevant to the company's technical needs.
• Ability to explain technical challenges to technical audiences

Our stack

• Backend/Core: 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

Benefits & Perks

• Remote-First Culture - We supported #remotelife long before it was a given. We'll keep promoting it.
• Competitive Salary & Equity
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Plan Offerings
• Life and disability coverage including voluntary options
• Parental Leave - up to 8 weeks (320 hours) of paid parental leave based on meeting eligibility requirements

(Birthing parents may be eligible for additional leave through STD)

• 401K Company Contribution - Openly contributes 3% of the employee's gross income, even if the employee does not contribute.
• Work-from-home stipend - We