Backend Engineer (Python/Go)

PolicyFly

New York, NY

2 years ago

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Headquarters: New York, NY
URL: https://www.policyfly.com

How many Scoops of Django do you enjoy? Does writing a protobuf message excite you? Are you driven by high quality code, risk isolation, and fault tolerance? Great, keep reading.

We’re on the hunt for a talented Backend Engineer that will help transform the ancient world of specialty insurance with robust, distributed systems and clean, backend API architectures. We are converting prior monolith architectures to microservices and rapidly adding various system integrations as the product matures.

With customers in the UK and US, PolicyFly has grown quickly to become the market leader as a best-in-class platform for specialty insurers to transact and bind insurance worldwide. With decades of software engineering experience, PolicyFly has one of the most mature, robust engineering organizations in all of insurance.

Think you’re a good fit? Please apply, we’d love to chat!

Languages

Expert in Python -- you should feel extremely comfortable with developing and maintaining scalable enterprise Python applications
Experience with Go -- you may not have a ton of experience but have built a few apps and want to do a lot more Go!

Tools

Strong knowledge of Linux, you should use Linux on as your primary OS
Working knowledge of Docker
Experience with PostgreSQL/MySQL
Experience with gRPC and Protobuf a plus
Working knowledge of Kubernetes or some other container orchestration system (Docker Swarm, etc) a plus

Methods

Working knowledge of microservice architectures
Working knowledge of CI/CD a plus
Strong experience with composing unit and functional tests
Strong experience with composing written documentation
Good knowledge of composing software requirements in iterative development workflows

General

Comfortable working remotely, overlapping EST by ~6+ hours per day (generally this means east of MST unless you are a real early bird, Canada/Mexico/LATAM also OK)

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