Senior Back End Engineer

Role Description

Quanata (San Francisco, CA) seeks a Senior Back End Engineer to design, build, and maintain the critical backend services that power our various insurance platforms. Specific duties include:

• Analyze and design critical backend systems that power the business.
• Help develop systems that dynamically provide rewards to safe drivers.
• Coordinate cutting-edge models to increase the intelligence of the company’s industry leading policy management solution.
• Optimize the company’s application's architecture and observability to meet the performance demands of a rapidly growing user base.
• Design APIs, orchestrate data flows, create/manage databases, and build automated test suites.
• Lead the design and implementation of substantial product features end-to-end.
• Evaluate and integrate third-party services and tools.

Must take and pass a series of pre-hire technical assessments evaluating competencies in API design, code structure, and system architecture, including the Refactoring Challenge, Integration Challenge, and System Design Challenge. Option to work remotely from anywhere in the U.S. Occasional quarterly travel may be required within the U.S. for team meetings or company gatherings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science, or a closely related field of study.
• 5 years of experience in the job offered, or as a Lead Software Engineer, Computer Programmer Analyst, Senior Product Associate, Software Engineer, or similar senior software engineering position in backend services.
• 5 years of experience building high performance client/server systems.
• 3 years of experience with service-oriented architecture patterns.
• 3 years of experience designing and using relational databases.
• 1 year of experience working with Go.
• Specific experience with Postgres, AWS, Kafka, Python, JavaScript, Docker, and Swagger.
• Experience in a financial sector such as insurance, banking, or investing.

Requirements

• Must take and pass a series of pre-hire technical assessments evaluating competencies in API design, code structure, and system architecture, including the Refactoring Challenge, Integration Challenge, and System Design Challenge.
• Option to work remotely from anywhere in the U.S.
• Occasional quarterly travel may be required within the U.S. for team meetings or company gatherings.

Benefits

• Wide variety of health, wellness, and other benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and supplemental income plans for you and your dependents.
• Headspace app subscription and monthly wellness allowance.
• 401(k) Plan with a company match.
• One-time payment of $2K for in-home office equipment and furniture.
• MacBook Pro provided, fully provisioned prior to your first day.
• All employees accrue four weeks of PTO in their first year of employment.
• New parents receive twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Up to $5000 each year for professional learning, continuing education, and career development.
• Udemy subscriptions and access to coaching opportunities through BetterUp.

Company Description

Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customer-centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend some of the best Silicon Valley talent and cutting-edge thinking with the long-term backing of leading insurer, State Farm.