Senior Full Stack Software Engineering

About Us and Position Overview Kettle is a fast growing Managing General Agency (MGA) specializing in wildfire insurance combining advanced underwriting technology with deep industry experience.
We’re looking for a Senior Full-stack Software Engineer with strong DevOps experience and front-end abilities to join our engineering team. In this role, you will architect, build, and maintain core systems across our AWS-based stack, contribute to front-end product development, and help scale Kettle’s engineering infrastructure as we grow. You’ll start by shipping and improving systems directly, with scope and ownership expanding as you ramp.
You’ll work closely with data engineering, modeling, risk, and product teams to deliver performant, reliable, and secure systems that support our underwriting platform and geospatial analytics tools.
As Kettle grows, our engineering systems are becoming more central to underwriting, mapping, and data science workflows. We are a small, senior engineering team where backend and modeling capabilities are strong, but we are looking to further elevate our infrastructure, DevOps posture, and front-end tooling as our platform scales.
Today, much of the system works well and supports real underwriting decisions in production. However, as usage increases, we need to improve deployment reliability, observability, infrastructure consistency, and the overall developer experience. This role exists to help us proactively strengthen those foundations rather than reacting to scale challenges later.
We are looking for a senior engineer who can improve the reliability, scalability, and developer experience of our AWS-based platform while also contributing to the internal tools and interfaces used by underwriting and risk teams every day.
This is a product-minded engineer who is comfortable across the stack, with primary strength in infrastructure, followed by front-end tooling, and backend systems. Improve observability, monitoring, and deployment reliability
Ship meaningful improvements to internal dashboards and underwriting tools
Become a key partner to data engineering and modeling teams for system reliability
Have materially improved our DevOps posture and developer workflows
Help shape how new underwriting and mapping products are deployed and supported
Raise the engineering standard across backend, infra, and internal tooling

Infrastructure & DevOps
Improve parts of Kettle’s AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, and containerized workloads
Improve observability, logging, monitoring, deployment reliability, and cost efficiency
Front-end Tooling
~ Build and maintain internal dashboards and tools in React/TypeScript

Contribute to architecture decisions across backend, infrastructure, and applications
Design and maintain backend services and internal APIs (Python)
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
~5+ years of professional software development experience, including ownership of production systems

Operating production systems in AWS (ECS, EC2, Lambda, S3, IAM, RDS, etc.)
DevOps practices: CI/CD, Docker, monitoring, reliability, security best practices
React / TypeScript frontend development
Postgres and database-backed applications
Experience in python development, including packaging and environment management

Own systems end-to-end, from design through deployment and ongoing operation
Improve engineering workflows, deployment processes, and overall system reliability
Opportunity to influence cutting-edge wildfire risk modeling in a dynamic industry.
Competitive salary and benefits package, including remote work.
This position is eligible for stock options (subject to board approval).

Kettle provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.