Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Who We Are

Nirvana’s mission is to make businesses safer & smarter. Our technology platform delivers modern insurance & risk management to not only help our customers protect their businesses, but actually improve safety for everyone.

To start, we’re transforming the legacy, $1T+ commercial insurance industry through cutting-edge predictive models using real-time IoT data (~50B connected devices by 2030), automation to deliver instantaneous quotes & faster underwriting, & proactive, and data-driven insights to help customers prevent accidents.

 Backed by top-tier VCs including General Catalyst & Lightspeed Ventures, Nirvana became the fastest insurtech EVER to launch in Jan 2022 and has crossed >$10M run rate in under 6 months, 2x faster than best-in-class competitors. Our leadership team comes from Samsara, Rubrik, Flexport, Acko Insurance, including 30+yr insurance veterans from Hiscox, AIG & Progressive.

What You Will Do

As a backend engineer at Nirvana, you will,

• Own and build the product: You will take ownership of key parts of the product and drive it end-to-end with a customer-driven focus.

• Collaborate with a world-class team: We have an all-star engineering team out of organizations like Rubrik, Samsara and Apple; who believe that collaboration and open feedback are key to building excellent technical solutions to challenging problems.

• Build team and culture: At Nirvana, we believe that culture is the secret sauce to building a great engineering team. You will build and embody this culture - and set the bar high as we build the company.

Here are some of the components you will work on as we take the product to market.

• Insurance Product: Build a state-machine-driven system that can support complex insurance workflows involving multiple parties such as customers, agents, underwriters, etc. Learn to manage complexity as we add new products to our portfolio and directly impact the company’s top line.

• Core Data Platform: Support ingestion and real-time analysis for billions of heterogeneous data, including geospatial data, driving quality indicators from sensors and dashcam feeds, and vehicle health data from auto sensors. Architect this generically to support multiple data sources and account for differences among them. Ensure version control, lineage, and data quality control by design.

• Risk and Underwriting Engine: Build a data-driven risk engine to dynamically price premiums based on heterogeneous data types. Build a Domain Specific Language (DSL) to allow underwriters and actuaries to create and rapidly iterate on models. Use cutting-edge explainable ML to improve model performance and mine predictive signals. 

• Safety Platform: Build the industry’s first consumer quality insurance platform focused on safety. Help prevent accidents by engaging customers and actively supporting them on their safety journey. Bring a product-focused approach and consumer-grade tech to a big legacy market.

About You

• You are an owner. You are comfortable owning large parts of our product and driving the development and roadmap.

• You ship. You get satisfaction from getting your features into customers' hands in a short period of time. You take accountability for the end-to-end product experience of your features, warts and all.

• You are a craftsperson. You care deeply about delivering high-quality experiences and approach development with a high degree of craft. You are passionate about tooling and developer productivity.

• You like simplicity. You often find the simplest way of achieving something. You care about the long-term readability and maintainability of your codebase.

• You are a lifelong learner. You learn quickly and can operate independently. You're not afraid to take something on just because you don’t know how to do it yet.

• You value clear, open communication. You not only have the ability or skill to communicate effectively but also have the willingness to be open and honest in your communication. You demonstrate these abilities through thoughtful code reviews, honest and kind feedback, and documentation.

Your Background

• At least 5+ years of experience in writing non-trivial software applications in statically typed languages such as Golang/Scala/Java/C++.

• You have experience in designing, building, and growing highly scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant services that can support the growth of our business.

• You can break up a complex system into clean reusable components, and design ergonomic interfaces and abstractions for internal and external consumers.

• Apart from a deep understanding of the web stack, you understand how everything fits together (such as databases, caching, load balancers, networking, etc.) to debug for performance and reliability issues.

• You understand the importance of bringing data into decision-making and ensure that observability and metrics are part of everything you build.

• You like being a generalist. If we do our jobs well, you will spend more of your time building systems than fighting fires, so you should enjoy wearing many hats and working on many parts of the system.

• You have excellent communication skills and work well within the team as well as with stakeholders from other areas such as product and business.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation & meaningful equity

• Medical insurance

• Monthly stipend for anything that gives you joy

• Hybrid culture and reimbursement for home office equipment

• A flexible vacation policy and a team that understands building a company is a marathon, not a sprint

• A culture that gives you the autonomy you need to do great work, and the transparency you need to make good decisions

• #LI-Hybrid