Senior Backend Engineer

Join a leading insurtech company that is unlocking the potential of digital insurance to help everyone protect what matters most! Are you up for the challenge?

Founded in 2015, Sure is the fastest growing insurtech behind the world's most sophisticated digital insurance programs. Sure unlocks the power of digital insurance to enable brands and carriers to distribute insurance products quickly on its technology rails, reaching and engaging customers wherever they are on their journey. Our solutions provide a hassle free way to buy insurance anywhere, enabling our partners to make digital insurance accessible to all.

🤝 Culture is everything. Join an incredible team of smart, passionate, collaborative and driven individuals. We empower our teams and promote autonomy and independence wherever we can.

🌐 We are remote first. We work from home and we love it!

🏆 Strive for greatness. We’ve been named the13th Fastest Growing Company by Deloitte Technology Fast 500, an Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Company in North America, a two-time Forbes Fintech 50 honoree, and a CNBC World’s Top Insurtech Company, among other accolades and recognitions.

💰Funding. In October 2021, we raised $100M in our Series C with a $550M valuation.

We’re growing!

We are looking for strong Backend Engineers who have experience building systems with high availability that grow at scale for our SaaS platform.

You’ll work closely with our front end engineers and our product team, with a direct impact in the products you’ll be building. As a small distributed team, we rely heavily on effective communication and autonomy in order to build, iterate, and ship rapidly.

Our philosophy is that you would be teaching us as much as you'd learn from us. By learning and inspiring others, you'll help cultivate an environment that makes us better at what we do each day.

• Own configurable-driven SaaS billing and rating calculator solutions, releasing code often and confidently.
• Support our document generation, rendering, and customer and partner communication systems through PR reviews and design input.
• Collaborate with designers and product managers to enhance our premium calculation features. Assist in the development of modular and scalable financial processing systems.
• Explore new libraries, techniques, and workflows to expand, optimize, or evolve our technical capabilities.
• Be a key contributor to our pod's success when you deliver great solutions, participate in pod events, provide positive, growth-focused guidance on how we each can continue to be engineering successes.

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on billing and rating platforms and optimization.
• 3+ years experience with Python, Ruby, Java or Go; Python and Django experience is a huge plus
• Great experience building apps in a secure and PCI-compliant environment.
• Solid understanding of building streaming systems that produce large quantities of immutable, auditable data at scale that have complex aggregation
• Great experience participating in the design and architecture of a project
• Self-directed and self-motivated individuals comfortable working with diverse teams
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
• Experience with AWS or other cloud services

• Unlimited PTO… no really, we want you to take it!
• Mental Health Breaks - company provided meditation app and a weekly wellness hour
• WFH stipend to help you work your best while being remote
• Countless Medical, Dental and Vision plans … we are an insurtech company after all!
• Equity and 401K
• Generous parental leave