Key skills
GoAPI designDatabase managementCloud infrastructureCI/CDMessaging systemsSecurity best practicesTesting best practicesFinancial sector experienceTechnical lead experienceCommunication skillsGrowth mindsetInitiativeCollaboration skillsTypeScriptPythonSnowflakeKafkaGraphQLgRPCAWSKubernetesDockerPostgresCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. The senior backend engineer will be responsible for developing systems that manage core financial and underwriting operations while optimizing application architecture to meet performance demands.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement client-facing and internal APIs
- Orchestrate data flows between backend systems
- Create and manage database schemas
- Build automated test suites
- Lead the design and implementation of substantial product features end-to-end
- Evaluate and integrate with third-party services and tools
- Help to mentor mid-level and junior engineers on your team
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 5-7 or more years experience in a full stack or backend role
- Professional experience with Go
- Experience designing, developing, debugging, and deploying high performance client/server systems for mission-critical applications
- Comfort working with both relational and non-relational database systems
- Familiarity with a wide variety of messaging systems, with opinions on which to use when
- Comfort working with cloud-based infrastructure providers and modern CI/CD
- Knowledge of security and testing best practices
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Growth mindset, and the humility to model it for others
- Willingness to take initiative and accountability
- Prior experience as a technical lead or people manager
- Familiarity with some of the other technologies we use including GraphQL, gRPC, Postgres, Mongo, Snowflake, Kafka, Python, TypeScript, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS
- Experience in a financial sector such as insurance, banking, or investing