Senior Full-stack Software Engineer

Kettle is a fast growing Managing General Agency (MGA) specializing in wildfire insurance. They are seeking a Senior Full-stack Software Engineer to architect, build, and maintain core systems across their AWS-based stack while contributing to front-end product development and scaling the engineering infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Improve parts of Kettle's AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, and containerized workloads
• Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent)
• Improve observability, logging, monitoring, deployment reliability, and cost efficiency
• 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)

Requirements:

• 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
• Infrastructure-as-code and reproducible environments
• 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
• Work effectively in small teams and ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Make pragmatic architectural trade-offs balancing speed, reliability, and scalability
• Improve engineering workflows, deployment processes, and overall system reliability
• Identify and proactively address infrastructure or operational bottlenecks before they become critical issues