Software Engineer II

Bestow is a vertical technology platform that helps life insurers modernize their products and operations through AI and automation. The Software Engineer II will build and scale Go services for agent quoting, configuration, and application-submission tools, while collaborating across teams, improving system architecture, and supporting software quality and knowledge transfer.

Responsibilities:

• Build and scale Go services powering agent quoting, configuration, application-submission tools used before checkout
• Partner closely w/ App & Checkout teams given tight coupling between surfaces
• Contribute to architectural discussions, bringing ideas and questions even as team's acting-EM situation leaves some direction-setting open
• Resolve partner-specific edge cases as distribution partners and volume scale
• Write unit and integration tests for code you ship; peer review code from others on team
• Use AI coding tools (Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) as default part of daily workflow — expectation, not bonus skill
• Support knowledge transfer to team with high contractor ratio (Howdy), pairing and documenting as you go
• Follow and help improve automation, CI/CD practices across team

Requirements:

• • 3+ years professional backend software development experience
• • Professional experience with Go; comfortable owning services end to end
• • Experience with distributed systems or microservices, and designing APIs (REST, gRPC, OpenAPI, Protocol Buffers)
• • Experience using Docker for local development, and CI/CD as default practice
• • Demonstrated, day-to-day fluency using AI tools (Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, etc.) in real engineering work — able to speak concretely about where they help and where they don't
• • Comfortable contributing to architectural discussions and picking up mentorship moments as they come, even without a formal title
• • Go Backend Craftsmanship: Writes idiomatic, maintainable Go services; understands concurrency, error handling, package structure well enough to keep code healthy as it scales
• • System Design & Architecture: Designs components that hold up under growth, stay maintainable, fit Bestow's existing platform rather than fighting it
• • API Design: Designs clear, versioned APIs (REST/gRPC/OpenAPI) that internal teams and, where relevant, distribution partners can consume without guesswork
• • Testing & Quality Discipline: Writes unit and integration tests as default habit, not afterthought; catches edge cases before they reach production
• • AI-Augmented Engineering: Uses AI tools (Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, etc.) as default part of daily engineering work — for code, tests, debugging, or design — while applying independent technical judgment to output
• • Cross-Team Collaboration: Works effectively across tightly coupled teams and partners, especially App & Checkout
• • Ownership & Bias for Action: Drives own issues to resolution, flags blockers early, helpful given team's current acting-EM gap
• • Debugging & Production Support: Diagnoses and resolves issues in previously delivered features methodically, under real production constraints
• • Communication Clarity: Explains technical tradeoffs in language that fits audience — engineers, PMs, non-technical partners