Staff Backend Engineer
Company: Assured
Salary: $180,000 - $220,000
Posted on: April 10, 2024
Job Description
Assured is on a mission to modernize insurance. Claims processing (i.e. should
we pay this claim?), while often overlooked, is the foundation of the entire
industry. It’s currently highly manual, involving phone calls, faxes, and gut
instinct—costing tens of billions of dollars a year. We can do better.
At Assured, we provide large insurers the software solutions they need to win
in a modern, technology-driven world. From self-service claim filing software,
to backend fraud detection, we’re the engine that powers claims processing for
some of the largest insurers in the world.
The challenges we face are deep and diverse—from creating digital experiences
that provide comfort and clarity to claimants at their most stressed and
vulnerable, to orchestrating large-scale ML-driven decision making on billions
of dollars of claims payments, life at Assured is dynamic, collaborative, and
rewarding.
We are looking for experienced backend engineers to join our growing team.
**You will...**
🌎 Own large areas of the Assured platform, from business logic to data
modeling to infrastructure
👩💻 Write lots of code: Conceptualize, build, test, and ship new products and
features for our customers
👷 Architect and implement large-scale infrastructure improvements
🔍 Design and utilize new testing mechanisms and procedures
🏎️ Create reliable systems and high-leverage abstractions that enable faster
product velocity
🤝 Lead, mentor, and learn from other engineers on our growing team
**You have...**
📅 Minimum 7 years of relevant work experience preferred
📈 Experience building and scaling high-quality products and codebases from
early stages to maturity
🧑🔬 A strong engineering background and history of designing systems
❌ _Not required_ : Specific technology or programming language background. We
are relatively technology-background agnostic. We believe great engineers are
great engineers, and that the technologies we use will continue to evolve with
the team and challenges we face. In Assured’s codebase today, you’ll find:
[Node.js](http://node.js/) (Typescript), Python, Docker, PostgreSQL, GraphQL
**In your first month at Assured, you may...**
⚙️ Launch a migration to IaC-based infrastructure that will support easy
creation and destruction of unique, isolated environments for each customer
🔌 Implement a new integration with a third-party vendor to correlate traffic
light data with new insurance claims
👾 Design and implement a new anomaly detection system to proactively detect
potential production incidents
🪂 Build reusable test harnesses and then utilize them when developing a new
product feature
**Benefits**
* Competitive salary and equity packages (75%tile)
* Health Care Plan (Platinum Medical, Dental, & Vision)
* Life Insurance (No cost to you)
* Paid Time Off (Uncapped vacation days & paid holidays)
* Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
* 401(k) contribution (Assured contributes 3% of your income even if you don't contribute)
* Health and Dependent Care FSAs (Pre-tax flexible spending accounts for out-of-pocket expenses)
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do
not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex,
gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran
status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with
disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job
application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to
receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to
request accommodation.
Assured focuses on SaaS, Enterprise Software, Machine Learning, and Insurance.
Their company has offices in Palo Alto. They have a small team that's between
11-50 employees.
You can view their website at <https://assured.claims> or find them on
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/assured).