Senior Back End Engineer [Remote-US]

About Us

Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customer centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend some of the best Silicon Valley talent and cutting-edge thinking with the long-term backing of leading insurer, State Farm.

Our Team

Quanata, LLC is an insurance technology innovation company that engineers advanced risk prediction and prevention solutions, develops risk-focused acquisition capabilities, and builds/supports a full-stack, flexible, digital & increasingly AI-native insurance platform. This helps our primary clients, State Farm and HiRoad Assurance Company, adapt to evolving market needs. Quanata, LLC is wholly owned and funded by State Farm.

The role

We're seeking a senior backend engineer to build and enhance the critical services that power our business. You’ll be developing systems that manage core financial and underwriting operations, coordinating dynamic machine learning models to increase the intelligence of our industry-leading policy management solution, and optimizing our application’s architecture and observability to meet the performance and reliability demands of our customers.

Your day-to-day

• 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

About you

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 5-7 or more years experience in a full stack or backend role
• Technical skills
  • 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
• People skills
  • 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

Bonus points

• 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