Senior FullStack Software Engineer
ABOUT BESTOW
Bestow is the leading digital platform for life insurance. As both a direct-to-consumer destination and an infrastructure provider, Bestow is on a mission to make life insurance accessible to millions of underserved families.
We strive for work-life balance and believe happy employees make for better experiences and happier customers. It’s a model that helped us land on Forbes’ Best Startup Employers 2021 and 2022 lists!
As a Senior FullStack Software Engineer on our Enrollment SDK Team, you will join a platform team that builds and maintains Bestow's new TypeScript library. This library is already powering the next iteration of our direct-to-consumer and partner-facing enrollment clients.
Insurance applications can have multiple question paths, and part of what helps Bestow offer insurance to a broad audience is updating those questions often. This team is taking lessons from our existing efforts to build a library leveraging functional programming patterns to give us flexibility and accelerate our future product launches.
Open to Austin, TX, Dallas, TX or Remote (US) #LI-Remote
ABOUT THE ROLE
- Build and maintain applications using bestow SDK library
- Build tools and frameworks that enable developers to maintain an excellent developer experience.
- Build new features and improve upon existing ones.
- Advocate for product quality, security, and performance improvements that have a particular impact across your team and others.
- Shepherd the definition and improvement of our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
- Drive innovation on the team with a willingness to experiment and boldly confront immense complexity and scope problems.
- Work with Product Management, Design, and other stakeholders to iterate new features.
- Help improve the general experience of our product by improving the standard of the Front-end features.
- Help identify areas of improvement for the codebase and help make it better.
ABOUT YOU
- 5+ years working on server-side development in JavaScript/TypeScript/NodeJS or similar
- 5+ years developing web applications with a modern Javascript framework: React
- Experience writing automated tests (e.g., Jest, Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, React Testing Library, Cypress). We use Ava for our SDK, and Bestow uses Jest and Cypress.
- Nice to have experience with functional programming paradigms. Our SDK uses fp-ts (https://gcanti.github.io/fp-ts/).
- You can communicate complex technical, architecturally concise, and organizational problems and propose comprehensive iterative solutions.
- Nice to have Python experience to interface with our Enrollment API
- Nice to have experience writing technical documentation
- Experience designing and debugging APIs
- Experience with and passion for SCRUM Agile software development processes
TOTAL REWARDS
- Competitive salary, bonus & stock options
- Open PTO plan
- 100% paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Annual bonus based on individual and company performance
- Generous equity grant based on level
- Flexible work-from-home policy and open to remote
We value diversity at Bestow. We hire, recruit, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We understand the importance of creating a safe and comfortable work environment and encourage individualism and authenticity in every member of our team.