Senior Backend Engineer

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Sofia, Sofia-grad
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Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Consumer Web • Fintech • Insurance
The Role
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will architect and develop features, optimize performance, write tests, and deploy updates regularly.
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Why us? 

Insurify is one of the America’s fastest-growing MIT FinTech startups and has been recognized as one of Inc. 5,000’s fastest-growing private companies in America of 2023, 2022 and 2021, Forbes Fintech 50 List for 2023, 22, 21, Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startups of 2022 global and Top 100 InsurTech company. We’re a profitable company, that's changing the way millions of people compare, buy and manage insurance with artificial intelligence, technology, and superior product design. We are proud to be the largest online insurance distribution and comparison platform in the USA. 

Our company vision is to be recognized as the preeminent and most trusted digital agent for insurance comparison, purchase, and management.  Our team is critical to achieving our vision and fostering the right culture is essential to our team’s success.


How you will make an impact

  • Work with our product team to architect and develop new features
  • Optimize existing features using modern development techniques to improve speed and reliability
  • Write comprehensive test suites that fortify our codebase
  • Deploy to production often

What you need to succeed

  • 4+ years of experience building back ends applications using a modern web framework (we use Python + Django, Node.js)
  • Experience analyzing code performance to identify optimization opportunities
  • Experience writing unit and integration tests
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL DBs (we use MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB, Redshift) 
  • Fluent spoken and written use of English language

It would be considered a plus:

  • Experience with Apache Airflow or other task workflow systems 
  • Experience with data pipelines
  • Infrastructure as Code and familiarity with AWS 
  • Frontend experience (we use React)

Benefits

  • 25 days annual leave
  • Enhanced private medical, dental and vision insurance plans
  • Yearly wellbeing budget or Multisport card
  • Personal budget for learning and books
  • Employee Assistance Program and other wellbeing perks
  • Office kitchen and fun area with snacks and beverages
  • Regular social events
  • Friendly office culture
  • Hybrid office

We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.

Top Skills

Apache Airflow
AWS
Django
DynamoDB
MySQL
Node.js
NoSQL
Python
React
Redis
Redshift
SQL
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The Company
HQ: Cambridge, MA
250 Employees
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Insurify is one of America’s fastest-growing MIT FinTech startups and has been recognized as one of Inc. 5,000’s fastest-growing private companies in America in 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021, Forbes Fintech 50 List for 2023, 2022, and 2021, Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startups of 2022 global and Top 100 InsurTech company. We’re changing the way millions of people compare, buy and manage insurance with artificial intelligence, technology, and superior product design.

Our company vision is to be recognized as the preeminent and most trusted digital agent for insurance comparison, purchase, and management. Our team is critical to achieving our vision and fostering the right culture is essential to our team’s success.

Why Work With Us

$1.3 Trillion market opportunity
MIT alumni founders
Female-led startup
$130M total funding
Strong leadership team with experience from many successful startups around the world

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