Golang / Go Job: Senior Golang Engineer

Senior Golang Engineer at Bestow

🇺🇸 United States › Texas › Austin   (Posted Jan 19 2022)

Do they allow remote work?
Remote work is possible, see the description below for more information.

Job description
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 ideate fast, embrace change, and take risks. As a rapidly growing tech startup, we look for the best talent out there and try to stay out of their way. From scaling our business model to expanding our offerings, the day-to-day at Bestow offers endless professional growth opportunities. The people who succeed here look for problems and solutions. They are both passionate about their ideas and open to having their mind changed.

In the end, we value the same things our customers do: family. So 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 the #2 spot on Forbes’ Best Startup Employers 2021 list. Boom!

As a Senior Golang Engineer on the Protect team, you will work closely with the Protect Product Managers and our external partners to develop and support integration solutions to bring our digital life insurance experience to partners. You will also work to collaborate with teams across Bestow to establish roadmaps on features involving our partners. This involves diving into multiple codebases including our Python/Flask Enrollment codebase and various policy services built on event-driven Golang.

ABOUT YOU
You have 4+ years of professional software development experience
Professional experience with Golang (Go)
Professional experience with React and Redux
Experience using Docker for local software development.
An advocate for Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
Experience with distributed systems or microservices

ABOUT THE ROLE
You will be developing core services primarily using Golang and PostgreSQL
We're a startup with a long product roadmap. You will help and accelerate foundational services to scale the output of our product teams.
Resolve issues with previously delivered features
Write unit and integration tests for code you create
Peer review code developed by others on your team
Ensure software is secure, maintainable
Work with designers, product managers, and other engineers
Foster Best Practices. We might be small but we've got big goals. Folks joining the team will establish our software engineering culture. You are someone that strives to build a premier engineering organization.
Encourage automation and continuous improvement.

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

Apply now!