Senior Backend Engineer

3 Months ago • 5 Years + • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

Archipelago is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their growing team to design, develop, and maintain complex data services, focusing on flexibility and developer experience. The responsibilities include building, deploying, and iterating on new features, collaborating with other engineers, taking a lead role in requirements gathering, driving continuous improvement, and mentoring junior engineers. The role aims to support user growth, improve quality, and reduce manual data entry, contributing to the company's mission of transforming the commercial property insurance industry. This role involves developing customer-first user experiences, supporting user growth experiments through prototypes, maintaining and improving quality, and mentoring junior engineers. The key metrics include automating data sources and reducing manual data-fix requests.
Must have:
  • 5+ years of backend development experience for products and enterprise software
  • 2+ years of experience with Golang and other backend languages
  • Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs, versioning, and error handling
  • Experience integrating 3rd party APIs
  • Experience working in cloud-based environments like AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Experience building data-driven services on databases such as Postgres, MySQL, etc.
Good to have:
  • Experience building applications for the insurance industry
  • Containerization experience targeting Docker and Kubernetes
  • Experience with GraphQL
Perks:
  • Benefits offered regardless of career stage

Job Details

Who we are:

Welcome to Archipelago, where we're redefining the landscape of commercial property insurance with our AI-powered data network. We believe in the power of accurate information to drive meaningful business decisions and offer solutions to generate that accurate information as easily and efficiently as possible. By connecting brokers, owners, and insurers, we empower our customers to navigate the complexities of the property insurance and risk management processes with confidence.

Archipelago was founded in 2018 and serves many of the world’s largest property brokers and their clients, representing over 500 of the worlds largest and most dynamic commercial property portfolios to improve their data and better represent their risks. Archipelago has achieved Series B funding from industry-leading investment partners including Scale, Canaan Partners, Ignition Partners, Prologis Ventures, Stone Point Capital, and Zigg Capital.

Join us at Archipelago and be part of a team dedicated to transforming the commercial property insurance industry. We're seeking individuals with a passion for innovation, a commitment to excellence, and a drive to further elevate and empower our customers. 

If you're ready to make a meaningful impact and be part of a dynamic, forward-thinking company, we invite you to explore our job opportunities and join us on our journey to keep data accurate and workflows seamless.

NOTE: Preferred candidates to be located in Noida, India.

Who you are:

Archipelago is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our growing team. We are looking for an experienced backend developer comfortable designing, developing & maintaining complex data services, with a focus on flexibility and developer experience. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a talented, passionate, and mission-driven group. We iterate quickly, ship every week, build for the long term, and are looking for smart, independent engineers who want to ply their trade with like-minded people.

Responsibilities

  • Build, deploy and iterate on new features and capabilities of the Archipelago SaaS API platform stack.
  • Collaborate with other engineers, design, and product to build out new capabilities and designs.
  • Own the quality of your deliverable through good design, implementation and unit testing
  • Take on a lead role in requirements gathering, scoping and planning projects from beginning to end
  • Driving the continuous improvement of our existing codebase by participating in code reviews, refactoring legacy code, and measuring code coverage and performance
  • Guide and mentor junior engineers
  • Ship code to production frequently

Key Outcomes you are responsible for:

  • In collaboration with product initiative owners support Monthly Active User growth through developing and supporting customer first user experiences.
  • Support user growth experiments through developing quick prototypes with product management in production.
  • Maintain and improve quality, performance, architecture, and security of existing functionality.
  • Bring your expertise to mentor and grow not just junior engineers but the whole squad.

Key Metrics & Results to measure your success:

  • Automate 100% of Hub Analytics manual data sources, eliminating manual data entry and dependency on Google Sheets
  • Implement tooling to automate data-fixes, reducing the number of manual data-fix requests by 20%
  • Measure code coverage for Jobs Service pull requests and reduce uncovered lines by 20%

Qualifications: 

  • 5+ years of experience providing backend development to products and enterprise software
  • 2+ years of experience working with Golang and background with other back end languages and tools
  • Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs and well developed practices around, versioning, error handling on remote interfaces
  • Experience with integrating 3rd party APIs
  • Experience working in cloud based environments, e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure.
  • Building data driven services on top of databases such as Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, etc.

Bonus Points: 

  • Experience building applications for the insurance industry.
  • Containerization experience targeting Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with GraphQL

Benefits:

We offer benefits regardless of where you are in your career. We believe that providing our employees with the means to lead healthy balanced lives results in the best possible work performance.

*All benefits are subject to change at management’s discretion. 

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About The Company

Archipelago is an AI technology and data analytics company transforming how commercial property risks are understood, managed, and presented by commercial real estate owners and their risk managers. Using our platform, large buyers of commercial property insurance are connecting, managing, and analyzing detailed, high-quality risk and insurance data on their portfolio exposures and loss history, while communicating and securely sharing this data with insurance brokers and carriers across the market. Our platform enables brokers and insurers to efficiently connect to high-quality data to deliver innovative services and coverage solutions to their customers.

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