assured - Staff Backend Engineer
Requirements
• 📅 8+ years of backend or full-stack engineering experience, ideally in SaaS or high-scale distributed systems environments. • 📈 Proven experience designing, scaling, and operating complex backend systems from early-stage growth through maturity. • 🧑🔬 Deep expertise in distributed systems, APIs, data modeling, infrastructure, and backend architecture patterns. • 🤖 Strong proficiency with modern AI engineering workflows and tooling. You actively use AI to improve development speed, problem solving, system understanding, and operational efficiency. • ⚡ Strong execution mindset with the ability to balance rapid iteration against long-term reliability and maintainability. • 🔒 Experience building secure, observable, fault-tolerant systems in production environments. • 💬 Collaborative and pragmatic approach. You work effectively across engineering, product, infrastructure, and data teams. • 🔧 Adaptability and engineering judgment matter more to us than specific frameworks or languages.
Responsibilities
• 🌎 Own major areas of backend architecture, including APIs, distributed systems, data models, infrastructure, and core business logic. • ⚡ Use AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g. Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, ChatGPT, Devin, or similar) as part of your daily workflow to accelerate development, debugging, testing, documentation, and operational efficiency. • 🤖 Identify opportunities to integrate AI into both internal engineering systems and customer-facing platform capabilities. • 👩💻 Design, build, test, deploy, and iterate on production systems end-to-end with a focus on reliability, scalability, and maintainability. • 🏗️ Architect systems capable of supporting increasing scale, complexity, and evolving customer workflows. • 🔍 Define and implement modern testing, observability, and operational practices that improve system resilience and developer velocity. • 🏎️ Build scalable abstractions, internal frameworks, and platform capabilities that enable faster product development across teams. • 🧠 Drive technical direction and contribute to long-term architectural decisions around performance, security, scalability, and platform evolution. • 🤝 Mentor engineers across the organization, sharing best practices and helping raise the technical bar for backend engineering and system design.
Benefits
• 🤑 Competitive Compensation: Competitive salary and equity packages for all employees • 🏥 Healthcare Plan: Platinum medical, dental, and vision • 🛡️ Free life insurance: Including long-term disability & short-term disability • 🏄 Unlimited PTO: Uncapped vacation days & paid holidays • 👶 Family Leave: Maternity & paternity • 📈 401(k) Contribution: Assured contributes 3% of your income, even if you don't contribute • 🏠 WFH Benefits: Lunch on us 2x/week, monthly phone stipend & other home office perks • 👪 Health FSAs & HSAs: Pre-tax accounts for out-of-pocket medical expenses • 🤝 Team events & Offsites: We're remote, but we regularly get together • *We have been made aware of individuals falsely posing as recruiters from Assured Insurance Technologies Inc. Please note that we only contact candidates from official @assured.claims http://assured.claims email addresses and all interviews are conducted through verified company channels. If you are unsure whether a message is legitimate, please contact us directly at [email protected] before sharing any personal information** • Our Commitment:
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