Senior Backend Engineer II

ABOUT BESTOW:

• Life insurance is one of the world's most important products, and Bestow exists to change how it's built and distributed.
• We are a leading vertical technology platform serving the largest life insurers, unifying the fragmented value chain.
• Backed by Goldman Sachs, Hedosophia, NEA, Valar, and 8VC, we are trusted by major carriers to scale with speed.

ABOUT THE TEAM:

• The IPC Engineering team powers the digital life insurance enrollment experience for Bestow's carrier partners.
• You'll work alongside Product Managers, Underwriters, and external partners to build modular services in Python, Go, and Java.
• The team integrates across Bestow's service landscape via gRPC, REST, and async messaging on Kubernetes in GCP.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Contribute to technical design decisions for IPC services, balancing delivery speed with long-term maintainability.
• Design, build, and operate backend services using Python, PostgreSQL, Go, and Java-based Drools rules engine.
• Partner with other Bestow engineering teams on integration work and help build platform capabilities that scale with our growing partner ecosystem.