Senior Backend Engineer, Napo Pet Insurance

• Python - you have more than 5 years of commercial Python experience building large customer-facing backend applications with the use, and not limited to, FastAPI, Flask, Django, etc.
• Understand the technical challenges of building large customer-facing applications in fast paced environments
• Experience with building scalable and robust micro-services with good observability
• Experience to build robust and resilient backend services with Message Queue
• Use infrastructure as code with AWS, Google or a similar cloud provider - we use GCP and terraform
• You’re familiar with the notion of deploying quickly and often, with different layers of testing and rolling features out gradually - using modern deployment pipelines to do so
• You work well in a team, as well as independently, and have a willingness to learn and grow
• You understand why good pre implementation design is important before diving into code
• You’re able to communicate efficiently across different functional departments
• You excel at taking ownership of projects, working in multidisciplinary teams on impactful work
• You’re able to adapt and learn quickly. We’re still an early startup and as such we are still finding the best processes that suit us. Things might change!

Desirable

• As part of our Insurance and Health engineering squad, you will help the squad to improve product transparency, automate customer change requests and streamline claim processes, etc
• You will also have ownership of and be responsible for enhancing various internal tools utilised by our customer support teams and claim teams
• You will also work closely with other backend engineers and PMs to define and execute the backend roadmap, guide the team, and ensure high-quality engineering that balance both product and technical needs