Senior Backend Engineer, Openly
$145.6-218.4k
Home insurance platform
Open for applications
Home insurance platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$145.6-218.4k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower independent insurance agents to deliver a modern, efficient, and superior customer experience.
Role
Who you are
- At least 4 years of professional/production experience developing backend web-stack applications
- Professional experience leveraging Go in prior roles. Please note, part of the interview process includes completing a code challenge in Go
- Sustained track record of creating improvements in business-critical systems around stability, performance, and scalability
- Demonstrated ability to deliver complete systems from start to finish in a reasonable time frame with little or no supervision
- Strong interpersonal skills, such as an ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, and those authorized to work in the U.S. for any employer and currently residing in the US will be considered
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to be a part of one of our core teams building the backend for Openly's insurance platform
- You will play an essential role in designing, building, testing, and maintaining the services and technology that power our insurance offering and customer experiences
- Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop the core systems and create APIs that power our best-in-class user experiences
- Build out our internal tooling and APIs to make business and engineering processes easier, faster, and safer
- Implement systemic changes to align existing systems with current architectural goals
- Integrate with external services to manage payments, documents, and claims
- Integrate with data providers to source real-time information on hundreds of data points, including property characteristics and risk profiles
- Provide subject matter expertise, mentorship, and support to individuals on your team
- Collaborate on architectural discussions with your team
- Contribute to important architectural and operational decisions like microservices vs. monoliths, deployment techniques, technologies, policies, etc
- Participate in daily stand-ups, weekly 1:1's, and biweekly retros
- Our stack:
- Backend: Go & Postgresql
- Frontend: Browser-based, VueJS, Webpack, Nuxt &, Tailwind
- Research/Data Science: R, ArcGIS, Jupyter Notebooks, & Python
- Data: GCP GCS, BigQuery, Composer/Airflow, Cloud Functions, Postgres, SQL, Python, Go, Aiven Debezium and Kafka, Fivetran
- Infrastructure: Google Cloud, specifically Cloud Run, Kubernetes, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, and CloudSQL, managed with Terraform. We use GitHub for code hosting, DataDog for monitoring, and CircleCI for running our CI/CD pipelines
- Remote work tools: Slack, Zoom, Donut
Our take
Openly has responded to a perceived gap in the market: while consumers are increasingly buying home insurance through independent agents, the products those agents can offer have not kept up with what’s possible, resulting in wasted time, wasted money, and outdated risk underwriting.
Openly's homeowner insurance platform sells exclusively through independent agencies. The platform watches and updates more than 19,000 vendor profiles daily across 19 states and 91 different industries, detecting changes to key business information, privacy documentation, terms of service agreements and public records. This increases transparency of the risk between buyers and suppliers, which sets Openly apart from its competitors in the insurtech market.
It has grown in-force premium by more than 500% year over year and has already achieved double-digit new sales market share in the majority of its states. The company is taking huge steps and has even partnered with Mastercard to integrate Mastercard's RiskRecon cyber risk data into its platform so that organizations can better understand their risk profile. It now has plans to expand its home insurance product to more states and agencies and to enhance its technology and insurance product.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2025
$123m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Sep 2023
$100m
SERIES D
Total funding: $360.7m
Company benefits
- Company equity
- Remote-First Culture: With employees in 40 states and counting, we promoted #remotelife long before it was adopted by other companies
- WFH Setup: Day 1, you'll receive a new laptop, a $1,500 allowance to spend on setting up your home workplace, and a monthly internet stipend
- Real Work-Life Balance: Ensuring you can spend valuable time with friends and family is a priority. We offer flexible PTO and a generous parental leave policy
- 401k Company Contribution: We love working here, but who wants to work forever? Take advantage of our 401K plan and generous company contribution
- Health and Wellness: Your well-being comes first. We offer a variety of plans to suit your needs, ranging from the basics to supplemental coverages
Company HQ
Columbus, Boston, MA
Leadership
Ty Harris
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied at MIT before working as a Lecturer at MIT and Northeastern. Went on to spend 12 years at Liberty Mutual Insurance. Co-founded Quote Hopper in June 2017 and, after passing this onto an agency to run, co-founded Openly that August.
Matt Wielbut
(Co-Founder & CTO)Began their career with almost 8 years at Goldman Sachs before co-founding Recitate and Elements Insurance. Used this experience to co-found Openly with Ty.
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