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About the Company
Our client is building the AI operating system transforming the global insurance industry. Their platform enables insurers to automate complex underwriting, claims, pricing, and operational workflows using production-grade AI systems that reason, decide, and act inside real business processes.
Backed by leading investors and built by engineers from Facebook, Google, Palantir, Amazon, Uber, Mastercard, and McKinsey, they're redefining how enterprise AI supports critical decision-making at scale.
- Location: Remote (EU), Poland Preferred
- Employment Type: Full-time (B2B Contract for EU Candidates, Polish Candidates have other choices as well.)
- Level: Staff / Mid-Senior Level
- Compensation: $160,000–$190,000 USD + Equity
About the Role
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll design and build the core infrastructure powering intelligent decision-making across millions of insurance workflows. Working on the Core Backend team, you'll develop distributed services, scalable data models, APIs, and backend systems that transform fragmented data into explainable AI-driven decisions.
This is a high-ownership engineering role for someone who enjoys solving difficult backend challenges, building highly reliable systems, and shipping production software with real business impact.
What You'll Do
- Design and build scalable backend services using Python
- Architect distributed systems and high-performance APIs
- Develop data models and processing pipelines for large-scale AI applications
- Build asynchronous workflows and cloud-native backend infrastructure
- Improve system reliability, scalability, and observability
- Design robust PostgreSQL data architectures
- Collaborate closely with AI, Product, and Infrastructure teams
- Participate in technical architecture decisions and engineering best practices
- Continuously improve developer productivity and platform performance
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years of software engineering experience (exceptional 5+ year candidates with Staff-level impact are encouraged to apply)
- Strong professional Python development experience
- Excellent system design, architecture, debugging, and problem-solving skills
- Experience building distributed backend systems
- Hands-on experience with AWS, serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), and cloud-native architectures
- Experience with asynchronous processing and event-driven systems
- Strong PostgreSQL or relational database expertise
- Builder mindset with high ownership and the ability to drive projects independently
- Excellent communication skills and comfort working in a fast-moving engineering environment
- EU-based with existing work authorization
Nice to Have
- LLM or Generative AI experience
- Large-scale distributed systems
- Platform Engineering or SRE background
- AI infrastructure or ML platform experience
- Top-tier product company or big-tech experience
- Competitive programming or strong Computer Science background
What We Offer
- Competitive salary plus meaningful equity
- Fully remote work across EU
- Global engineering off-sites
- Learning and development budget
- Gym and wellness stipend
- Mobile phone allowance
- 20 days paid annual leave
- Opportunity to build AI infrastructure transforming a $7T global industry
- High-performing, collaborative engineering culture with exceptional technical talent
Build the backend systems powering the next generation of enterprise AI and help transform one of the world's largest industries...
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