Bestow Life Insurance is looking for a Senior Golang Engineer (Remote)

    ABOUT US

    Bestow is the leading digital platform for life insurance. As both a direct-to-consumer destination and an infrastructure provider, Bestow is on a mission to make life insurance accessible to millions of underserved families…

    We ideate fast, embrace change, and take risks. As a rapidly growing tech startup, we look for the best talent out there and try to stay out of their way. From scaling our business model to expanding our offerings, the day-to-day at Bestow offers endless professional growth opportunities. The people who succeed here look for problems and solutions. They are both passionate about their ideas and open to having their mind changed.

    In the end, we value the same things our customers do: family. So we strive for work-life balance and believe happy employees make for better experiences and happier customers. It’s a model that helped us land the #2 spot on Forbes’ Best Startup Employers 2021 list. Boom!

    As a Senior Golang Engineer on the Protect team, you will work closely with the Protect Product Managers and our external partners to develop and support integration solutions to bring our digital life insurance experience to partners. You will also work to collaborate with teams across Bestow to establish roadmaps on features involving our partners. This involves diving into multiple codebases including our Python/Flask Enrollment codebase and various policy services built on event-driven Golang.

    About You

    • You have 4+ years of professional software development experience
    • Professional experience with Golang (Go)
    • Professional experience with React and Redux
    • Experience using Docker for local software development.
    • An advocate for Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
    • Experience with distributed systems or microservices
    • You excel in an independent work culture
    • You always want to sit next to the person who is smarter than you because you value a culture of mentorship and learning
    • You are egoless and you have a thoughtful approach to adopting new technology
    • You are looking to bring your voice and experience to a mission-driven company in ways that help it to expand its reach

    Total Rewards

    • Competitive salary, bonus & stock options
    • Open PTO plan
    • 100% paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance
    • Annual bonus based on individual and company performance
    • Generous equity grant based on level
    • Flexible work-from-home policy and open to remote

    We value diversity at Bestow. We hire, recruit, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We understand the importance of creating a safe and comfortable work environment and encourage individualism and authenticity in every member of our team.

    Bestow does not sponsor applicants for work visas at this time