Job Description

Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through contextbased insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customercentered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend the best Silicon Valley talent and cuttingedge thinking with the longterm backing of leading insurer, State Farm. Learn more about us and our work at quanata.com.

Our team ranges from data scientists and actuaries to engineers, designers and marketers. Were a worldclass group of techminded professionals from some of the best companies in Silicon Valley and around the world, united to create the contextbased insurance solutions and experiences of the future. We know that the key to our success isnt just about nailing the technologyits hiring talented people who will help us continue to make a quantifiable impact.

The role

Were seeking a senior backend engineer to build and enhance the critical services that power our business. Youll be developing systems that manage core financial and underwriting operations, coordinating dynamic machine learning models to increase the intelligence of our industryleading policy management solution, and optimizing our applications architecture and observability to meet the performance and reliability demands of our customers.

• Design and implement clientfacing and internal APIs
• Orchestrate data flows between backend systems
• Create and manage database schemas
• Build automated test suites
• Lead the design and implementation of substantial product features endtoend
• Evaluate and integrate with thirdparty services and tools
• Help to mentor midlevel and junior engineers on your team

About you

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
• 57 or more years of experience in a full stack or backend role
• Proficient in Go
• Experience designing, developing, debugging, and deploying highperformance client/server systems for missioncritical applications
• Familiarity with a wide variety of database and messaging systems, with opinions on which to use when
• Comfort working with cloudbased infrastructure providers and modern CI/CD
• Knowledge of security and testing best practices
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Growth mindset, and the humility to model it for others
• Willingness to take initiative and accountability
• Prior experience as a technical lead or people manager
• Familiarity with GraphQL, gRPC, Postgres, Mongo, Snowflake, Kafka, Python, TypeScript, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS
• Experience in a financial sector such as insurance, banking, or investing

Salary: $195,000 to $280,000*

*The final salary offered will be determined based on the candidates skills, experience, and the internal salary structure at Quanata.

• Benefits : Medical, dental, vision, life insurance and supplemental income plans; Headspace app subscription; monthly wellness allowance; 401(k) with company match.
• Work from Home Equipment : Onetime payment of $2,000 to cover inhome office equipment and furniture; MacBook Pros will be delivered fully provisioned.
• Paid Time Off : Four weeks of PTO in the first year; twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave for new parents.
• Personal and Professional Development : Up to $5,000 annually for professional learning; LinkedIn Learning subscriptions; coaching opportunities through BetterUp.
• Location : Remotefirst company; work from anywhere in the U.S. (excluding U.S. territories). Employees in the San Francisco Bay Area or Providence, Rhode Island may commute to local offices as desired. Occasional travel may be requested or encouraged but is not required.
• Hours : Core meeting hours from 9AM to 2PM Pacific Time for collaboration across time zones.

Quanata, LLC is an equalopportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This role is employed by Quanata, LLC which is a separate company in the State Farm family of companies.

If you require a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to your Talent Acquisition Partner for assistance.

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