Senior Software Engineer, Platform
Remote
Engineering /
Full Time /
Software Engineers at Pathpoint write, test, document & evolve the code and software systems that deliver value to Pathpoint and our customers. Our stack is Golang, TypeScript, React, and Node, continuously deployed on AWS and continuously tested in CircleCI.
Senior Software Engineers are the technical leaders of their teams, responsible for building the highly leveraged software systems that are multipliers of the team’s efficiency and working closely with other team leaders to advise on planning and set technical direction.
Our teams are small to enable focus, and often employ Agile Development practices to solve problems in a complex real world domain where the requirements may not yet be fully defined, so the solutions need to be resilient to change while being stable and performant.
About Pathpoint
Pathpoint is building the next generation of technology for the $160B Excess and Surplus Lines insurance market. We’re working with the premier carriers and brokerages to build a new trading exchange that turns painful and time consuming back and forth into a seamless digital experience. Pathpoint is backed by top investors and is headquartered in San Francisco.
Pathpoint is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pathpoint considers all qualified applicants in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Platform Engineering To Us Means:
- Building robust, broadly useful services that the application teams can build on, like data access services, and out-of-band processing worker services.
- Independently producing high quality code, picking up features & bugs that can require significant problem solving to land.
- Performing code reviews with the goal of lifting the entire team’s code quality.
- Participating in hiring.
- Building observability into all layers of the stack--frontend, backend, and services.
- Owning robust continuous testing and deployment pipelines that enable rapid development without sacrificing quality or stability.
- Collaborating with the application engineering teams to deliver a platform that is a multiplier, not a blocker, of executing on their goals and delivering value to our customers.
At Pathpoint, Senior Engineers:
- Are responsible for crafting the software systems, frameworks, and architectures that are the foundation of the systems their team builds on top of.
- Advises the team’s Engineering Manager on higher level roadmap timelines & feasibility, as well as insights and recommendations on how to improve hiring pipelines.
- Are often crossing team boundaries to solve problems.
- Mentor more junior engineers.
- Participate in hiring by not just running onsite sessions but also crafting them.
What We Look For:
- 5+ years of experience at other highly functioning software engineering team(s).
- User empathy, an interest in learning about the insurance industry, and pragmatic critical thinking skills.
- An ability to map Pathpoint’s long term roadmap into smaller projects that make progress under potentially high uncertainty.
- Solid experience build distributed web services.
- Experience building distributed system or services layers.
- Golang, SQL (Postgres) and Node experience a big plus.
- Cloud experience a must: We're on AWS, deploy the main application with AWS ECS configured through CloudFormation (with a tool call AWS CDK).
- We also heavily use TypeScript, GraphQL, and React so experience with these are nice to have.
What We Offer:
- 401(k).
- Competitive healthcare and vacation benefits.
- A brilliant and wonderfully supportive team to learn and laugh with.
- A flexible time-off policy.
- Remote first: we’re building a culture spanning the country where teammates don’t just survive, but thrive, and back this up with a $500 home office stipend & $75 / month internet reimbursement and a monthly stipend for food delivery & groceries, and personal wellness.
