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About Us

Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customer centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend some of the best Silicon Valley talent and cutting-edge thinking with the long‑term backing of leading insurer, State Farm. Learn more about us and our work at quanata.com.

Our Team

From data scientists and actuaries to engineers, designers and marketers, we're a world‑class team of tech‑minded professionals from some of the best companies in Silicon Valley, and around the world. We've come together to create the context‑based insurance solutions and experiences of the future. We know that the key to our success isn't just about nailing the technology—it's hiring the talented people who will help us continue to make a quantifiable impact.

Senior Backend Engineer – Role

We're seeking a senior backend engineer to build and enhance the critical services that power our business. You'll be developing systems that manage core financial and underwriting operations, coordinating dynamic machine learning models to increase the intelligence of our industry‑leading policy management solution, and optimizing our application's architecture and observability to meet the performance and reliability demands of our customers.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement client‑facing 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 end‑to‑end
• Evaluate and integrate with third‑party services and tools
• Help to mentor mid‑level and junior engineers on your team

About You

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 5-7 or more years experience in a full stack or backend role
• Technical skills:
  • Professional experience with Go
  • Experience designing, developing, debugging, and deploying high‑performance client/server systems for mission‑critical applications
  • Familiarity with a wide variety of database and messaging systems, with opinions on which to use when
  • Comfort working with cloud‑based infrastructure providers and modern CI/CD
  • Knowledge of security and testing best practices
• People skills:
  • 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

Bonus points

• Familiarity with some of the other technologies we use including GraphQL, gRPC, Postgres, Mongo, Snowflake, Kafka, Python, TypeScript, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS
• Experience in a financial sector such as insurance, banking, or investing

Salary

Salary: $195,000 to $280,000. Please note that the final salary offered will be determined based on the selected candidate's skills, experience, and the internal salary structure at Quanata. Our aim is to offer a competitive and equitable compensation package that reflects the candidate's expertise and contributions to our organization.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life insurance, and supplemental income plans for you and your dependents
• Headspace app subscription
• Monthly wellness allowance
• 401(k) Plan with a company match
• One‑time payment of $2,000 to cover purchase of in‑home office equipment and furniture
• Company‑delivered MacBook Pro, fully provisioned prior to first day
• Four weeks of PTO in first year; twelve weeks of paid parental leave for new parents
• Up to $5,000 annual budget for professional learning, continuing education, and career development; LinkedIn Learning subscription; BetterUp coaching opportunities
• Remote‑first company: work from anywhere in the U.S. (excluding U.S. territories) with occasional travel as requested or encouraged
• Core meeting hours 9 AM – 2 PM Pacific time for collaboration across time zones

Equal Opportunity Employer

Quanata, LLC is an equal opportunity 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 for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. If you are a San Francisco resident, please read the City and County of San Francisco's Fair Chance Ordinance notice: poster2020_0.pdf. 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.