Authentic
Software Engineer - Platform
New York, New York, United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 76 days ago
PythonGoDistributed SystemsAWSAPI DevelopmentUnderwriting
About the role
- Think of us as the operating system that powers these specialized insurance offerings.
- For brokers, this means they can offer unique products their competitors don't have, earn more money, and spend less time on paperwork and administrative tasks.
- Brokers bring the data and distribution.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement platform infrastructure to support the next generation of insurance systems, taking ownership from problem definition through delivery
- Identify bottlenecks and build solutions that help the team move faster, balancing first-principles thinking with practical judgment about what matters most
- Own problems end-to-end, thinking through scalability, operability, and ongoing metrics-digging deep to understand root causes and optimize for real-world outcomes
- Implement reliability and performance improvements across the stack (infrastructure, deployment, observability)
- Collaborate with senior engineers on architectural decisions and technical direction
- Experience building distributed systems in Python or Go
- Demonstrated ownership mindset: you clarify requirements, ask great questions, and drive work to completion
- Authentic builds the infrastructure that program insurance runs on.
- We partner with leading brokerages to design and manage custom insurance programs, backed by A and A- rated carriers operating nationwide.
- We bring everything else: the technology, the capacity, and the underwriting expertise to stand up specialized programs at speed and build them to last.
Requirements
- 3-5 years of experience building and maintaining production systems at scale
- Strong understanding of modern API development best practices and design
Compensation
- Competitive salary, equity, and role trajectory
Benefits
- Competitive salary, equity, and role trajectory
- Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family
- Paid parental leave
- Our (FTE) benefits
- Authentic is committed to building an inclusive working environment regardless of gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, race, education, age, or other personal characteristics.
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