Staff Backend Engineer

Who we are:

Welcome to Archipelago, where we're redefining the landscape of commercial property insurance with our AI-powered data network. We believe in the power of accurate information to drive meaningful business decisions and offer solutions to generate that accurate information as easily and efficiently as possible. By connecting brokers, owners, and insurers, we empower our customers to navigate the complexities of the property insurance and risk management processes with confidence.

Archipelago was founded in 2018 and serves many of the world’s largest property brokers and their clients, representing over 500 of the worlds largest and most dynamic commercial property portfolios to improve their data and better represent their risks. Archipelago has achieved Series B funding from industry-leading investment partners including Scale, Canaan Partners, Ignition Partners, Prologis Ventures, Stone Point Capital, and Zigg Capital.

Join us at Archipelago and be part of a team dedicated to transforming the commercial property insurance industry. We're seeking individuals with a passion for innovation, a commitment to excellence, and a drive to further elevate and empower our customers. 

If you're ready to make a meaningful impact and be part of a dynamic, forward-thinking company, we invite you to explore our job opportunities and join us on our journey to keep data accurate and workflows seamless.

Who you are:

Archipelago is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to join our growing team. We are looking for an experienced backend developer comfortable delving into code as well as leading initiative projects from requirements to support in production.  You should be comfortable pairing with product management, design, and communicating with customers. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a talented, passionate, and mission-driven group. We iterate quickly, ship every 2 weeks, build for the long term, and are looking for smart, independent engineers who want to ply their trade with like-minded people.

NOTE: Candidates to be located in San Francisco, CA or New York, NY metro areas only as we are looking to build co-located clusters of engineers that can meet in an office for collaboration and design.

Responsibilities: 

• Design, build, deploy, and iterate on new features and capabilities of the Archipelago SaaS API platform stack.
• Collaborate with product management, customer success, and others to successfully lead and execute projects either individually or in collaboration with more junior engineers.
• Build fast but design for the future through architecting efficient and reusable components.
• Own the quality of your deliverable through good design, implementation and unit testing.
• Ship code to production frequently.
• Work independently as part of a distributed team.
• Great communication and collaboration skills.
• Be our go-to person for solving major technical / customer issues as they pertain to our technology stack

Qualifications: 

• Bachelors in Computer Science or related field and 10+ years directly related experience required
• 2+ years of experience working with Golang and background with other back end languages and tools 
• Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs and well developed practices around, versioning, error handling on remote interfaces 
• Experience with integrating 3rd party APIs 
• Experience working in cloud based environments, e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure. 
• Building data driven services on top of databases such as Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, etc. 

Bonus Points:

• Experience building applications for the insurance industry.
• Containerization experience targeting Docker and Kubernetes.

Benefits:

We offer benefits regardless of where you are in your career. We believe that providing our employees with the means to lead healthy balanced lives results in the best possible work performance.

• Company Equity Program
• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• Flexible Time Off
• Mental Health programs
• Remote office reimbursement

All benefits are subject to change at management’s discretion. 

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity.  All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age (40 and over), race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, religion, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable state or local law.