Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Authentic is a company that helps insurance brokers create better insurance products for their clients by providing a technology platform and support. They are seeking a Software Engineer - Platform to design and implement infrastructure for insurance systems, ensuring reliability and performance improvements while collaborating with senior engineers on architectural decisions.

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)
• Iterate on existing platform tooling and services based on feedback from engineering teams
• Collaborate with senior engineers on architectural decisions and technical direction

Skills

• 3-5 years of experience building and maintaining production systems at scale
• Experience building distributed systems in Python or Go
• Strong understanding of modern API development best practices and design
• Familiarity with AWS, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment best practices
• Demonstrated ownership mindset: you clarify requirements, ask great questions, and drive work to completion
• Track record of building reliable systems without sacrificing velocity—you know when to move fast and when to be careful

Benefits

• Equity
• Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid parental leave

Company Overview

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