5 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$210k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own major areas of backend architecture, including APIs, distributed systems, data models, infrastructure, and core business logic
- Design, build, test, deploy, and iterate on reliable, scalable, and maintainable production systems
- Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate development, debugging, testing, documentation, and operational efficiency
- Identify opportunities to integrate AI into internal engineering systems and customer-facing platform capabilities
- Architect systems that support increasing scale, complexity, and evolving customer workflows
- Define and implement testing, observability, and operational practices that improve resilience and developer velocity
- Build scalable abstractions, internal frameworks, and platform capabilities for faster product development
- Drive technical direction and long-term architectural decisions around performance, security, scalability, and platform evolution
- Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar for backend engineering and system design
Requirements
- 8+ years of backend or full-stack engineering experience, ideally in SaaS or high-scale distributed systems environments
- Proven experience designing, scaling, and operating complex backend systems from early-stage growth through maturity
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, APIs, data modeling, infrastructure, and backend architecture patterns
- Strong proficiency with modern AI engineering workflows and tooling
- Experience building secure, observable, and fault-tolerant production systems
- Ability to balance rapid iteration with long-term reliability and maintainability
- Collaborative and pragmatic approach across engineering, product, infrastructure, and data teams
- Adaptability and sound engineering judgment; specific frameworks or languages are not required
Benefits
- Platinum medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Free life insurance with long-term and short-term disability coverage
- Unlimited PTO and paid holidays
- Maternity and paternity leave
- 401(k) contribution of 3% of income regardless of employee contribution
- Remote work arrangement with lunch provided twice weekly, a monthly phone stipend, and home-office perks
- Health FSAs and HSAs
- Team events and offsites
About Assured
Assured builds an AI-driven claims intelligence platform used by insurers to ingest, evaluate, and process claims. Its products include self-service claim filing, data enrichment, fraud detection, and ML-guided decisioning, delivered as enterprise software to large carriers. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Palo Alto, the privately held company focuses on improving insurers’ claims operations and analytics.