Chestnut

Software Engineer (Mid-Level)

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1 year ago
Seattle, WA, USA or San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Build Go services, event-driven workflows, React UIs, and automation layers for the AI-native platform.
  • Collaborate with product and design to ship and iterate on high-impact features.
  • Own work end to end from architecture through deployment.
  • Scale infrastructure including observability, permissions, and developer tooling.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience building and scaling production systems with Go, TypeScript, and React.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals and thoughtful system design skills.
  • Hands-on experience with gRPC, event-driven architecture, and clean, versioned APIs.
  • Fluency with containers and orchestration tools such as Temporal, Dagster, and ArgoCD.
  • Ability to navigate tradeoffs in fast-paced, high-agency environments.
  • Curiosity about AI and motivation to build foundational systems in the insurance industry.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity, with a 10-year exercise window for stock options.
  • Remote-first culture.
  • Team offsites.
  • Take-what-you-need vacation policy.
  • Subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance.

Tech Stack

GogRPCKubernetesPostgreSQLReactSnowflakeTailwind CSSTypeScript
Chestnut

About Chestnut

11-50 employees

Chestnut builds cloud-based software for insurance carriers and distribution partners to manage producers, commissions, and agent engagement. Its platform centralizes producer management and compensation workflows and includes a mobile app for agents, aiming to turn commissions into a controllable revenue lever. Chestnut is privately held and has raised a seed round from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Liquid 2 Ventures, and Detroit Venture Partners.

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