Senior Backend Engineer

Who we are:

Welcome to Archipelago, where we're redefining the landscape of commercial property and casualty insurance with the most powerful AI Agent that helps drive meaningful business decisions and value for their clients as easily and efficiently as possible. By equipping brokers with the Agent, Hub, and Platform we empower our customers to navigate the complexities of property and casualty insurance with confidence and control.

Archipelago was founded in 2018 and serves many of the world’s largest commercial P&C brokers and their clients, representing over 500 of the world's largest and most dynamic 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 enabling commercial property and casualty insurance brokers with AI agents. We seek 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 Senior Backend Engineer to join our growing team. We are looking for an experienced backend developer who is comfortable designing, developing, and maintaining complex data services, with a focus on flexibility and developer experience. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a talented, passionate, and mission-driven group. We iterate quickly, ship every week, build for the long term, and are looking for smart, independent engineers who want to play their trade with like-minded people.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy and iterate on new features and capabilities of the Archipelago SaaS API platform stack and Data pipeline.
• Collaborate with other engineers, design, and product managers to build out new capabilities and designs.
• Own the quality of your deliverable through good design, implementation along with unit/integration testing
• Take on a lead role in requirements gathering, scoping and planning projects from beginning to end
• Driving the continuous improvement of our existing codebase by participating in code reviews, refactoring legacy code, and measuring code coverage and performance
• Guide and mentor junior engineers
• Ship code to production frequently

What Success looks like in 12 months:

• In collaboration with product initiative owners support Monthly Active User growth through developing and supporting customer first user experiences.
• Support user growth experiments through developing quick prototypes with product management in production.
• Maintain and improve quality, performance, architecture, and security of existing functionality.
• Bring your expertise to mentor and grow not just junior engineers but the whole squad.

Qualifications:

• 4-7 years of experience providing backend development to products and enterprise software using Python, FastApi, Django, Flask, SqlAlchemy, Pandas, Numpy, Docker, Airflow or similar orchestration tool, Kafka/Sqs
• Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs and well-developed practices around, versioning, error handling on remote interfaces
• Experience with integrating 3rd party APIs
• Experience working on AWS
• Building data driven services on top of databases such as Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, etc.

Bonus Points:

• Experience building applications for the insurance industry
• Experience with GraphQL

Benefits:

We offer excellent benefits regardless of where you are in your career. Providing our employees the means to lead healthy, balanced lives results in the best possible work performance.

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