Backend/Data Engineer, Coverage Intelligence

OhioX; Dublin (OH); Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision

Flexible PTO Policy

401(k) with company match

Employee Assistance Program

Parental Leave

Disability and Life Benefits

Job summary

Bold Penguin is hiring a Backend/Data Engineer to build the data foundation and services for coverage intelligence inside the Digital Exchange, powered by DeX ai.

You will own data movement from ingestion to product consumption, ensuring accuracy, traceability, and security while collaborating with AI engineers and domain specialists to shape data and platform architecture as the team grows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in backend or data engineering with production services/pipelines.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.
• Experience with MongoDB and relational databases (PostgreSQL).
• Experience designing APIs and data contracts used by other teams.
• Experience with workflow orchestration (Airflow/Prefect) and batch/event-driven processing.
• Hands-on AWS experience including containers, IaC and observability tooling.
• Experience modeling versioned, effective-dated reference data.
• CI/CD familiarity and strong communication.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate pipelines and data stores behind coverage intelligence.
• Build services and data contracts delivering insights to other teams.
• Ensure results are traceable to source with strong data quality and lineage.
• Develop data infrastructure to measure accuracy and enable improvements with each release.
• Own reliability, performance, and cost of production services.
• Uphold security and privacy standards for sensitive data.
• Collaborate with engineers to integrate coverage data into the platform.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Python

SQL

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

APIs

Data modeling

Airflow

AWS

CI/CD

OpenSearch

ML data pipelines

Observability

Security & privacy

Communication

Tools

Airflow

Prefect

OpenSearch

AWS

Job description

• Location Remote - United States
• Base Pay $104,900.00 - $139,500.00 / Year
• Other Compensation Annual Performance Bonus Eligible
• Job Category Data Engineering, Backend Engineering, AI/ML Infrastructure
• Relocation Expense Covered No
• Employee Type FT Exempt

YOUR ROLE

As a Backend / Data Engineer on the Coverage Intelligence team, you build the data foundation and services that turn coverage intelligence into a dependable production capability inside the Digital Exchange, powered by DeX ai. You own how data moves through the system, from ingestion through to the products that rely on it, and you make sure it is accurate, traceable and secure. You work closely with AI engineers and domain specialists, and help shape the team’s data and platform architecture as it grows.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Design, build and operate the pipelines and data stores behind coverage intelligence.
• Build the services and data contracts that deliver coverage insights to other teams and products.
• Ensure every result can be traced back to its source, with strong data quality and lineage.
• Build the data infrastructure that lets the team measure accuracy and improve it with every release.
• Own the reliability, performance and cost of the team’s production services.
• Uphold security and privacy standards for sensitive policy and customer data.
• Partner with engineers and specialists across teams to integrate coverage data into the wider platform.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements

YOUR LOCATION

This is a fully remote role, with the exception of onboarding and optional in-office events.

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years’ experience in backend or data engineering, building and operating production services and pipelines.
• Strong Python and SQL.
• Experience with MongoDB and relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar).
• Experience designing APIs and data contracts consumed by other teams.
• Experience with workflow orchestration (e.g., Prefect or Airflow) and batch and event-driven processing.
• Hands-on AWS experience, including containers, infrastructure as code and observability tooling.
• Experience modeling versioned, effective-dated reference data.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Works autonomously with minimal direction, sets a clear path through ambiguity, and holds a high bar for quality.
• Thrives on the energy of a start up: comfortable with pace, changing priorities, and building the function while running it.
• Experience supporting machine learning or LLM systems in production, such as data pipelines, evaluation data or model serving (strongly preferred).
• Experience with search stores such as OpenSearch (preferred).
• Experience supporting LLM observability or evaluation tooling (preferred).
• Insurance or insurtech experience, including familiarity with insurance concepts and insurance-specific canonical data models (preferred).

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to sit/stand/walk for prolonged periods of time (up to 8 hours per day), at a desk working on a computer.
• Must be able to use standard office equipment for extended periods of time, including but not limited to, a mouse, keyboard, phone and video conferencing.
• Must be able to travel to the Bold Penguin office in Dublin, Ohio for New Hire Onboarding & Orientation (2 days, 2 nights); travel costs are covered by Bold Penguin.
• Must be able to travel occasionally (up to 10%) for corporate events and team planning sessions.

Summary

Bold Penguin is the premier digital broker for commercial insurance. Their technology expands top-of-funnel demand and increases yield for enterprise partners. Through digital distribution, wholesale capabilities, and AI-driven insights, they transform the lifecycle of both simple and complex risks, from prospecting to placement.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Flexible PTO Policy
• 401(k) with a company match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Parental Leave
• Disability and Life Benefits

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