Backend Engineer, New Products

evenup; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible paid time off

401(k) plan for US employees

Paid parental leave

Job summary

EvenUp is seeking a Software Engineer in San Francisco to build transformative technology for personal injury cases. This hybrid role involves collaborating with a talented team and shipping production code quickly.

The ideal candidate has 5-10 years of engineering experience, excels in backend and frontend development, and is passionate about mentoring. Benefits include medical insurance, flexible PTO, and a 401(k) plan for US-based employees.

Qualifications

• 5-10+ years of experience with backend or frontend engineering.
• Several years of experience building high-quality software.
• Ability to communicate technical ideas in easy terms.
• Experience owning a project from start to finish.
• Demonstrated success in mentoring teammates.

Responsibilities

• Build impactful technology transforming the injury victim experience.
• Engage in shipping production code within two weeks.
• Work with a world-class team on core software products.
• Learn new technologies and contribute across functions.

Skills

Backend engineering

Frontend engineering

Relational databases

Kubernetes

Communication skills

Mentoring

Tools

Python

Typescript

React

Postgres

Elasticsearch

Job description

EvenUp is on a mission to close the justice gap using technology and AI. We empower personal injury lawyers and victims to get the justice they deserve. Our products enable law firms to secure faster settlements, higher payouts, and better outcomes for victims injured through no fault of their own in vehicle collisions, accidents, natural disasters, and more.

We are one of the fastest-growing vertical SaaS companies in history, and we are just getting started. EvenUp is backed by top VCs, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, SignalFire, and Lightspeed. We are looking to expand our team with talented, driven, and collaborative individuals who seek to have a lasting impact.

In the past year, our engineering and data science team grew from 40 to 100+ team members and we rolled out infrastructure updates, new products, and updates to existing workflows - combining data, ML frontend and backend work. The next 12 months are very exciting for us; we expect the technical team to double as we deliver on a roadmap to handle 10x our current volume and build new products.

Hybrid role with the expectation of working at least 3 days a week from our downtown San Francisco hub.

What you’ll do

• Build impactful technology: You will build first-of-a-kind technology that will transform an analog industry to improve the lives of millions of injury victims that got their lives turned upside down at no fault of their own.
• Have immediate impact in a small and tightly-knit team: be a key part of building the foundational blocks of their software and the team culture. Start shipping production code in less than two weeks!
• Be a core part of our engineering team: Be a key part of building the foundational blocks of EvenUp's software and the team culture. Build and deploy and work on our core software product, whereby you’ll tackle hard problems, explore and deliver solutions while working with key people across the organization.
• Work with a world-class team: Our team has deep expertise in technology, machine learning, law, and finance, combining experiences from careers at Google, Uber, Waymo, Quora, Vimeo, Blizzard, and more.
• Learn new technologies from the best: Our team emphasizes a culture of continual learning and you will have opportunities to work on projects in machine learning, data engineering, back-end, front-end, DevOps.
• Work with our tech-stack: Python, Typescript, React, Postgres, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch.

What we look for

• 5-10+ years of experience with backend or frontend engineering, working with relational databases and/or other database technologies - we’re hiring frontend, backend, and full-stack engineers for this team!
• Have several years of industry experience building high-quality software, shipping production-ready code and infrastructure.
• Ability to communicate technical ideas or issues in easy-to-understand and actionable terms.
• Learn quickly and are seeking opportunities to work cross-functionally (including data engineering & DevOps) and with a diverse group of people.
• Experience owning a project from start to finish and loves to drive a project across the finish line.
• Demonstrated success in mentoring and upleveling teammates.
• Engineering excellence - you’ve helped build what "great" looks like at scale (both product + team culture).
• Kubernetes experience is a plus!

Benefits & Perks

• Choice of medical, dental, and vision insurance plans for you and your family.
• Additional insurance coverage options for life, accident, or critical illness.
• Flexible paid time off, sick leave, short-term and long-term disability.
• 10 US observed holidays, and Canadian statutory holidays by province.
• A home office stipend.
• 401(k) for US-based employees and RRSP for Canada-based employees.
• Paid parental leave.
• A local in-person meet-up program.
• Hubs in San Francisco and Toronto.

Please note the above benefits & perks are for full-time employees.

EvenUp is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity and inclusion in our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.