Senior Backend Engineer, AI-Driven Insurance Platform (Remote)

TechTree; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity options

PTO 20 days/year

Global team offsites

Gym stipend

Mobile bill stipend

Continuing education credits

Remote work Europe/US East Coast

Job summary

TechTree is building AI-powered backends for insurers, delivering reliable systems that read, reason, decide, and act within real workflows. You’ll join the Core Backend team to design services, data models, and pipelines that centralize high-value data and enable explainable decisions.

We expect 8+ years of software engineering, a strong craft, proactive communication, ownership, and a passion for experimentation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Hustle and grit - excellent at your craft and relentless in pursuing it.
• Proactive communication - surfacing blockers, asking the right questions, keeping stakeholders in the loop
• Comfort with experimentation - testing ideas, measuring results, iterating quickly on problems no one has solved before
• Strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving
• Experience with serverless technologies and cloud environments
• Relational databases experience, ideally PostgreSQL
• Bonus: experience with LLMs/generative AI, distributed systems

Responsibilities

• Design services, data models, pipelines and evaluation loops for core backend systems.
• Own work end-to-end with minimal oversight on business-critical infrastructure.
• Make data more complete and decisions more transparent through robust systems.
• Build an intelligence layer that enables faster, better, and more explainable decisions.

Skills

Python

System design

Serverless

PostgreSQL

LLMs

Distributed systems

Cloud environments

Asynchronous workflows

Communication

Tools

Lambda

EC2

Job description

TechTree is building AI-powered backends for insurers, delivering reliable systems that read, reason, decide, and act within real workflows. You’ll join the Core Backend team to design services, data models, and pipelines that centralize high-value data and enable explainable decisions.

We expect 8+ years of software engineering, a strong craft, proactive communication, ownership, and a passion for experimentation.