Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Native, Kubernetes, Go/Java

Koop; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity options

Health and dental package

Flexible time off

Job summary

Koop is seeking an experienced software engineer to own end-to-end development, from design to deployment, with a focus on security compliance and risk management. You will work on AI-native software, microservices, and cloud-native stacks in a fast-growing insurance platform.

The role requires 5+ years of hands-on development in Go or Java, strong experience with Kubernetes and AWS, and a founder mindset. In-person work in the Greater NYC Area is expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing complex software applications.
• Experience with Go or Java, and willingness to learn both.
• Experience with NoSQL databases.
• Experience building microservices in Kubernetes, AWS ECS/EKS/Fargate, or other containers.
• Desire to learn the latest software development practices in real product environments.

Responsibilities

• Design application architectures, make difficult technical decisions with tradeoffs.
• Touch every aspect of software engineering: from ideas to requirements, implementation, deployment and testing.
• Contribute to the team culture, participate in hiring.
• Learn by doing, experiment with newest technologies and stacks.
• Build products at the cutting edge of security compliance and risk management.

Skills

Go

Java

AI-native development

NoSQL

Kubernetes

AWS

ECS/EKS/Fargate

Microservices

Cloud security

Tools

Terraform

Temporal

HashiCorp Vault

Job description

Koop is seeking an experienced software engineer to own end-to-end development, from design to deployment, with a focus on security compliance and risk management. You will work on AI-native software, microservices, and cloud-native stacks in a fast-growing insurance platform.

The role requires 5+ years of hands-on development in Go or Java, strong experience with Kubernetes and AWS, and a founder mindset. In-person work in the Greater NYC Area is expected.