Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

bestow; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Flexible PTO and parental leave

100% premiums for medical, dental, and

Lifestyle stipend for wellbeing

Remote work options with Dallas office

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Job summary

Bestow is seeking a senior backend engineer to build and scale Go services powering agent quoting, configuration, and application submission tools before checkout. You will partner with the App & Checkout teams to ensure tight surface integration and take on architectural leadership responsibilities.

The role emphasizes hands-on ownership, robust API design, and daily use of AI coding tools to improve engineering outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional backend software development experience.
• Professional Go experience, owning services end to end.
• Experience with distributed systems or microservices and API design (REST, gRPC, OpenAPI, Protobuf).
• Proficient with Docker for local development and with CI/CD as a default practice.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale Go services powering agent quoting, configuration, and application-submission tools used before checkout.
• Partner closely with the App & Checkout teams given the tight coupling between surfaces.
• Take on architectural-leadership work, proposing direction beyond just execution.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

API design

CI/CD practices

Mentorship/architecture

Tools

Docker

OpenAPI/Protobuf

gRPC

CI/CD tooling

AI coding tools (Copilot/C Claude Code/Cursor)

Job description

ABOUT BESTOW

Life insurance is one of the world's most important products. It's also one of the hardest to build, distribute, and modernize. Bestow exists to change that.

Bestow is a leading vertical technology platform serving some of the largest and most innovative life insurers. Our platform unifies the fragmented, legacy value chain, enabling carriers to launch products in weeks instead of years. Carriers choose us to scale and operate at unprecedented speed, powered by AI and automation.

Bestow isn't selling policies. We're building the infrastructure that helps an entire industry move faster, reach more people, and deliver on its promise.

Backed by leading investors (Goldman Sachs, Hedosophia, NEA, Valar, 8VC) and trusted by major carriers, Bestow is powered by a team that moves with precision, purpose, and heart. If you want to help reimagine a centuries-old industry with lasting impact, join us.

Bestow offers flexible remote/hybrid work, meaningful benefits, equity, and substantial growth opportunities.

Bestow uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit E-Verify.gov .

About the Team - Pre-Sales Tools

Pre-Sales Tools team powers the tools and experiences that let insurance agents and distribution partners quote, configure, and submit applications before checkout. It's Bestow's B2B front door - if agents struggle here, they send leads elsewhere. This team is directly upstream of revenue. Every tool improvement means faster, more accurate agent submissions and more policies issued. Leadership sees this team's output in sales metrics weekly.

What You'll Do

Build and scale Go services powering agent quoting, configuration, and application-submission tools used before checkout.

Partner closely with the App & Checkout teams given the tight coupling between surfaces.

Take on architectural-leadership work that the team's acting-EM situation has left open - proposing direction, not just executing it.

Resolve partner-specific edge cases as distribution partners and volume scale.

Write unit and integration tests for the code you ship; peer review code from others on the team.

Use AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) as a default part of your daily workflow - this is an expectation, not a bonus skill.

Encourage automation, CI/CD, and continuous improvement across the team.

Who You Are

5+ years of professional backend software development experience.

Professional experience with Go; comfortable owning services end to end.

Experience with distributed systems or microservices, and designing APIs (REST, gRPC, OpenAPI, Protocol Buffers).

Experience using Docker for local development, and CI/CD as a default practice.

Demonstrated, day-to-day fluency using AI tools (Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, etc.) in real engineering work - able to speak concretely about where they help and where they don't.

Comfortable stepping into architectural or mentorship gaps without needing a formal title to do so.

TOTAL REWARDS

At Bestow, we're proud to be awarded for our team members, innovative products, and culture.

Our standard benefits include:

• Competitive salary and equity based on role
• Policies and managers that support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave programs
• 100% paid-premium option for medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Lifestyle stipend to support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
• Flexible work-from-home policy and open to remote
• Remote and WFH options, as well as a beautiful, state-of-the-art office in Dallas' Deep Ellum, for those who prefer an office setting
• Employee-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives

Recent Employer Awards include:

• Best Place for Working Parents 2023 + 2024 + 2025
• Great Place to Work Certified, 2022 + 2023 + 2024 + 2025
• Built In Best Places to Work, 2022 + 2023 + 2025
• Fortune's Best Workplaces in Texas 2022 + 2023
• Fortune's Best Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance 2022 + 2023 + 2024

We value diversity at Bestow. The company will hire, recruit, and promote regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We understand the importance of creating a safe and comfortable work environment and encourage individualism and authenticity in every team member.

Thanks for considering a job at Bestow!