Senior Backend Engineer II (Remote) - AI-Driven Platform

Openkrill; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Flexible PTO

Remote work

Office in Dallas

Job summary

Bestow is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer II to design, build, and operate IPC services in a remote-friendly environment. You will work across Python, Go, and Java-based stacks, driving reliability and platform-scale for carrier onboarding and product launches.

Join a team that values proactive risk management, strong API design, and AI-assisted development tools in a modern Kubernetes/GCP architecture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend software development experience at senior level.
• Proficiency in Go and Python; Java experience a plus.
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices.
• Relational DBs at scale (PostgreSQL).
• Cloud infra: Kubernetes, Docker, GCP.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to technical design decisions for IPC services balancing speed and maintainability.
• Design, build, and operate backend services using Python + PostgreSQL, Go, Java-based Drools.
• Partner with other teams on integration across the platform.
• Scale platform capabilities for carrier onboardings and product launches.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews and pairing.
• Maintain/improve SLOs and observability; participate in on-call.
• Adopt AI-assisted coding tools in daily workflow.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

Distributed systems

API design

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Docker

GCP

Code review

AI coding tools

Tools

Protobuf/OpenAPI

Job description

Bestow is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer II to design, build, and operate IPC services in a remote-friendly environment. You will work across Python, Go, and Java-based stacks, driving reliability and platform-scale for carrier onboarding and product launches.

Join a team that values proactive risk management, strong API design, and AI-assisted development tools in a modern Kubernetes/GCP architecture.