Senior Back End Engineer [Remote-US]

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About Us

Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customer centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend some of the best Silicon Valley talent and cutting-edge thinking with the long-term backing of leading insurer, State Farm.

Learn more about us and our work at quanata.com

Our Team

From data scientists and actuaries to engineers, designers and marketers, we’re a world class team of tech-minded professionals from some of the best companies in Silicon Valley, and around the world. We’ve come together to create the context-based insurance solutions and experiences of the future. We know that the key to our success isn't just about nailing the technology—it’s hiring the talented people who will help us continue to make a quantifiable impact.

We're seeking a senior backend engineer to build and enhance the critical services that power our business. You’ll be developing systems that manage core financial and underwriting operations, coordinating dynamic machine learning models to increase the intelligence of our industry-leading policy management solution, and optimizing our application’s architecture and observability to meet the performance and reliability demands of our customers.

Design and implement client-facing and internal APIs
Orchestrate data flows between backend systems
Create and manage database schemas
Build automated test suites
Lead the design and implementation of substantial product features end-to-end
Evaluate and integrate with third-party services and tools
Help to mentor mid-level and junior engineers on your team

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
5-7 or more years experience in a full stack or backend role
Technical skills

- Professional experience with Go
- Experience designing, developing, debugging, and deploying high performance client/server systems for mission-critical applications
- Comfort working with both relational and non-relational database systems
- Familiarity with a wide variety of messaging systems, with opinions on which to use when
- Comfort working with cloud-based infrastructure providers and modern CI/CD
- Knowledge of security and testing best practices
People skills
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Growth mindset, and the humility to model it for others
- Willingness to take initiative and accountability
- Prior experience as a technical lead or people manager

Nice to Have

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Familiarity with some of the other technologies we use including GraphQL, gRPC, Postgres, Mongo, Snowflake, Kafka, Python, TypeScript, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS
Experience in a financial sector such as insurance, banking, or investing

What We Offer

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✓Benefits: We provide a wide variety of health, wellness and other benefits.These include medical, dental, vision, life insurance and supplemental income plans for you and your dependents, a Headspace app subscription, monthly wellness allowance and a 401(k) Plan with a company match.

✓Work from Home Equipment: Given our virtual environment— in order to set you up for success at home, a one-time payment of $2K will be provided to cover the purchase of in-home office equipment and furniture at your discretion. Also, our teams work with MacBook Pros, which we will deliver to you fully provisioned prior to your first day.

✓Paid Time Off: All employees accrue four weeks of PTO in their first year of employment. New parents receive twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave which may be taken within one year after the birth and/or adoption of a child. The twelve weeks is applicable to both birthing and non-birthing parent.

✓Personal and Professional Development: We’re committed to investing in and helping our people grow personally and professionally. All employees receive up to $5000 each year for professional learning, continuing education and career development. All team members also receive LinkedIn Learning subscriptions and access to multiple different coaching opportunities through BetterUp.

✓Location: We are a remote-first company for most positions so you may work from anywhere you like in the U.S, excluding U.S. territories. For most positions, occasional travel may be requested or encouraged but is not required. Some positions might require travel per the job description provided to the employee. Employees based in the San Francisco Bay Area or in Providence, Rhode Island may commute to one of our local offices as desired.

✓Hours: We maintain core meeting hours from 9AM - 2PM Pacific time for collaborating with team members across all time zones.

Listing Details

Posted: February 17, 2026
First seen: March 26, 2026
Last seen: April 21, 2026

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Quanata is an AI-powered insights platform helping businesses make smarter decisions by enabling them to collect, analyze, and act on data more effectively.

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