[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer REMOTE USA

Position: Senior Backend Engineer

Date Posted: 13 February 2026

Industry: Technology / Software Development / Insurance

Employment Type: Full Time

Experience: At least 4 years of professional backend development experience

Qualification: Estimated Qualification like Bachelor Degree holder in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

Salary: $145,600 – $163,800 USD (Budgeted) | Full Range $145,600 – $218,400 USD

Location: United States REMOTE

Company: Openly

Description:
Openly is on a mission to rebuild insurance from the ground up, creating a better experience for consumers by combining technology, data, and human-centered design. We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join one of our core teams responsible for building and maintaining the backend of Openly’s insurance platform. This role plays a critical part in shaping our systems, APIs, and internal tooling while enhancing the customer experience.

Why Openly:
Openly focuses on providing premium insurance in a simple, transparent, and competitive way. Using modern data and technology, we offer:

• The Price Difference: Customizable, competitive pricing to protect your most valuable assets.
• The Policy Difference: Coverage tailored to individual needs, including standard and optional add-ons.
• The Experience Difference: Efficient claims handling and responsive customer service to ensure a smooth insurance journey.

At Openly, we value collaboration, communication, and work-life balance, and we seek candidates who share our core values:

• Integrity
• Empathy
• Teamwork
• Curiosity
• Urgency

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with internal and external teams to develop core systems and APIs.
• Build internal tooling and services to improve business and engineering processes.
• Implement systemic changes aligning existing systems with architectural goals.
• Integrate with external services for payments, documents, and claims.
• Work with data providers to source real-time information for property and risk analysis.
• Mentor team members and provide subject matter expertise.
• Contribute to architectural and operational decisions, including deployment strategies and technology choices.
• Participate in daily stand-ups, 1:1s, and retrospectives.

Our Stack:

• Backend: Go & PostgreSQL
• Frontend: VueJS, Nuxt, Webpack, Tailwind
• Research/Data Science: R, ArcGIS, Jupyter Notebooks, Python
• Data & Infrastructure: GCP, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Composer/Airflow, Kubernetes, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, CloudSQL, Terraform, GitHub, DataDog, CircleCI
• Remote Tools: Slack, Zoom, Donut

Requirements:

• Minimum 4 years of professional backend development experience.
• Strong experience with Go (code challenge required).
• Proven track record in improving business-critical systems for stability, performance, and scalability.
• Ability to deliver complete systems independently.
• Strong interpersonal skills to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Compensation & Benefits:

• Competitive remote-first salary and equity packages
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Life and disability insurance (voluntary options)
• Paid parental leave (up to 8 weeks, additional leave for birthing parents)
• 401K contribution (3% of gross income, regardless of employee contribution)
• Work-from-home stipend: $1,500
• Professional development fund: $2,000 annually
• Be Well Program: $50/month for wellness
• Paid volunteer service hours
• Employee referral program

Openly is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, offering equal opportunities to all qualified applicants authorized to work in the U.S. We utilize AI-assisted tools for efficiency in our hiring process while maintaining full human oversight.

Featured Benefits: Medical insurance, Vision insurance, Dental insurance, 401(k), Paid maternity leave, Paid paternity leave

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