Senior Backend Engineer, Openly
$169.2-179.1k
Plus equity
More information about location
Home insurance platform
Job no longer available
Home insurance platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$169.2-179.1k
Plus equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower independent insurance agents to deliver a modern, efficient, and superior customer experience.
Role
Who you are
- A minimum of 4 years of professional/production experience developing backend web-stack applications
- Professional experience leveraging Go in prior roles. *Please note, part of the interview process includes completing a code challenge in Go
- Sustained track record of creating improvements in business-critical systems around stability, performance, and scalability
- Demonstrated ability to deliver complete systems from start to finish in a reasonable time frame with little or no supervision
- Strong interpersonal skills, such as an ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences
What the job involves
- We are re-envisioning and enhancing every aspect of the customer experience
- Doing this requires a rapidly growing team of exceptional, curious, empathetic people with a wide range of skill sets, spanning technology, data science, product, marketing, sales, service, claims handling, finance, etc
- We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to be a part of one of our core teams building the backend for Openly's insurance platform
- You will play an essential role in designing, building, testing, and maintaining the services and technology that power our insurance offering and customer experiences
- Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop the core systems and create APIs that power our best-in-class user experiences
- Build out our internal tooling and APIs to make business and engineering processes easier, faster, and safer
- Implement systemic changes to align existing systems with current architectural goals
- Integrate with external services to manage payments, documents, and claims
- Integrate with data providers to source real-time information on hundreds of data points, including property characteristics and risk profiles
- Provide subject matter expertise, mentorship, and support to individuals on your team
- Collaborate on architectural discussions with your team
- Contribute to important architectural and operational decisions like microservices vs. monoliths, deployment techniques, technologies, policies, etc
- Participate in daily stand-ups, weekly 1:1's, and biweekly retros
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Openly has responded to a perceived gap in the market: while consumers are increasingly buying home insurance through independent agents, the products those agents can offer have not kept up with what’s possible, resulting in wasted time, wasted money, and outdated risk underwriting.
Openly's homeowner insurance platform sells exclusively through independent agencies. The platform watches and updates more than 19,000 vendor profiles daily across 19 states and 91 different industries, detecting changes to key business information, privacy documentation, terms of service agreements and public records. This increases transparency of the risk between buyers and suppliers, which sets Openly apart from its competitors in the insurtech market.
It has grown in-force premium by more than 500% year over year and has already achieved double-digit new sales market share in the majority of its states. The company is taking huge steps and recently partnered with Mastercard to integrate Mastercard's RiskRecon cyber risk data into its platform so that organizations can better understand their risk profile. Openly has plans to expand its home insurance product to more states and agencies and to enhance its technology and insurance product.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2023
$100m
SERIES D
Jun 2022
$75m
SERIES C
Total funding: $237.7m
Company benefits
- Company equity
- Work from home stipend
- 401k plan
- Vision and dental insurance
- Remote-First
- Health insurance
- Flexible PTO
- Parental leave policy
Company values
- Integrity
- Empathy
- Teamwork
- Curiosity
- Urgency
Company HQ
Columbus, Boston, MA
Articles
Founders
Ty Harris
(CEO)Studied at MIT before working as a Lecturer at MIT and Northeastern. Went on to spend 12 years at Liberty Mutual Insurance. Co-founded Quote Hopper in June 2017 and, after passing this onto an agency to run, co-founded Openly that August.
Matt Wielbut
(CTO)Started their career with almost 8 years at Goldman Sachs before co-founding Recitate and Elements Insurance. Used this experience to co-found Openly with Ty.
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