Summary
Authentic is a company that helps insurance brokers create better insurance products for their clients by providing a technology platform and support. They are seeking a Software Engineer - Platform to design and implement infrastructure for insurance systems, ensuring reliability and performance improvements while collaborating with senior engineers on architectural decisions.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement platform infrastructure to support the next generation of insurance systems, taking ownership from problem definition through delivery
- Identify bottlenecks and build solutions that help the team move faster, balancing first-principles thinking with practical judgment about what matters most
- Own problems end-to-end, thinking through scalability, operability, and ongoing metrics—digging deep to understand root causes and optimize for real-world outcomes
- Implement reliability and performance improvements across the stack (infrastructure, deployment, observability)
- Iterate on existing platform tooling and services based on feedback from engineering teams
- Collaborate with senior engineers on architectural decisions and technical direction
Skills
- 3-5 years of experience building and maintaining production systems at scale
- Experience building distributed systems in Python or Go
- Strong understanding of modern API development best practices and design
- Familiarity with AWS, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment best practices
- Demonstrated ownership mindset: you clarify requirements, ask great questions, and drive work to completion
- Track record of building reliable systems without sacrificing velocity—you know when to move fast and when to be careful
Qualifications
Must Haves
- 3-5 years of experience building and maintaining production systems at scale
- Experience building distributed systems in Python or Go
- Strong understanding of modern API development best practices and design
- Familiarity with AWS, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment best practices
- Demonstrated ownership mindset: you clarify requirements, ask great questions, and drive work to completion
- Track record of building reliable systems without sacrificing velocity—you know when to move fast and when to be careful
Benefits
- Equity
- Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave