# Senior Backend Engineer (Go) at Bestow

- Company: Bestow
- What the company does: Bestow is the leading end-to-end life insurance SaaS company partnering with top carriers to modernize and transform the way they do business. Backed by NEA.
- Company website: https://www.bestow.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote, US
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $145K to $171K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-25
- Apply by: 2026-10-09
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bestow/d1364320-6a98-4dbe-8b21-bf6ef52b36e1
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/bestow-senior-backend-engineer-go/

## About the role

Build and scale Go services powering agent quoting, configuration, and application-submission tools used before checkout. Partner closely with the App & Checkout teams given the tight coupling between surfaces.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of professional backend software development experience
- Professional experience with Go, comfortable owning services end to end
- Experience with distributed systems or microservices, and designing APIs (REST, gRPC, OpenAPI, Protocol Buffers)
- Experience using Docker for local development, and CI/CD as a default practice
- Demonstrated, day-to-day fluency using AI tools (Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, etc.) in real engineering work — able to speak concretely about where they help and where they don't
- Comfortable stepping into architectural or mentorship gaps without needing a formal title to do so

Tags: Engineering