# Senior Backend Engineer II - IPC 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: $170K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-17
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bestow/58394129-0a2d-45da-a3d4-01e657f7e2c2
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/bestow-senior-backend-engineer-ii-ipc/

## About the role

Contribute to technical design decisions for IPC services, balancing delivery speed w/ long-term maintainability Design, build, operate backend services using Python + PostgreSQL, Go, Java-based Drools rules engine

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years professional backend software dev experience, at Senior level
- Strong proficiency in Go and Python, Java experience plus
- Solid experience w/ distributed systems, microservices, API design (Protocol Buffers, OpenAPI)
- Comfortable w/ PostgreSQL or other relational DBs at scale
- Hands-on w/ cloud infra — Kubernetes, Docker, GCP (or equivalent)
- Track record building, deploying, troubleshooting production services end-to-end

Tags: Engineering