# Staff Backend Engineer 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: $202K to $238K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bestow/f9be0c3e-1dc6-4bb9-ad55-28e213030b1d
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/bestow-staff-backend-engineer/

## About the role

Own the technical architecture for IPC services, making design decisions that balance speed of delivery with long-term maintainability Design, build, and operate backend services using Python + PostgreSQL, Go, and a Java-based Drools rules engine

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of professional backend software development experience, you've operated at the Staff or Senior level before
- Strong proficiency in Go and Python, Java experience is a plus
- Deep experience with distributed systems, microservices, and API design (Protocol Buffers, OpenAPI)
- Comfortable with PostgreSQL or other relational databases at scale
- Hands-on with cloud infrastructure — Kubernetes, Docker, GCP (or equivalent)
- Proven track record building, deploying, and troubleshooting production services end-to-end

Tags: Engineering