# Staff Application Platform Engineer (DX)
**Company:** [Assured](https://scaleengineer.com/companies/assured)
Assured is seeking a Staff Application Platform Engineer to enhance developer productivity and build scalable, secure platform services for their insurance technology solutions. The ideal candidate will lead end-to-end platform engineering projects, driving innovation in claims processing technology with a focus on creating robust, high-performance systems that empower engineering teams.
**Role:** Staff Application Platform Engineer
**Seniority:** Staff
**Locations:** Remote
**Remote:** yes
**Salary:** 210000–240000 USD
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Canonical: https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/assured/staff-application-platform-engineer-dx
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## Responsibilities

- Developer Productivity: Elevate developer productivity by creating tools and abstractions that simplify complex engineering processes and enable teams to work more efficiently.
- Platform Architecture: Design, develop, and optimize the company's platform to ensure security, reliability, and effortless scalability across engineering workflows.
- Performance Optimization: Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks across the technology stack, ensuring high-performance and smooth system operations.
- Security Management: Champion security and reliability initiatives, implementing robust protection mechanisms for sensitive data and system integrity.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate across teams to design and implement engineering best practices that enhance overall organizational technical capabilities.
- End-to-End Project Ownership: Lead projects comprehensively from initial conceptualization through to final deployment, driving quality, speed, and meaningful impact.

## Requirements

### education

- {"name":"Degree Preference","description":"Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline preferred"}

### technical

- {"name":"Programming Languages","description":"Advanced proficiency in TypeScript with strong capabilities in backend engineering"}
- {"name":"Backend Technologies","description":"Extensive experience with Node.js, GraphQL, and server-side development"}
- {"name":"Database Systems","description":"Proven expertise in PostgreSQL and relational database management"}
- {"name":"Cloud Infrastructure","description":"Comprehensive knowledge of AWS cloud services and infrastructure design"}

### experience

- {"name":"Engineering Tenure","description":"Minimum of 8 years in platform or backend engineering with demonstrable expertise"}
- {"name":"Project Leadership","description":"Proven ability to lead complex technical projects independently from architectural design to production deployment"}
- {"name":"System Design","description":"Track record of building secure, reliable, and high-performance platform services"}

## Skills

### required

- {"name":"TypeScript","description":"Advanced development capabilities in TypeScript programming language"}
- {"name":"Node.js","description":"Robust backend development experience with Node.js ecosystem"}
- {"name":"AWS","description":"Comprehensive cloud infrastructure and service design skills"}
- {"name":"System Architecture","description":"Ability to design scalable and secure platform architectures"}

### preferred

- {"name":"GraphQL","description":"Experience with modern API design and implementation using GraphQL"}
- {"name":"PostgreSQL","description":"Advanced database management and optimization skills"}
- {"name":"Microservices","description":"Knowledge of distributed systems and microservices architecture"}

## Tech stack

### tools

- {"name":"AWS","description":"Cloud infrastructure and services platform"}

### others

- {"name":"Microservices","description":"Architectural approach for building scalable platform services"}

### databases

- {"name":"PostgreSQL","description":"Primary relational database management system"}

### languages

- {"name":"TypeScript","description":"Primary programming language for backend and platform development"}
- {"name":"JavaScript","description":"Supporting language for web and server-side development"}

### frameworks

- {"name":"Node.js","description":"Primary backend development runtime environment"}
- {"name":"GraphQL","description":"API query language and runtime for flexible data retrieval"}

## Benefits

### benefits

- {"name":"Healthcare Coverage","description":"Comprehensive platinum medical, dental, and vision insurance plans"}
- {"name":"Life Insurance","description":"Free long-term and short-term disability insurance"}
- {"name":"Paid Time Off","description":"Unlimited PTO with paid holidays, offering maximum flexibility"}
- {"name":"Family Benefits","description":"Inclusive maternity and paternity leave policies"}
- {"name":"Retirement Planning","description":"401(k) with 3% company contribution, even if employee doesn't contribute"}
- {"name":"Remote Work Support","description":"WFH benefits including lunch stipend, monthly phone allowance, and home office perks"}
- {"name":"Tax-Advantaged Accounts","description":"Health FSAs and HSAs for pre-tax medical expense management"}

## Compensation

- **max:** 240000
- **min:** 210000
- **currency:** USD
- **stockOptions:** true

## Interview process

### steps

- {"name":"Initial Screening","description":"Preliminary review of application and resume by recruiting team"}
- {"name":"Technical Phone Screen","description":"Initial technical interview assessing core engineering skills and platform experience"}
- {"name":"Architecture Interview","description":"In-depth discussion of system design, scalability, and platform engineering approaches"}
- {"name":"Coding Challenge","description":"Practical assessment of TypeScript, Node.js, and system design capabilities"}
- {"name":"Final Panel Interview","description":"Comprehensive interview with senior engineering leadership to evaluate cultural fit and strategic thinking"}

## Full description
Assured is on a mission to modernize insurance. Claims processing (i.e. should we pay this claim?), while often overlooked, is the foundation of the entire industry. It’s currently highly manual, involving phone calls, faxes, and gut instinct, costing tens of billions of dollars a year. We can do better.

At Assured, we provide large insurers with the software solutions they need to win in a modern, technology-driven world. From self-service claim-filing software to backend fraud detection, we’re the engine that powers claims processing for some of the largest insurers in the world.

The challenges we face are deep and diverse, from creating digital experiences that provide comfort and clarity to claimants at their most stressed and vulnerable to orchestrating large-scale ML-driven decision-making on billions of dollars of claims payments, life at Assured is dynamic, collaborative, and rewarding.

Join us in shaping the future of developer experience at Assured! We’re looking for a **Staff Application Platform Engineer** who’s passionate about building scalable, secure, and elegant systems that empower teams to move fast with confidence.

## What You’ll Do

🧩 Elevate developer productivity by abstracting common patterns and creating tools that make building delightful.

⚙️ Design, develop, and optimize our platform to be secure, reliable, and effortlessly scalable.

🧠 Diagnose and resolve bottlenecks across the stack to ensure smooth, high-performance systems.

🔒 Champion security and reliability, ensuring sensitive data stays protected at all times.

📈 Continuously improve resilience and efficiency, especially under rapid product growth.

🤝 Collaborate cross-functionally to design and implement best practices that benefit all teams.

🚀 Own projects end-to-end — from ideation to deployment — driving quality, speed, and impact.

🔧 Enhance and expand our platform services, enabling the next generation of Assured products.

## What You Bring

💼 8+ years of experience in platform or backend engineering (or equivalent expertise).

🧰 Deep knowledge of TypeScript, plus experience with Node.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and AWS.

🎯 Proven ability to lead projects independently from architecture to production.

🌐 Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction across teams.

🛡️ A track record of building secure, reliable, high-performance platforms.

❤️ A passion for craftsmanship — clean code, thoughtful design, and collaborative teamwork.

⚖️ Confidence making strategic technical tradeoffs with company-wide implications.

🔍 A growth mindset and ownership mentality, always looking to make systems better.

**Benefits:**

🤑 Competitive Compensation: Competitive salary and equity packages for all employees

🏥 Healthcare Plan: Platinum medical, dental, and vision

🛡️ Free life insurance: Including long-term disability & short-term disability

🏄 Unlimited PTO: Uncapped vacation days & paid holidays

👶 Family Leave: Maternity & paternity

📈 401(k) Contribution: Assured contributes 3% of your income, even if you don't contribute

🏠 WFH Benefits: Lunch on us 2x/week, monthly phone stipend & other home office perks

👪 Health FSAs & HSAs: Pre-tax accounts for out-of-pocket medical expenses

🤝 Team events & Offsites: We're remote, but we regularly get together 

**\*\*We have been made aware of individuals falsely posing as recruiters from Assured Insurance Technologies Inc. Please note that we only contact candidates from official @**[**assured.claims**](http://assured.claims) **email addresses and all interviews are conducted through verified company channels. If you are unsure whether a message is legitimate, please contact us directly at recruiting-ops@assured.claims before sharing any personal information**\*\*

**Our Commitment:**  
_We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation._