# Staff Backend Engineer
**Company:** [Assured](https://scaleengineer.com/companies/assured)
Assured is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to drive the technical foundation of their insurance claims processing SaaS platform. The role focuses on designing high-performance, scalable backend systems with a strong emphasis on AI-assisted engineering and innovative technology solutions for modernizing insurance claims processing.
**Role:** Backend Engineer
**Seniority:** Staff
**Locations:** Remote
**Remote:** yes
**Salary:** 210000–240000 USD
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## Responsibilities

- System Architecture: Own major areas of backend architecture including APIs, distributed systems, data models, and infrastructure
- AI Integration: Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate development, debugging, and operational efficiency
- Technical Leadership: Drive technical direction and contribute to long-term architectural decisions
- Platform Development: Build scalable abstractions, internal frameworks, and platform capabilities
- Mentorship: Guide and mentor engineers across the organization, sharing best practices

## Requirements

### education

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

### technical

- {"name":"System Design","description":"Ability to architect complex, scalable backend systems"}
- {"name":"Performance Optimization","description":"Experience in creating high-performance, efficient code"}
- {"name":"Security Implementation","description":"Strong understanding of secure system design principles"}

### experience

- {"name":"Backend Engineering","description":"8+ years of backend or full-stack engineering experience"}
- {"name":"Distributed Systems","description":"Proven track record in designing and scaling complex backend systems"}
- {"name":"Production Environment","description":"Extensive experience in building and maintaining production-grade software"}

## Skills

### required

- {"name":"Distributed Systems","description":"Deep expertise in designing and scaling complex backend systems"}
- {"name":"System Architecture","description":"Ability to design scalable and reliable backend infrastructure"}
- {"name":"AI Engineering Workflows","description":"Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools and methodologies"}
- {"name":"Backend Development","description":"Comprehensive experience in building production-grade backend services"}

### preferred

- {"name":"SaaS Experience","description":"Background in high-scale SaaS platform development"}
- {"name":"AI Integration","description":"Experience integrating AI capabilities into engineering systems"}
- {"name":"Mentorship","description":"Demonstrated ability to guide and elevate engineering team capabilities"}

## Tech stack

### tools

- {"name":"Kubernetes","description":"Container orchestration"}
- {"name":"Docker","description":"Containerization"}
- {"name":"GitHub","description":"Version control and collaboration"}
- {"name":"GitHub Actions","description":"CI/CD pipeline"}

### others

- {"name":"AI Development Tools","description":"Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT"}
- {"name":"Observability","description":"Monitoring and logging tools"}

### databases

- {"name":"PostgreSQL","description":"Likely primary relational database"}
- {"name":"MongoDB","description":"Potential document database for flexible data models"}

### languages

- {"name":"Python","description":"Likely primary backend language"}
- {"name":"Go","description":"Potential backend systems language"}

### frameworks

- {"name":"Microservices","description":"Distributed system architecture approach"}
- {"name":"REST","description":"API design and implementation"}

## Benefits

### benefits

- {"name":"Healthcare","description":"Platinum medical, dental, and vision coverage"}
- {"name":"Equity","description":"Competitive salary with stock option package"}
- {"name":"Retirement","description":"401(k) with 3% company contribution"}
- {"name":"Time Off","description":"Unlimited PTO with paid holidays"}
- {"name":"Work Flexibility","description":"Fully remote work arrangement with home office benefits"}

## Compensation

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

## Interview process

### steps

- {"name":"Initial Screening","description":"Phone or video call with recruiting team to discuss background and experience"}
- {"name":"Technical Assessment","description":"Comprehensive coding challenge and system design evaluation"}
- {"name":"Technical Interviews","description":"Multiple rounds of in-depth technical interviews with senior engineering team members"}
- {"name":"Leadership Interview","description":"Discussion of architectural vision, mentorship approach, and strategic thinking"}
- {"name":"Final Recommendation","description":"Team consensus and final decision by hiring managers"}

## 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.

We’re looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to help define and scale the core systems powering our rapidly growing B2B SaaS platform. This is a deeply technical role focused on building reliable, high-performance infrastructure and backend services, while embracing AI-assisted engineering as a core part of how modern software gets built.

You’ll lead the design of critical systems across APIs, distributed services, data architecture, and platform infrastructure. You’ll also help evolve how our engineering organization operates by leveraging AI tooling to accelerate development, improve reliability, automate workflows, and increase engineering velocity at scale.

This role is ideal for someone who combines strong backend and systems expertise with product thinking, operational excellence, and a modern AI-native approach to engineering.

## What You’ll Do...

🌎 Own major areas of backend architecture, including APIs, distributed systems, data models, infrastructure, and core business logic.

⚡ Use AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g. Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, ChatGPT, Devin, or similar) as part of your daily workflow to accelerate development, debugging, testing, documentation, and operational efficiency.

🤖 Identify opportunities to integrate AI into both internal engineering systems and customer-facing platform capabilities.

👩‍💻 Design, build, test, deploy, and iterate on production systems end-to-end with a focus on reliability, scalability, and maintainability.

🏗️ Architect systems capable of supporting increasing scale, complexity, and evolving customer workflows.

🔍 Define and implement modern testing, observability, and operational practices that improve system resilience and developer velocity.

🏎️ Build scalable abstractions, internal frameworks, and platform capabilities that enable faster product development across teams.

🧠 Drive technical direction and contribute to long-term architectural decisions around performance, security, scalability, and platform evolution.

🤝 Mentor engineers across the organization, sharing best practices and helping raise the technical bar for backend engineering and system design.

## What You Bring...

📅 8+ years of backend or full-stack engineering experience, ideally in SaaS or high-scale distributed systems environments.

📈 Proven experience designing, scaling, and operating complex backend systems from early-stage growth through maturity.

🧑‍🔬 Deep expertise in distributed systems, APIs, data modeling, infrastructure, and backend architecture patterns.

🤖 Strong proficiency with modern AI engineering workflows and tooling. You actively use AI to improve development speed, problem solving, system understanding, and operational efficiency.

⚡ Strong execution mindset with the ability to balance rapid iteration against long-term reliability and maintainability.

🔒 Experience building secure, observable, fault-tolerant systems in production environments.

💬 Collaborative and pragmatic approach. You work effectively across engineering, product, infrastructure, and data teams.

🔧 Adaptability and engineering judgment matter more to us than specific frameworks or languages.

## 

**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**\*\*

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