Senior Backend Engineer

Who We Are

At BriteCore, we believe insurance can be smarter, faster, and more efficient. We’re on a mission to empower Property & Casualty (P&C) insurers to innovate, thrive, and grow their business with modern software solutions. Our cloud-native platform is mission-critical for customers, enabling them to manage policies, billing, claims, and real-time analytics in one centralized location. While others rely on outdated or on-prem solutions, we’re leading the shift towards end-to-end cloud technology.

With a commitment to continuous innovation, BriteCore ensures our customers benefit from new capabilities, enhancements, and a flexible and scalable core insurance platform designed to meet their evolving needs. We create solutions that meet today’s needs and anticipate tomorrow’s challenges.

We value flexibility, innovation, and the pursuit of excellence. Our distributed team is united by a shared passion for transforming the insurance industry and delivering exceptional service. We believe in creating an inclusive and collaborative work environment where team members are encouraged to share ideas, challenge the status quo, and grow both personally and professionally.

Join us at BriteCore and be part of a company that’s shaping the future of insurance technology. You’ll have the opportunity to work with talented individuals and make an impact. Your ideas will shape our future and your contributions will make a difference. If you’re ready to create something different, let’s build the future of insurance software together.

Summary

Join a passionate, agile development team to design and build applications that scale and support our platform. As a Senior Python Backend Engineer, you'll lead in modernizing our feature and technology stack. You’ll get to work across our stack, spending your time immersed in Python, Django, JavaScript, JQuery, and VUE JS. You will collaborate closely with a creative group of senior engineers, team leads, as well as product experts across the org. Because this is a high visibility role at BriteCore, you'll have the opportunity to shape the company's future direction.

This position is ideal for someone with strong Python web development skills, an expert applications engineering toolkit, and a passion for transitioning to modern technology. If you're ready to make an impact and thrive in a dynamic environment, we’d like to chat with you.

This is a fully remote based role, however candidates must be located in Argentina, Brazil or Colombia. Note: this is a long-term Independent Contractor position.

What You’ll Do

• Assist in the direction and supervision across multiple teams to influence engineering decisions and technology selection
• Help to maintain and evolve the software architecture for current and future needs
• Partner with product management to create features that satisfy user needs with simplicity, consistency, and robustness
• Engage in an Agile environment using Scrum software development practices, automated unit testing, continuous integration, code reviews, version control systems, and automated build processes
• Write and maintain unit tests for every feature
• Raise issues proactively that may impact delivery commitments
• Solve complex production issues and maintain the code
• Tackle system issues as they relate to performance, scalability, and reliability
• Stay current with the latest development best practices and share your findings with the team
  
  
  

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 4+ years of enterprise-level experience in both Python web development and coding in Python
• 4+ years of professional experience working with MySQL or other SQL database
• 4+ years of experience with building APIs
• 3+ years of enterprise-level SaaS product development built on the cloud
• 3+ years of hands-on experience working with Django or another popular Python framework
• 2+ years of experience developing in frontend frameworks such as React or VUE JS
• 2+ years of experience with Docker to containerize applications for seamless deployment
• 1+ year of experience building large-scale enterprise applications
• 1+ year of enterprise-level experience with AWS services like EC2, API Gateway, and Lambdas
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  
  
  

Bonus points

• 2+ years of experience working at a scaling startup
• 1+ year of experience working in the Property & Casualty (P&C) space
• Strong understanding of database design, SQL performance, different testing techniques, and approaches
  
  
  

Life at BriteCore

We take pride in our dynamic, diverse team, unified by shared values of community, integrity, grit and impact. We love what we do and the people we do it with, which is why we welcome every individual, provide them with equal opportunity irrespective of their race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran, disability or any other legally protected rights that one has.

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