Senior Backend Engineer

About Bowtie

Bowtie is an authorized virtual insurance company that meets the same high standards that customers and Insurance Authority expect of traditional insurers.

Position

• Architect scalable backend systems, services, and APIs
• Evolve our long-term vision for maintaining and scaling our backend systems
• Design high reliability services that can withstand large fluctuations in traffic
• Monitor our backend performance, identify performance bottlenecks, and find ways to reliably resolve them
• Write backend code that is fast, reliable, but also highly secure
• Work with engineers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
• Create backend components for new features while staying mindful of the tradeoffs between building prototypes vs something for the long term
• Maintain and evolve our quickly-growing test suite
• Help create engineering plans & roadmaps
• Create backend integrations with other APIs and web services
• Collaborate cross-functionally with the frontend, product, design, and other teams, on shipping and testing new features
• Add positive energy in every meeting, and make your coworkers feel included in every interaction

Your qualification

• Proficient in modern development languages, frameworks and tools, especially Python, Javascript
• Familiar with AWS and popular cloud development services
• Experience in Devops tools and CI/CD pipelines
• Self-driven, self-motivated and ability to identify/diagnose problems in addition to solving them
• Experience in design, build, scale and maintain production services, and know how to compose a service-oriented architecture
• Able to write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of our customers
• Experience with scaling production databases: Postgres, Redis, ElasticSearch

Candidate with more related working experience will be considered as Senior Backend Engineer.

What we offer

• Competitive salary
• Fun, co-operative and flexible startup culture
• Weekly sharing sessions and regular happy-hour gatherings
• Flexible working hours
• 5-day work week and Annual Leave
• Benefits include medical/ dental coverage and wellness program
• Professional Development Sponsorship
• Hong Kong working visa sponsorship (onsite position)
• Coaching by experienced engineers and domain experts
• Direct exposure to various aspects of insurance operations
• Agile task management