Senior Back End Engineer [Remote-US]

The posting, as Quanata wrote it

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About Us

Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customer centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend some of the best Silicon Valley talent and cutting-edge thinking with the long-term backing of leading insurer, State Farm.

Learn more about us and our work at quanata.com

Our Team

Quanata, LLC is an insurance technology innovation company that engineers advanced risk prediction and prevention solutions, develops risk-focused acquisition capabilities, and builds/supports a full-stack, flexible, digital & increasingly AI-native insurance platform. This helps our primary clients, State Farm and HiRoad Assurance Company, adapt to evolving market needs. Quanata, LLC is wholly owned and funded by State Farm.

As a company that prioritizes an inclusive and positive culture, we believe the core of our success is in hiring talented people — across disciplines — who want to help us make a quantifiable impact.

The Role

As a Senior Back End Engineer , you’ll design, build, and maintain the core services and infrastructure that power Quanata’s products and business operations. You’ll develop scalable back end systems, connect data and machine learning workflows, and help ensure the platform remains performant, reliable, and secure.

You’ll take ownership of complex product features from design through deployment while contributing to architecture, data flows, APIs, databases, observability, and platform reliability.

As a senior individual contributor, you’ll also have the opportunity to shape technical decisions and support other engineers through mentorship, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing.

Your Day-to-Day

• Design, develop, and maintain client-facing and internal APIs that support product and business functionality.
• Architect and orchestrate data flows across back end services, applications, and third-party systems.
• Design and manage database schemas and data storage solutions that support scalable applications.
• Lead the design, development, and delivery of complex product features from concept through deployment.
• Develop and maintain automated testing frameworks and contribute to software quality and reliability.
• Evaluate, integrate, and support third-party services, tools, and platforms.
• Improve system architecture, performance, observability, security, and reliability.
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and knowledge sharing across the engineering team.

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twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave which may be taken within one year after the birth and/or adoption of a child. The twelve weeks is applicable to both birthing and non-birthing parent.

• Personal and Professional Development: We’re committed to investing in and helping our people grow personally and professionally. All employees receive up to $5000 each year for professional learning, continuing education and career development. All team members also receive LinkedIn Learning subscriptions and access to multiple different coaching opportunities through BetterUp.
• Location : We are a remote-first company for most positions so you may work from anywhere you like in the U.S, excluding U.S. territories. For most positions, occasional travel may be requested or encouraged but is not required . Some positions might require travel per the job description provided to the employee. Employees based in the San Francisco Bay Area or in Providence, Rhode Island may commute to one of our local offices as desired.
• Hours : We maintain core meeting hours from 9AM - 2PM Pacific time for collaborating with team members across all time zones.

Quanata, LLC is an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

If you are a San Francisco resident, please read the City and County of San Francisco's Fair Chance Ordinance notice. https://www.sf.gov/sites/https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2022-12/FCO%20poster2020_0.pdf

This role is employed by Quanata, LLC which is a separate company in the State Farm family of companies.

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