Software Engineer - Platform

About this role

Authentic helps insurance brokers create better insurance products for their clients. We provide the technology platform and behind-the-scenes support that lets brokers build custom insurance solutions for specific industries or customer groups. Think of us as the operating system that powers these specialized insurance offerings. For brokers, this means they can offer unique products their competitors don't have, earn more money, and spend less time on paperwork and administrative tasks. We handle the complex (technology, compliance, and partnerships with highly-rated insurance carriers), so they can focus on serving their customers and growing their business.


Responsibilities

• Design and implement platform infrastructure to support the next generation of insurance systems, taking ownership from problem definition through delivery
• Identify bottlenecks and build solutions that help the team move faster, balancing first-principles thinking with practical judgment about what matters most
• Own problems end-to-end, thinking through scalability, operability, and ongoing metrics—digging deep to understand root causes and optimize for real-world outcomes
• Implement reliability and performance improvements across the stack (infrastructure, deployment, observability)
• Iterate on existing platform tooling and services based on feedback from engineering teams
• Collaborate with senior engineers on architectural decisions and technical direction

Experience

• 3-5 years of experience building and maintaining production systems at scale
• Experience building distributed systems in Python or Go
• Strong understanding of modern API development best practices and design
• Familiarity with AWS, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment best practices
• Demonstrated ownership mindset: you clarify requirements, ask great questions, and drive work to completion
• Track record of building reliable systems without sacrificing velocity—you know when to move fast and when...