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Quanata

Back End Engineer [Remote-US]

Job Summary

The role involves building and enhancing backend services that support core financial and underwriting operations within a company focused on context-based insurance solutions. Responsibilities include designing APIs, managing data flows, creating database schemas, and deploying features, with an emphasis on performance, reliability, and observability. The ideal candidate has experience with Go and service-oriented architectures, along with collaborative and communication skills. The company offers a remote-first environment with comprehensive benefits including health coverage, paid time off, parental leave, and professional development resources.

Required Skills

APIs
Machine Learning
Testing
Performance Optimization
API Design
Backend Development
Observability
Deployment
Monitoring
Database Design
Relational databases
Go Programming
Service-oriented Architecture
Data Flow Management

Benefits

Health Insurance
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
401(k) Plan
Wellness Allowance
Professional Development Assistance
LinkedIn Learning
Coaching Opportunities
Work from Home Equipment

Job Description

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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
From data scientists and actuaries to engineers, designers and marketers, we’re a world class team of tech-minded professionals from some of the best companies in Silicon Valley, and around the world. We’ve come together to create the context-based insurance solutions and experiences of the future. We know that the key to our success isn't just about nailing the technology—it’s hiring the talented people who will help us continue to make a quantifiable impact.

The Role

We're seeking a Back End Engineer to build and enhance the critical services that power our business. You’ll be developing systems that manage core financial and underwriting operations, coordinating dynamic machine learning models to increase the intelligence of our industry-leading policy management solution, and optimizing our application’s architecture and observability to meet the performance and reliability demands of our customers.

Your day-to-day

  1. Design and implement client-facing and internal APIs
  2. Orchestrate data flows between backend systems
  3. Create and manage database schemas
  4. Build automated test suites
  5. Deploy, monitor, and maintain key product features

About You

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience and;

  • 3-5 years experience in a full stack or backend role
  • Technical skills
    • Professional experience with Go
    • Experience building high performance client/server systems
    • Have a good grasp of service-oriented architecture patterns
    • Prior experience designing and using relational databases
  • People skills
    • Strong communication skills
    • Effective cross-functional collaborator
    • Bias towards action

Bonus Points

  • Familiarity with some of the other technologies we use including GraphQL, gRPC, Postgres, Mongo, Snowflake, Kafka, Python, TypeScript, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS
  • Experience in a financial sector such as insurance, banking, or investing

Salary: $150,000 to $200,000*

*Please note that the final salary offered will be determined based on the selected candidate's skills, and experience, as well as the internal salary structure at Quanata. Our aim is to offer a competitive and equitable compensation package that reflects the candidate's expertise and contributions to our organization.

Additional Details:

  • Benefits: We provide a wide variety of health, wellness and other benefits.These include medical, dental, vision, life insurance and supplemental income plans for you and your dependents, a Headspace app subscription, monthly wellness allowance and a 401(k) Plan with a company match.
  • Work from Home Equipment: Given our virtual environment— in order to set you up for success at home, a one-time payment of $2K will be provided to cover the purchase of in-home office equipment and furniture at your discretion. Also, our teams work with MacBook Pros, which we will deliver to you fully provisioned prior to your first day.
  • Paid Time Off: All employees accrue four weeks of PTO in their first year of employment. New parents receive 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.
If you require a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to your Talent Acquisition Partner for assistance.

Interested in this job?

Application deadline: Open until filled

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Quanata

Backed by State Farm, Quanata powers the future of context-based insurance with risk prediction and mitigation solutions.

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Date PostedAugust 20th, 2025
Job TypeFull Time
Locationremote
SalaryCompetitive rates
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