Openly is a technology-enabled homeowners insurance platform that serves independent insurance agents.
<div class="content-intro"><h2 class="leading-none font-serif font-light mb-6 lg:mb-10 text-6xl sm:text-7xl lg:text-9xl"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><img style="max-width: 100%;" src="https://openly.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2026BPTW_GeneralBadge_FullColor.png?width=400&height=458&name=2026BPTW_GeneralBadge_FullColor.png" width="196"></span></h2> <h2 class="leading-none font-serif font-light mb-6 lg:mb-10 text-6xl sm:text-7xl lg:text-9xl"><span style="color: #815f99;">Why Openly</span></h2> <p class="leading-none font-serif font-light mb-6 lg:mb-10 text-6xl sm:text-7xl lg:text-9xl"><span style="color: #000000;">Openly is rebuilding insurance from the ground up. We are re-envisioning and enhancing every aspect of the customer experience. Doing this requires a rapidly growing team of exceptional, curious, empathetic people with a wide range of skill sets, spanning technology, data science, product, marketing, sales, service, claims handling, finance, etc. </span></p> <h2 class="leading-none font-serif font-light mb-6 lg:mb-10 text-6xl sm:text-7xl lg:text-9xl"><span style="color: #815f99;">The Openly Difference</span></h2> <p class="leading-none font-serif font-light mb-6 lg:mb-10 text-6xl sm:text-7xl lg:text-9xl"><span style="color: #000000;">We created Openly because we saw an evident gap in the market for premium insurance made simple. Consumers deserve more complete coverage at competitive prices. </span></p> <ul> <li class="leading-none font-serif font-light mb-6 lg:mb-10 text-6xl sm:text-7xl lg:text-9xl"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #2f2047;"><strong>The Price Difference</strong>: </span>Using cutting-edge data and technology, we provide you with customizable, competitive prices to protect your most valuable assets.</span></li> <li class="leading-none font-serif font-light mb-6 lg:mb-10 text-6xl sm:text-7xl lg:text-9xl"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="color: #2f2047;">The Policy Difference:</span></strong> Coverages are truly customizable to meet your individual protection needs, for both standard coverages and optional add-ons.</span></li> <li class="leading-none font-serif font-light mb-6 lg:mb-10 text-6xl sm:text-7xl lg:text-9xl"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #2f2047;"><strong>The Experience Difference:</strong></span> From tailored claims handling to highly responsive customer service, we are focused on making the home insurance purchasing process a better overall experience.</span></li> </ul> <h2 class="leading-none font-serif font-light mb-6 lg:mb-10 text-6xl sm:text-7xl lg:text-9xl"><span style="color: #815f99;">Welcome to your next adventure.</span></h2> <p>At Openly, our people are just as important as our product. For us, collaboration, communication, and work-life balance are more than nice-to-haves— they’re the must-haves that make us who we are. We believe a great company is the result of a shared set of values, so we look for these qualities in every candidate we hire. </p> <ul> <li>Integrity</li> <li>Empathy</li> <li>Teamwork</li> <li>Curiosity</li> <li>Urgency</li> </ul> <p><span style="color: #000000;">We've designed our hiring process with you, the candidate, in mind. At every step, you have the chance to present your strengths and learn more about what makes Openly a great place to work.</span></p> <h2><span style="color: #815f99;">We're committed to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion</span></h2> <p><span style="color: #000000;">We embrace individuality and believe diverse teams are winning teams. Our commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experience drives us forward every day.</span></p></div><p><strong>Job Details </strong></p> <p>We’re hiring a <strong>Senior Backend Engineer</strong> to be a part of one of our core teams building the backend for Openly's insurance platform. You will play an essential role in designing, building, testing, and maintaining the services and technology that power our insurance offering and customer experiences.</p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities </strong></p> <ul> <li>Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop the core systems and create APIs that power our best-in-class user experiences.</li> <li>Build out our internal tooling and APIs to make business and engineering processes easier, faster, and safer.</li> <li>Implement systemic changes to align existing systems with current architectural goals.</li> <li>Integrate with external services to manage payments, documents, and claims.</li> <li>Integrate with data providers to source real-time information on hundreds of data points, including property characteristics and risk profiles.</li> <li>Provide subject matter expertise, mentorship, and support to individuals on your team.</li> <li>Collaborate on architectural discussions with your team.</li> <li>Contribute to important architectural and operational decisions like microservices vs. monoliths, deployment techniques, technologies, policies, etc.</li> <li>Participate in daily stand-ups, weekly 1:1's, and biweekly retros.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Our stack</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Backend</strong>: Go & Postgresql </li> <li>Frontend: Browser-based, VueJS, Webpack, Nuxt &, Tailwind </li> <li>Research/Data Science: R, ArcGIS, Jupyter Notebooks, & Python </li> <li>Data: GCP GCS, BigQuery, Composer/Airflow, Cloud Functions, Postgres, SQL, Python, Go, Aiven Debezium and Kafka, Fivetran </li> <li>Infrastructure: Google Cloud, specifically Cloud Run, Kubernetes, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, and CloudSQL, managed with Terraform. We use GitHub for code hosting, DataDog for monitoring, and CircleCI for running our CI/CD pipelines. </li> <li>Remote work tools: Slack, Zoom, Donut </li> </ul> <p><strong>Requirements</strong></p> <ul> <li>At least 4 years of professional/production experience developing backend web-stack applications.</li> <li>Professional