Software Engineer II

Bestow is a vertical technology platform modernizing the life insurance industry through infrastructure, AI, and automation. The Software Engineer II will build and scale Go services for agent quoting, configuration, and application submission, while collaborating across teams, resolving partner-specific issues, writing tests, and improving CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities:

• Build and scale Go services powering agent quoting, configuration, application-submission tools used before checkout
• Partner closely w/ App & Checkout teams given tight coupling between surfaces
• Resolve partner-specific edge cases as distribution partners and volume scale
• Write unit and integration tests for code you ship; peer review code from others on team
• Use AI coding tools (Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) as default part of daily workflow — expectation, not bonus skill
• Support knowledge transfer to team with high contractor ratio (Howdy), pairing and documenting as you go
• Follow and help improve automation, CI/CD practices across team

Requirements:

• 3+ years professional backend software development experience
• Professional experience with Go; comfortable owning services end to end
• Experience with distributed systems or microservices, and designing APIs (REST, gRPC, OpenAPI, Protocol Buffers)
• Experience using Docker for local development, and CI/CD as default practice
• Demonstrated, day-to-day fluency using AI tools (Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, etc.) in real engineering work — able to speak concretely about where they help and where they don't
• Comfortable contributing to architectural discussions and picking up mentorship moments as they come, even without a formal title