Welcome to Archipelago, where we're redefining the landscape of commercial property insurance with our AI-powered data network. We believe in the power of accurate information to drive meaningful business decisions and offer solutions to generate that accurate information as easily and efficiently as possible. By connecting brokers, owners, and insurers, we empower our customers to navigate the complexities of the property insurance and risk management processes with confidence.

Archipelago was founded in 2018 and serves many of the world’s largest property brokers and their clients, representing over 500 of the worlds largest and most dynamic commercial property portfolios to improve their data and better represent their risks. Archipelago has achieved Series B funding from industry-leading investment partners including Scale, Canaan Partners, Ignition Partners, Prologis Ventures, Stone Point Capital, and Zigg Capital.

Join us at Archipelago and be part of a team dedicated to transforming the commercial property insurance industry. We're seeking individuals with a passion for innovation, a commitment to excellence, and a drive to further elevate and empower our customers. 

If you're ready to make a meaningful impact and be part of a dynamic, forward-thinking company, we invite you to explore our job opportunities and join us on our journey to keep data accurate and workflows seamless.

Who we are:

Archipelago Analytics is a fast growing start-up working to revolutionize the quality of commercial property risk data and how it can be leveraged. Archipelago was founded in 2018 by tech and finance entrepreneurial veterans with previous leadership at RMS and Apple.  We are an internationally diverse and remote-first company headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in London, New York, India, and the Netherlands. 

NOTE: Candidates to be located in New York, NY or San Francisco, CA metro areas only as we are looking to build co-located clusters of engineers that can meet in an office for collaboration and design.

Who you are:

Archipelago is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our growing team. We are looking for an experienced backend developer comfortable designing, developing & maintaining complex data services, with a focus on flexibility and developer experience. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a talented, passionate, and mission-driven group. We iterate quickly, ship every week, build for the long term, and are looking for smart, independent engineers who want to ply their trade with like-minded people.

Responsibilities: 

  • Build, deploy and iterate on new features and capabilities of the Archipelago SaaS API platform stack.
  • Collaborate with other engineers, design, and product to build out new capabilities and designs.
  • Own the quality of your deliverable through good design, implementation and unit testing
  • Take on a lead role in requirements gathering, scoping and planning projects from beginning to end
  • Driving the continuous improvement of our existing codebase by participating in code reviews, refactoring legacy code, and measuring code coverage and performance
  • Guide and mentor junior engineers
  • Ship code to production frequently

Key Outcomes you are responsible for:

  • In collaboration with product initiative owners support Monthly Active User growth through developing and supporting customer first user experiences.
  • Support user growth experiments through developing quick prototypes with product management in production.
  • Maintain and improve quality, performance, architecture, and security of existing functionality.
  • Bring your expertise to mentor and grow not just junior engineers but the whole squad.

Key Metrics & Results to measure your success:

  • Monthly Active Users for functionality your squad owns.
  • Test coverage through unit and cypress tests.
  • API and site performance.
  • Shipping frequently.

Qualifications: 

  • 5+ years of experience providing backend development to products and enterprise software
  • 2+ years of experience working with Golang and background with other back end languages and tools
  • Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs and well developed practices around, versioning, error handling on remote interfaces
  • Experience with integrating 3rd party APIs
  • Experience working in cloud based environments, e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure.
  • Building data driven services on top of databases such as Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, etc.

Bonus Points: 

  • Experience building applications for the insurance industry.
  • Containerization experience targeting Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with GraphQL

Benefits:

We offer benefits regardless of where you are in your career. We believe that providing our employees with the means to lead healthy balanced lives results in the best possible work performance.

  • Company Equity 
  • Professional Development Program 
  • Medical Insurance 
  • Term Life Insurance
  • Group Accidental Insurance 
  • Maternity Leave 

*All benefits are subject to change at management’s discretion. 

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity.  All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age (40 and over), race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, religion, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable state or local law. 

 

 

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