Bowtie Life Insurance - Backend Engineer

Mid Level

Hong Kong

Backend Engineer

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About Us

Bowtie is a licensed life insurance company and Hong Kong’s very first virtual insurer. Built with modern technology and medical expertise, Bowtie’s platform will offer life and medical insurance plans to customers instantly and directly.

Bowtie will also offer health insurance products under the Voluntary Health Insurance Scheme (VHIS) that is approved by Food and Health Bureau. By eliminating paper, commissions and intermediaries, Bowtie’s mission is to enable a new generation of consumers to access insurance protection and take control of life protection decisions for themselves.

Bowtie is backed with HKD 234 million from Sun Life Financial and supported by leading international reinsurers.

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Who we're looking for

Are you enthusiastic about technology with a strong attention to detail? Bowtie Life Insurance Company is looking for a Backend Engineer to join their team.

Perks

Competitive salary
Mac machine
Fun and flexible startup culture
Hackathons, weekly sharing sessions and happy-hour gatherings
Flexible working hours
5-day work week and 15 days annual leave
Benefits include medical / dental coverage
Hong Kong working visa sponsorship (onsite position)

What you will be doing in this role:

Architect scalable backend systems, services, and APIs
Evolve our long term vision for maintaining and scaling our backend systems
Design high reliability services that can withstand large fluctuations in traffic
Monitor our backend performance, identify performance bottlenecks, and find ways to reliably resolve them
Write backend code that is fast, reliable, but also highly secure
Work with engineers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
Create backend components for new features while staying mindful of the tradeoffs between building prototypes vs something for the long term
Maintain and evolve our quickly-growing test suite
Help create engineering plans & roadmaps
Create backend integrations with other APIs and web services
Collaborate cross-functionally with the frontend, product, design, and other teams, on shipping and testing new features
Add positive energy in every meeting, and make your coworkers feel included in every interaction

About you:

You are proficient in modern development languages, frameworks and tools, especially Python, Javascript
You are familiar with AWS and popular cloud development services
You have experience in Devops tools and CI/CD pipelines.
You are driven, self-motivated, and can identify/diagnose problems in addition to solving them
You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture
You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
Experience with scaling production databases: Postgres, Redis, ElasticSearch

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HKD

Python

Javascript

AWS

Postgres

Self-motivated

Who we're looking for

Are you enthusiastic about technology with a strong attention to detail? Bowtie Life Insurance Company is looking for a Backend Engineer to join their team.

Who we're looking for

Are you enthusiastic about technology with a strong attention to detail? Bowtie Life Insurance Company is looking for a Backend Engineer to join their team.

Perks

Competitive salary
Mac machine
Fun and flexible startup culture
Hackathons, weekly sharing sessions and happy-hour gatherings
Flexible working hours
5-day work week and 15 days annual leave
Benefits include medical / dental coverage
Hong Kong working visa sponsorship (onsite position)

What you will be doing in this role:

Architect scalable backend systems, services, and APIs
Evolve our long term vision for maintaining and scaling our backend systems
Design high reliability services that can withstand large fluctuations in traffic
Monitor our backend performance, identify performance bottlenecks, and find ways to reliably resolve them
Write backend code that is fast, reliable, but also highly secure
Work with engineers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
Create backend components for new features while staying mindful of the tradeoffs between building prototypes vs something for the long term
Maintain and evolve our quickly-growing test suite
Help create engineering plans & roadmaps
Create backend integrations with other APIs and web services
Collaborate cross-functionally with the frontend, product, design, and other teams, on shipping and testing new features
Add positive energy in every meeting, and make your coworkers feel included in every interaction

About you:

You are proficient in modern development languages, frameworks and tools, especially Python, Javascript
You are familiar with AWS and popular cloud development services
You have experience in Devops tools and CI/CD pipelines.
You are driven, self-motivated, and can identify/diagnose problems in addition to solving them
You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture
You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
Experience with scaling production databases: Postgres, Redis, ElasticSearch