ABOUT US

Bestow is the leading digital platform for life insurance. As both a direct-to-consumer destination and an infrastructure provider, Bestow is on a mission to make life insurance accessible to millions of underserved families. 

We ideate fast, embrace change, and take risks. As a rapidly growing tech startup, we look for the best talent out there and try to stay out of their way. From scaling our business model to expanding our offerings, the day-to-day at Bestow offers endless professional growth opportunities. The people who succeed here look for problems and solutions. They are both passionate about their ideas and open to having their mind changed. 

In the end, we value the same things our customers do: family. So we strive for work-life balance and believe happy employees make for better experiences and happier customers. It’s a model that helped us land the #2 spot on Forbes’ Best Startup Employers 2021 list. Boom!

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Enrollment SDK Team, you will join a platform team that builds and maintains Bestow's new TypeScript library that is powering the next iteration of our direct-to-consumer and partner-facing enrollment clients. Insurance applications can have multiple question paths, and part of what helps Bestow offer insurance to a broad audience is updating those questions often. This team is taking lessons learned from our existing efforts to build a library leveraging functional programming patterns to give us that flexibility and accelerate our future product launches.

Open to Austin, TX or Dallas, TX, or Remote (within the U.S.)

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Lead the team in adopting best-in-class tooling and standards to maintain an excellent developer experience.
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have a particular impact across your team and others.
• Solve technical problems of the very highest scope and complexity for your team.
• Exert significant influence on the general vision and long-range goals of your team.
• Shepherd the definition and improvement of our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Drive innovation on the team with a willingness to experiment and boldly confront immense complexity and scope problems.
• Proactively seek out difficult impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions that will enable the whole team to iterate faster.
• Work with Product Management, Design, and other stakeholders (Backend, UX, etc.) to iterate new features.
• Consistently ship small features and enhancements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Help improve the general experience of our product by improving the standard of the Frontend features.
• Help identify areas of improvement for the code base, both specific to your team and out of doors your group (e.g., component library), and help make it better.
• Learn from, collaborate with, and teach other Frontend Engineers.

ABOUT YOU

• Professional experience with React or another modern JavaScript web framework (VueJS, Angular, Ember).
• Professional experience with Typescript.
• Experience with writing automated tests (e.g., Jest, Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, React Testing Library, Cypress).
• A solid understanding of core web and browser concepts (e.g., how the browser parses and constructs an internet page).
• Demonstrated capacity to communicate complex technical, architecturally concise, and organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and resolve these problems.
• US Citizen or Permanent Resident (Bestow does not sponsor applicants for work visas, nor employ residents outside of the United States at this time).

TOTAL REWARDS

• Competitive salary, bonus & stock options
• Open PTO plan
• 100% paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Annual bonus based on individual and company performance
• Generous equity grant based on level
• Flexible work-from-home policy and open to remote

We value diversity at Bestow. We hire, recruit, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We understand the importance of creating a safe and comfortable work environment and encourage individualism and authenticity in every member of our team. 

Bestow does not sponsor applicants for work visas at this time.