Mid Level Austin Startup and Tech Jobs

As a Python Engineer you will lead development on new features and technical improvements for our products. You will work with a team of front end and back end engineers. You will be break down stories in to tasks and collaborate with others on the appropriate technical implementation. Bestow software engineers are great teammates. You are willing to collaborate with other software engineers, product managers and designers. You also have exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Bestow is a smarter approach to life insurance using big data and technology to bring simple and affordable coverage to everyone. Who We Are We’re not your typical life insurance company. We’re on a mission to bring life insurance within reach to more people than ever before. To get there, we had to reimagine traditional industry assumptions, letting technology and big data lead the way. The result? Magnitudes of improvement over the status quo

The ideal candidates will have strong technical experience in one (or more) of the following areas: software development, application architecture, systems administration, network administration, database administration, data architecture and design, or performance tuning and benchmarking. Extra bonus points if you’ve used those skills with highly concurrent systems or have done technical support of enterprise platform technologies (e.g. databases). If you have a software development background, we prefer experience in one or more of: Java, Python, Ruby, C, C++, C#, Javascript, node.js, Go, PHP, or Perl. If you have an operations background, we prefer experience administering large-scale production environments, including hardware, operating systems (e.g. Linux, Windows), networks (including firewalls and load balancers), as well as cloud-based resources (e.g. AWS, Azure, OpenStack).

Continuously monitor and tuning threat management systems used to identify, detect and properly respond to unknowns or alerts triggers. Reconcile threats from multiple data sources, setting event thresholds and updating signatures/sensitivity. Research, analyze, test, develop, install, program and implement computer, data and information security controls, interfaces, utilities, programs as well as audit tools that are used to control, manage, protect and monitor information systems and applications across the company. Use network, application and open source vulnerability scanning tools along with manual testing to identify vulnerabilities. Discussing vulnerabilities/risk with business owners/team members to assist them in working through the remediation process. Review/investigate/correlate system logs from a variety of internal and external sources. Monitor audit trails and access on a regular basis for indications of attacks or inconsistencies.

As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for developing and optimizing new and existing web applications that deliver tremendous value to our clients. We are looking for candidates passionate about working in dynamic languages such as Python or Ruby and experienced in working with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to create rich client-side code. Our team is primarily using Django server-side, interacting with PostgreSQL, Redis, and ElasticSearch, all running on AWS. On the frontend, we use ES6 JavaScript with tools like Chart.js and OpenLayers. We’re also in the process of migrating to React.

As a Data Engineer, a person will have the opportunity to shape the future of Drilling Info, Inc by building and maintaining business-critical customer-facing applications and helping deliver the next generation of Oil and Gas information retrieval and analytics.   A Data Engineer will be responsible for creating and maintaining the pipelines to assemble different datasets, all this following an architecture defined by the company.   A Data Engineer should write maintainable code, and work in a professional software engineering and teamwork environment (source control, shortened release cycles, continuous integration/deployment, documentation, agile development).  A Data Engineer should have excellent analytical and critical thinking skills, should show initiative and a positive attitude. 

Work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment with a team of smart, passionate engineers, product managers, and designers. Lead a small team of talented DevOps engineers. Accelerate, optimize, and bullet-proof production systems and development processes. Manage orchestration, configuration, and provisioning automation. Own clusters of hundreds of nodes hosting petabytes of data. Design and create infrastructure in a continuous development, integration, and deployment shop.

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you have a unique opportunity to develop key components of a large scale, multi-tenant data collection, data integration, complex data computation, and high speed data presentation and visualization system. You will demonstrate a relentless pursuit of both quality and value while extending and improving our predictive modeling framework.

Collaborate effectively with teammates and colleagues across the organization. Write high quality (e.g. clean, well-tested) code. Deliver tasks on-time, clearly communicate challenges or roadblocks. Participate actively in the code review process. Design effective solutions to challenging software engineering problems. The Senior Engineer will be successful in this role when they.

Collaborate with teams across the company including Product and Design. Balance your time between coding, designing, mentorship, and leading your team. Participate in the code review process. Use agile practices to deliver features on a predictable schedule. Grow and recruit new team members. Work with team to design and implement new features.

The Platform Ops Engineer is a critical role that will have a significant impact on the direction of our product, technology and business. We are looking for someone interested in scalability challenges within a motivated, fast growing team. The candidate will work on different DBMS engines comprising our data processing platform.