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Backend Engineer (Platform) Staff+

Meanwhile

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Nov 19, 2025
San Francisco, CA, US
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Meanwhile is building the world's largest long-term insurer using digital money and AI to serve billions of people profitably. The company aims to create a vertically integrated life (re)insurer with globally unique product offerings, scaling its balance sheet and building modern systems from scratch to compete in a market that is 3% of global GDP.

Requirements

  • speak Python
  • produce GraphQL
  • work with CI/CD systems
  • work with infrastructure-as-code (AWS using Terraform)
  • work with a variety of AI tools

Responsibilities

  • substantial ownership over the shared backend services that support all of our product work
  • drive the evolution of our platform by identifying and triaging opportunities to build or rebuild core platform functionality
  • making technology choices to support new services and capabilities
  • scoping significant independent engineering projects, and driving them to completion
  • work closely with product engineers to identify platform needs and develop effective, but not overbuilt, solutions
  • speak Python, produce GraphQL, and work with CI/CD systems, infrastructure-as-code (AWS using Terraform), and a variety of AI tools
  • fix million-dollar bugs

Other

  • polymathic interests and be eager and able to learn and assimilate technologies and domains with which you are unfamiliar
  • work will inevitably touch on many disciplinary concerns (compliance, legal across multiple jurisdictions, actuarial, financial, etc.) and many technical areas (domain modeling, API design, developer experience, observability, analytics, test, etc.)
  • eager to learn, with the rest of the team, how to work with AI tools, including agents, in order to move faster and ship better, more complete versions of your ideas
  • experiment with new ways of working, with the expectation that some of them will be unsuccessful, and you will teach others what works
  • ownership is taken, not given