COVU is a venture-backed insurtech startup reimagining how independent insurance agencies operate by building an AI-native agent workspace that brings communication, automation, and workflows together to help agencies grow and operate efficiently.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time building end-to-end systems with a strong focus on backend development.
- Fluency in Python (Java/Spring or Go is a plus.
- Strong understanding of AWS and cloud-native design (e.g., ECS, Lambda, Dynamo).
- Experience with distributed systems, APIs, and data models.
- Proven ability to design and optimize systems for performance.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with tech, product, and operations teams to define the right problems to solve and how to solve them.
- Design and implement scalable backend systems using modern tools and patterns.
- Architect cloud-native solutions using AWS, with a preference for serverless approaches.
- Support DevOps efforts including CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and performance optimization.
- Contribute to system design reviews, RFCs, and long-term architectural decisions for the backend platform.
- Help improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes across the team for backend development.
Other
- On-Site
- Excellent technical judgment and the ability to work through ambiguity with minimal direction.
- Insurance or enterprise SaaS experience is a plus
- Be part of a high-growth startup solving real problems in a massive industry.
- Work with experienced leaders in AI, product, and cloud engineering.
