{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"2b331eacf901ef6a4c0e084e","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/2b331eacf901ef6a4c0e084e","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/2b331eacf901ef6a4c0e084e","title":"Senior Full-stack Software Engineer","description":"About Us and Position Overview\nKettle is a fast growing Managing General Agency (MGA) specializing in wildfire insurance combining advanced underwriting technology with deep industry experience.\nWe’re looking for a Senior Full-stack Software Engineer with strong DevOps experience and front-end abilities to join our engineering team. In this role, you will architect, build, and maintain core systems across our AWS-based stack, contribute to front-end product development, and help scale Kettle’s engineering infrastructure as we grow. This is a hands-on Senior IC role. You’ll start by shipping and improving systems directly, with scope and ownership expanding as you ramp.\nYou’ll work closely with data engineering, modeling, risk, and product teams to deliver performant, reliable, and secure systems that support our underwriting platform and geospatial analytics tools.\nThe salary range for this role is $140,000-180,000\nWhy this role exists\nAs Kettle grows, our engineering systems are becoming more central to underwriting, mapping, and data science workflows. We are a small, senior engineering team where backend and modeling capabilities are strong, but we are looking to further elevate our infrastructure, DevOps posture, and front-end tooling as our platform scales.\nToday, much of the system works well and supports real underwriting decisions in production. However, as usage increases, we need to improve deployment reliability, observability, infrastructure consistency, and the overall developer experience. This role exists to help us proactively strengthen those foundations rather than reacting to scale challenges later.\nWe are looking for a senior engineer who can improve the reliability, scalability, and developer experience of our AWS-based platform while also contributing to the internal tools and interfaces used by underwriting and risk teams every day.\nThis is a product-minded engineer who is comfortable across the stack, with primary strength in infrastructure, followed by front-end tooling, and backend systems. You will have meaningful autonomy in shaping how we deploy, monitor, and evolve our systems, and will play a key role in raising the engineering bar as we grow.\nWhat success looks like\nIn the first 6 months, you will:\nImprove observability, monitoring, and deployment reliability\nShip meaningful improvements to internal dashboards and underwriting tools\nBecome a key partner to data engineering and modeling teams for system reliability\nIn 12 months, you will:\nHave materially improved our DevOps posture and developer workflows\nBe a go-to person for infrastructure and architecture decisions\nHelp shape how new underwriting and mapping products are deployed and supported\nRaise the engineering standard across backend, infra, and internal tooling\nCore Responsibilities\nPrimary Focus: Infrastructure & DevOps\nImprove parts of Kettle’s AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, and containerized workloads\nImplement and maintain infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent)\nImprove observability, logging, monitoring, deployment reliability, and cost efficiency\nSecondary Focus: Front-end Tooling\nBuild and maintain internal dashboards and tools in React/TypeScript\nSupporting Role: Back-end\nContribute to architecture decisions across backend, infrastructure, and applications\nDesign and maintain backend services and internal APIs (Python)\n\nRequirements\n\nEssential Experience of a Successful Candidate\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field\n5+ years of professional software development experience, including ownership of production systems\nStrong experience in\nOperating production systems in AWS (ECS, EC2, Lambda, S3, IAM, RDS, etc.)\nDevOps practices: CI/CD, Docker, monitoring, reliability, security best practices\nInfrastructure-as-code and reproducible environments\nReact / TypeScript frontend development\nPostgres and database-backed applications\nExperience in python development, including packaging and environment management\nYou have demonstrated ability to:\nOwn systems end-to-end, from design through deployment and ongoing operation\nWork effectively in small teams and ambiguous, fast-moving environments\nMake pragmatic architectural trade-offs balancing speed, reliability, and scalability\nImprove engineering workflows, deployment processes, and overall system reliability\nIdentify and proactively address infrastructure or operational bottlenecks before they become critical issues\n\nBenefits\n\nBe part of a mission-driven company tackling real-world challenges.\nWork with a passionate and innovative team in a collaborative environment.\nOpportunity to influence cutting-edge wildfire risk modeling in a dynamic industry.\nCompetitive salary and benefits package, including remote work.\nThis position is eligible for stock options (subject to board approval).\nOur Kettle Inc. 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