Full-stack Engineer (Senior, Backend focused)

At Feather, you'll be trusted with significant responsibility early on. That means we value engineers who communicate well, take ownership, and are comfortable with uncertainty. If you enjoy shaping both the "what" and the "how" of building products, you'll fit right in.

The technical side matters too, and here’s the baseline:

• You’ve built full-stack applications with React and node.js, backed by a SQL database.
• You’re comfortable building UIs with a design system, like our own Dirty Swan.
• You're comfortable working across the stack, but you’re specialized in backend systems.
• You have a good understanding of modern web development workflows (CI/CD pipelines, version control, testing, and deployment).
• You can write clean, maintainable code and make sound architectural decisions.
• You have a good understanding of security topics and can employ a security-first mindset as you write code.

But that's it. We don't expect you to know everything about the latest hype architecture or framework. We prefer hiring someone curious but practical, who can pick the right, often boring, tool for the job.

We encourage people that don’t have a formal higher education, or who switched to engineering later in their careers to apply. If you enjoy the challenge and can learn fast, the team will provide you with the support you need.

You’ll help shape and work on product features in a highly collaborative, small team. This is a full-stack role, where you’ll be mainly focused on backend initiatives.

From day one, you’ll ship code to production, and over time, you’ll explore every corner of our product. There will be lots of hands-on coding, but that’s only a part of the job.

Your main focus areas will be:

• Platform: Maintain and develop our system with NestJS, Prisma, React, and PostgreSQL. Manage core infrastructure like CI/CD pipelines and our serverless GCP setup with Terraform and Docker.
• Product: Collaborate with Product and Design to help shape the projects on our roadmap, lead them from early on, and successfully see them to completion.
• Architecture and processes: Propose and challenge software architectural decisions and engineering processes to ensure the team can keep building our platform in a sustainable and scalable way.
• Mentorship: Coach other team members, help them to grow, guide them on product and software decisions, and keep a high bar for code quality.
• Security: Advocate for security best practices within the team, and help identify potential risks during implementation and audits.

Here are some examples of the kind of work you’ll do:

• Automate policy lifecycle operations, like cancellations and price adjustments, using Temporal.
• Introduce annual subscriptions and multiple currencies to our Stripe-backed payments system.
• Explore how to leverage no-code tools, like n8n, customer.io, and Tally, to quickly launch and test new insurance products in new regions.
• Maintain a questionnaire builder, built with Strapi CMS, that powers our signup flows.
• Monitor and improve database performance on our internal admin panel, that enables customer support work.
• Bring your latest unexplored idea to life during our regular hack days.
• Propose architectural changes using our RFC process.