Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack (Golang)

Life insurance is one of the world's most important products. It's also one of the hardest to build, distribute, and modernize. Bestow exists to change that.

Bestow is a leading vertical technology platform serving some of the largest and most innovative life insurers. Our platform unifies the fragmented, legacy value chain, enabling carriers to launch products in weeks instead of years. Carriers choose us to scale and operate at unprecedented speed, powered by AI and automation.

Bestow isn't selling policies. We're building the infrastructure that helps an entire industry move faster, reach more people, and deliver on its promise.

Backed by leading investors (Goldman Sachs, Hedosophia, NEA, Valar, 8VC) and trusted by major carriers, Bestow is powered by a team that moves with precision, purpose, and heart. If you want to help reimagine a centuries-old industry with lasting impact, join us.

Bestow offers flexible remote/hybrid work, meaningful benefits, equity, and substantial growth opportunities.

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The Pre-Sales module team owns the agent-facing quote and illustration tools that power Bestow's life insurance offerings. We work across the full stack to deliver the end-to-end pre-sales journey from quote generation through illustration management, partnering closely with product and design to ship features that drive agent adoption and conversion. The team operates in a fast-moving, high-stakes domain where quality and velocity both matter.

Within Bestow Engineering, our major functional teams are product engineering, infrastructure, IT, data and analytics, mar-tech, and program management. Pre-Sales works closely with upstream engineering teams, experience design, and product management to define and prioritize the product roadmap.

• You will be developing core services primarily using Golang and PostgreSQL

• We're a startup with a long product roadmap. You will help and accelerate foundational services to scale the output of our product teams.

• Resolve issues with previously delivered features.

• Write unit and integration tests for code you create.

• Peer review code developed by others on your team.

• Ensure software is secure, maintainable.

• Work with designers, product managers, and other engineers

• Encourage automation and continuous improvement.

• You have 8+ years of professional software development experience (full stack)

• Professional experience with Golang (Go) is preferred

• Experience with modern frontend technologies including React and Typescript

• An advocate for Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

• Experience with distributed systems or microservices.

• Experience designing APIs (Protocol Buffers, RAML, Swagger, OpenAPI, etc,)

• Strategic Orchestration of AI-Augmented Engineering: Drives org-wide adoption of AI development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) across frontend and backend domains to accelerate delivery of modular, full-stack features. Establishes and champions cross-stack standards for AI-generated code from API design to UI components ensuring automated testing and documentation workflows reduce technical debt at scale. Coaches both engineers and managers on leveraging GenAI to bridge domain gaps, enabling more fluid collaboration across teams while maintaining high architectural integrity.

At Bestow, we’re proud to be awarded for our team members, innovative products, and culture. Our standard benefits include:

• Competitive salary and equity based on role

• Policies and managers that support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave programs

• 100% paid-premium option for medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Lifestyle stipend to support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing

• Flexible work-from-home policy and open to remote

• Remote and WFH options, as well as a beautiful, state-of-the-art office in Dallas’ Deep Ellum, for those who prefer an office setting

• Employee-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives

Recent Employer Awards include:

• Best Place for Working Parents 2023 + 2024 + 2025

• Great Place to Work Certified, 2022 + 2023 + 2024 + 2025

• Built In Best Places to Work, 2022 + 2023 + 2025

• Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Texas 2022 + 2023

• Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance 2022 + 2023 + 2024

We value diversity at Bestow. The company will hire, recruit, and promote regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We understand the importance of creating a safe and comfortable work environment and encourage individualism and authenticity in every team member.

Thanks for considering a job at Bestow!