[Hiring] Backend/Data Engineer @Bold Penguin

Role Description

• Design, build and operate the pipelines and data stores behind coverage intelligence.
• Build the services and data contracts that deliver coverage insights to other teams and products.
• Ensure every result can be traced back to its source, with strong data quality and lineage.
• Build the data infrastructure that lets the team measure accuracy and improve it with every release.
• Own the reliability, performance and cost of the team’s production services.
• Uphold security and privacy standards for sensitive policy and customer data.
• Partner with engineers and specialists across teams to integrate coverage data into the wider platform.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in backend or data engineering, building and operating production services and pipelines.
• Strong Python and SQL.
• Experience with MongoDB and relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar).
• Experience designing APIs and data contracts consumed by other teams.
• Experience with workflow orchestration (e.g., Prefect or Airflow) and batch and event-driven processing.
• Hands-on AWS experience, including containers, infrastructure as code and observability tooling.
• Experience modeling versioned, effective-dated reference data.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Works autonomously with minimal direction, sets a clear path through ambiguity, and holds a high bar for quality.
• Thrives on the energy of a start up: comfortable with pace, changing priorities, and building the function while running it.
• Experience supporting machine learning or LLM systems in production, such as data pipelines, evaluation data or model serving (strongly preferred).
• Experience with search stores such as OpenSearch (preferred).
• Experience supporting LLM observability or evaluation tooling (preferred).
• Insurance or insurtech experience, including familiarity with insurance concepts and insurance-specific canonical data models (preferred).

Requirements

• Must be able to sit/stand/walk for prolonged periods of time (up to 8 hours per day), at a desk working on a computer.
• Must be able to use standard office equipment for extended periods of time, including but not limited to, a mouse, keyboard, phone and video conferencing.
• Must be able to travel to the Bold Penguin office in Dublin, Ohio for New Hire Onboarding & Orientation (2 days, 2 nights); travel costs are covered by Bold Penguin.
• Must be able to travel occasionally (up to 10%) for corporate events and team planning sessions.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Flexible PTO Policy
• 401(k) with a company match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Parental Leave
• Disability and Life Benefits