[Hiring] Full Stack Developer @Bold Penguin

Role Description

As a Full Stack Developer on our team, you will design, build, and maintain internal applications, developer portals, automated workflows, and APIs that empower our engineering and cross-functional teams across the organization. You will streamline internal workflows, build user-friendly interfaces and services for provisioning ephemeral testing environments within CI/CD pipelines, construct efficient data integration pipelines, and collaborate with peers to continuously improve tooling so teams can build and ship faster.

What You'll Do

• Design, develop, and deploy full-stack web applications, internal developer portals, and microservices that automate manual processes across engineering and business teams.
• Build self-service web interfaces, CLI tools, and automated backend services to provision ephemeral environments, triggers, and pipelines within our CI/CD systems.
• Develop robust automated data pipelines to move, transform, and integrate data across internal systems and third-party services.
• Craft intuitive, responsive user interfaces and dashboards that give internal stakeholders real-time visibility into workflow automation, deployment status, and platform metrics.
• Apply security best practices, identity/auth controls, unit/integration testing, and compliance guardrails across full-stack applications and data workflows.
• Implement logging, monitoring, and tracing across applications and automated services to ensure high availability, performance, and clear incident visibility.
• Partner closely with engineering, product, and operations teams to gather requirements, iterate on feedback, and deliver high-impact developer experiences.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of relevant engineering experience.
• Strong backend development skills (Python or Ruby preferred), with experience building RESTful APIs and microservices in cloud-native environments.
• Experience working with relational and non-relational database technologies (e.g., PostgreSQL, AWS RDS, MongoDB, Redis).
• Frontend development experience building interactive web applications and dashboards using JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Solid understanding of containerization (Docker) and deploying/debugging full-stack applications in cloud environments (particularly AWS).
• Experience consuming, configuring, or extending CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline) to automate build, test, and release processes.
• Good understanding of software architecture, data modeling, automated testing (unit, integration, end-to-end), and security/authentication standards (OAuth2, OIDC).

Nice to Haves

• Experience developing internal developer tools, CLI utilities, or self-service developer portals (e.g., Backstage).
• Experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Vue.js, or Next.js).
• Experience building or supporting data pipelines and ETL processes (e.g., Apache Spark, AWS Glue, Snowflake).
• Familiarity with basic Infrastructure as Code concepts (Terraform, AWS CDK) and monitoring/observability platforms (DataDog, Grafana).

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.

Benefits

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

Company Description

Bold Penguin is the premier digital broker for commercial insurance. Their technology expands top-of-funnel demand and increases yield for enterprise partners. Through digital distribution, wholesale capabilities, and AI-driven insights, they transform the lifecycle of both simple and complex risks, from prospecting to placement.