Backend Engineer

About the role

Join our engineering squad in TLV to develop and scale the backend infrastructure for our Home insurance products. You will operate at the core of our technology stack, owning critical components that power our digital insurance experience. In this cross-functional environment, you will collaborate closely with product, data, and machine learning teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions. Your work will directly influence the reliability, performance, and scalability of the systems that serve our customers daily. You are expected to take initiative in shaping engineering standards and driving technical improvements across the organization. This role requires a proactive mindset and a commitment to delivering high-impact features under demanding production conditions. You will maintain full ownership of your codebase contributions, ensuring that your implementations are secure, maintainable, and aligned with long-term architectural goals. By leveraging modern development practices, you will help the squad achieve ambitious objectives and support the company's growth trajectory.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Architect and implement backend services for the Home insurance product suite using a microservices architecture built on TypeScript and NestJS.
• Design and maintain resilient APIs that facilitate communication between frontend applications, internal services, and third-party integrations.
• Take end-to-end ownership of the software development lifecycle, utilizing our internal autonomous tools for environment provisioning, continuous integration, and production deployment.
• Collaborate with QA engineers to define comprehensive test strategies, ensuring that new features meet stringent quality and reliability standards before release.
• Work alongside data specialists to integrate analytical pipelines, enabling data-driven decisions and performance monitoring for deployed features.
• Partner with machine learning experts to incorporate predictive models and intelligent capabilities into insurance workflows and customer interactions.
• Champion technical excellence by identifying bottlenecks, optimizing system performance, and ensuring that services can withstand heavy load and traffic spikes.
• Contribute to the evolution of engineering best practices by proposing improvements to code reviews, documentation standards, and deployment procedures.
• Mentor junior developers through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing sessions to elevate the overall skill level of the team.
• Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies, evaluating their potential adoption within our stack to maintain a competitive advantage.
• Drive initiatives that enhance observability, logging, and monitoring to streamline troubleshooting and reduce downtime.
• Act as a technical owner for specific service domains, ensuring alignment between technical implementation and business outcomes.
• Support on-call responsibilities and incident response procedures to maintain system stability and customer trust.
• Lead proof-of-concept projects to validate new ideas and demonstrate feasibility before committing to large-scale implementation.

Requirements

• Possess a minimum of 3 years of professional backend engineering experience in a production environment.
• Hold a BSc degree in Mathematics or Computer Science, or demonstrate equivalent practical experience through a strong portfolio and work history.
• Show a strong grasp of backend architecture patterns, frameworks, and modern development tools essential for scalable software systems.
• Have practical experience with TypeScript or other strongly-typed programming languages, with a solid understanding of type systems and design principles.
• Provide a proven track record of building production systems that handle significant scale, performance requirements, and real-world traffic loads.
• Demonstrate the ability to effectively use AI-assisted coding tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or Claude Code to enhance testing, refactoring, and development speed.
• Exhibit willingness to work from the office on most days of the week to ensure seamless collaboration and team cohesion.
• Display strong problem-solving skills and the capacity to debug complex issues in distributed systems under time pressure.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders during cross-team discussions.
• Take responsibility for maintaining code quality, writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented software artifacts.
• Show commitment to continuous learning and adaptability in a fast-paced, evolving technological landscape.
• Understand the importance of security, data privacy, and compliance in the context of insurance software development.
• Be comfortable working in an agile environment with frequent iterations, shifting priorities, and tight delivery deadlines.
• Demonstrate ownership and accountability for long-term project success rather than only short-term task completion.

Nice to have

• Experience with microservices deployment strategies and container orchestration platforms.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and managed services commonly used in production environments.
• Knowledge of insurance domain concepts or previous exposure to financial services technology.
• Contributions to open-source projects or participation in technical communities outside of work.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and performance benchmarking tools.
• Understanding of data modeling for analytics and reporting in large-scale applications.

Practical notes

• We prioritize candidates who demonstrate efficiency, adaptability, and a proactive approach to solving complex technical challenges.