Sr. Software Engineer - Backend

Cowbell is signaling a new era in cyber insurance by harnessing technology and data to provide small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with advanced warning of cyber risk exposures bundled with cyber insurance coverage adaptable to the threats of today and tomorrow. Championing adaptive insurance, Cowbell follows policyholders’ cyber risk exposures as they evolve through continuous risk assessment and continuous underwriting. In its unique AI-based approach to risk selection and pricing, Cowbell’s underwriting platform, powered by Cowbell Factors, compresses the insurance process from submission to issue to less than 5 minutes.

Founded in 2019, Cowbell is based in the San Francisco Bay Area with employees across the U.S., Canada, U.K. and India and is backed by over 15 A.M. Best A- or higher rated reinsurance partners.

Position Overview:

In support of business objectives, we are actively looking for an ambitious person, who is not afraid of hard-work and embraces ambiguity when it comes, to join our Engineering Team as a Senior Software Engineer.

What you will do:

• Work closely with product and business stakeholders to drive Product development
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of front-end and back-end components
• Deliver high-quality, scalable, and efficient software solutions
• Participate in scrum ceremonies and story writing sessions
• Perform regular code reviews
• Autonomously break down ambiguous work and plot a course of action
• Design and implement clean software for the frontend and backend codebases
• Quickly and efficiently debug application code
• Assume technical responsibility of various complex systems
• Write reusable, testable, principled code

What Cowbell needs from you:

• Proven experience (7+ years) as a backend engineer.
• Proven experience in designing RESTful APIs and implementing microservices architecture.
• 5+ years of experience in backend API development using Java 11+ and Spring Boot
• Strong architectural design skills, allowing you to translate problem statements into well-designed applications.
• Ability to effectively break down product requirements, analyze specifications, and decompose them into manageable tasks for development, ensuring a clear roadmap and successful implementation.
• An appreciation for clean, concise code
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities
• Hands on experience in Kafka for building scalable, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems
• Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Postgres, Elasticsearch)