Staff Application Platform Engineer

The role

You will build scalable, secure, and elegant systems to elevate developer productivity. You will design, develop, and optimize the platform while diagnosing bottlenecks across the stack.

What you will do

• Elevate developer productivity by abstracting common patterns and creating tools.
• Design, develop, and optimize the platform to be secure, reliable, and scalable.
• Diagnose and resolve bottlenecks across the stack.
• Champion security and reliability to protect sensitive data.
• Continuously improve resilience and efficiency.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to design and implement best practices.
• Own projects end-to-end from ideation to deployment.
• Enhance and expand platform services.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in platform or backend engineering (or equivalent expertise).
• Deep knowledge of TypeScript.
• Experience with Node.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and AWS.
• Proven ability to lead projects independently from architecture to production.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction across teams.
• Track record of building secure, reliable, high-performance platforms.
• Passion for craftsmanship including clean code, thoughtful design, and collaborative teamwork.
• Confidence making strategic technical tradeoffs with company-wide implications.
• Growth mindset and ownership mentality.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Platinum medical, dental, and vision
• Free life insurance including long-term disability and short-term disability
• Unlimited PTO including uncapped vacation days and paid holidays
• Maternity and paternity leave
• 401(k) contribution of 3% of income
• Lunch 2x/week
• Monthly phone stipend
• Home office perks
• Health FSAs and HSAs

About the company

Assured provides large insurers with software solutions to modernize claims processing. They provide tools ranging from self-service claim-filing software to backend fraud detection.