Backend/data engineer, coverage intelligence

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.

Benefits

We offer competitive compensation and progressive benefits that include:

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

Stay connected to the Glacier. We have great SLACK channels for work and play. We also like to video conference and hold all-hands "Waddles" regularly. Penguin bling. Like swag themed after a certain Antarctic bird? Just. You. Wait.

Bold Penguin believes in inclusion. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer that considers all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. To learn more about our results-focused culture and employee-focused perks, read more on our careers page.

YOUR ROLE

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• 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.

YOUR LOCATION

This is a fully remote role, with the exception of onboarding and optional in-office events.

SKILLS AND 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).

Physical 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.