Senior Software Engineer

About Beam:

Beam was founded in 2012 by three engineers who saw the opportunity to modernize the dental benefits industry using technology. Today, Beam Benefits is a digitally-led employee benefits company that offers dental, vision, life, disability, and supplemental health coverage. The company simplifies and modernizes the $100+ billion ancillary benefits industry through its leading dental insurance product, breadth of ancillary benefits, AI-powered underwriting, diversified distribution channels, and next generation benefits administration technologically-driven customer experience.

The Role:

Beam is looking for Senior Software Engineers with a passion for building user-focused projects in an agile environment. Our engineers get the opportunity to work throughout our broad product allowing them to work with a diverse set of technologies and shipping code at a regular cadence. We also look to our senior developers to be good mentors for their fellow engineers and contribute their experiences to our development and product processes.

What You Will Bring:

You’re an experienced engineer with a passion for people and products. You're excited to work closely with partners in Product, Design and other Software Engineers to fully own and rapidly iterate on your projects. You are always striving to improve yourself, your team, the product, and the company. You love learning by digging into code alongside your team and strive to ensure we deliver quality products. You have a history of leveling up your teammates and thrive in a collaborative environment.

• Working in a complex and dynamic business, simultaneously serving customers across employee benefits insurance product lines and growth and service channels
• Collaborating with a diversely skilled team to continuously improve
• Being empowered as an owner and expert
• Being motivated by improving how people access employee benefits

• Regularly ship high-quality code
• Act as a technical advisor for your team to continually improve the quality of our code and products
• Mentor fellow engineers to help level up the overall knowledge of the team
• Propose and implement architectural solutions to ensure the continued improvement of our tech stack
• Propose and implement developer tools to improve the development process and developer’s experience at Beam
• Regularly evaluate the performance and scalability of our platform and work with our developers to follow and implement best practices
• Own portions of our agile processes

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or related field
• 3-5 years of experience with React, React Testing Library, NextJS, and TypeScript
• 5+ years Experience with building scalable Ruby on Rails applications
• Experience with using and managing Ci/CD Pipelines (Buildkite, CircleCi, Jenkins, etc.)
• Expertise in building secure, tested REST API's
• Relational DB schema design experience
• An excellent understanding of CS fundamentals: data structures, design patterns, etc.

Compensation and Benefits:

Beam offers a competitive base salary paired with an attractive variable compensation structure.

Employees benefit from performance-based bonuses and incentives, along with a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, dental, and vision insurance. Additionally, Beam provides a 401(k) plan with company matching, flexible time off, and the opportunity to participate in the equity program.

The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and budget for the open position and also may vary depending on the candidate’s job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, among other relevant factors. This range does not include an estimated value for any benefits, bonus, or other incentives that may be applicable based on position.