Staff Engineer
Staff Engineer
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05-04-2025
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Job Description
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 digitallyled 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 AIpowered underwriting diversified distribution channels and next generation benefits administration technologicallydriven customer experience.
What Were Looking For:
Were looking for a Staff Engineer to play a critical role in shaping our technology landscape driving architectural decisions and mentoring engineering teams. This is a highimpact role where youll blend technical expertise with leadership ensuring Beams systems are robust efficient and futureready.
A successful Staff Engineer at Beam thrives on solving complex technical challenges optimizing system performance and collaborating crossfunctionally to push engineering excellence forward.
Joining Beam Benefits Means:
- Working in a complex and dynamic business simultaneously serving customersacross 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
What You Will Do:
- Lead the architecture and implementation of large crossfunctional engineering projects
- Drive technical strategy ensuring systems are scalable performant and maintainable
- Provide handson development support balancing leadership responsibilities with active coding
- Establish and uphold best practices in software development including code quality testing and security
- Partner with Engineering leadership to evolve Beams technical infrastructure and tooling
- Work closely with Product Design and other Engineering teams to align on technical goals and business priorities
- Collaborate with Data and DevOps teams to enhance system reliability observability and automation
- Mentor and guide senior engineers fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence
- Participate in quarterly planning cycles ensuring engineering efforts align with Beams longterm vision
- Identify opportunities to improve system performance scalability and cost efficiency
- Drive adoption of modern technologies and architectural improvements
- Implement strategies for technical debt reduction while balancing feature development
What Skills Will Help You Be Successful:
- 68 years of experience in software engineering with a proven track record of technical leadership
- Deep expertise in systems architecture scalability and performance optimization
- Strong experience in Python Ruby and JavaScript with a solid understanding of modern frameworks and cloud infrastructure
- Ability to influence technical decisionmaking and align teams around strategic initiatives
- Excellent problemsolving and troubleshooting abilities particularly in largescale distributed systems
- Experience working in Agile environments with a focus on continuous improvement and iteration
$132500 $211900 a year
Compensation and Benefits:
Beam offers a competitive base salary paired with an attractive variable compensation structure.
Employees benefit from performancebased 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 candidates jobrelated 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.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
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