Senior Back End Software Engineer

Location: Cambridge MA / Hybrid

(This role requires working in-office 3 days per week: Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday.)

EverQuote is a leading AI-powered growth solutions partner for regulated property and casualty insurance entities. We enable the largest insurance carriers and thousands of agents to maximize customer acquisition across digital channels. Fueled by our proprietary data assets and AI traffic engine EverQuote is transforming how providers attract and engage consumers to grow market share.

Joining our team puts you at the forefront of this transformation. You will collaborate with a dedicated group of builders to solve complex problems and reshape a massive industry. If you want to drive real-world impact and do the best work of your career EverQuote is the place for you. We move fast rely on data and hold ourselves to high standards of excellence.

EverQuote is seeking a Senior Back End Software Engineer to join our growing team. As a senior engineer you will be instrumental in architecting building and scaling systems that power our core business. You will also play a key role in mentoring fellow engineers driving technical excellence and fostering a collaborative growth-oriented environment.

• Design build and maintain scalable performant and reliable back-end applications and microservices.
• Mentor and guide engineers across the team providing technical insights and helping others unblock complex problems.
• Partner with product data and business teams to translate technical concepts into high-impact products.
• Help modernize and optimize infrastructure using microservices containers and modern automation tools.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science engineering or a related technical field or equivalent hands-on professional experience.
• 5 years in a high-growth software product company.
• Strong background building production-grade applications using server-side languages such as Python Java or Go.
  • Familiarity with streaming data platforms CI/CD pipelines or cloud-native infrastructure (AWS/GCP).
• Deep experience designing microservices architectures and deploying with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience leveraging modern software tools (e.g. Claude GitHub Copilot Codex) to increase productivity and code quality.
• A passion for knowledge-sharing code reviews and helping teammates elevate their technical skills.
• Comfort using data and key metrics to guide architecture decisions and validate concepts.

The base salary offered for this position is determined by several factors including the applicants job-related skills relevant experience education or training and work location.

In addition to base salary our total compensation package may include participation in variable cash bonus programs equity and a comprehensive range of health welfare and wellbeing benefits based on eligibility which are designated by role. The base salary for this full-time hybrid role is $150700 - $177300.

Your recruiter can provide more details about the specific salary/OTE range for your role during the hiring process.

This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship now or in the future. Candidates must have current unrestricted work authorization in the United States.

EverQuote is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin ancestry age disability genetic information pregnancy or a pregnancy-related condition veteran or military status or any other protected characteristic. Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs or practices upon request.

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