Sr. Full Stack Engineer

Cowbell is signaling a new era in cyber insurance by harnessing technology and data to provide small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with advanced warning of cyber risk exposures bundled with cyber insurance coverage adaptable to the threats of today and tomorrow. Championing adaptive insurance, Cowbell follows policyholders’ cyber risk exposures as they evolve through continuous risk assessment and continuous underwriting. In its unique AI-based approach to risk selection and pricing, Cowbell’s underwriting platform, powered by Cowbell Factors, compresses the insurance process from submission to issue to less than 5 minutes.

Founded in 2019 and based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Cowbell has rapidly grown, now operating across the U.S., Canada, U.K., and India. This growth was recently bolstered by a successful Series C fundraising round of $60 million from Zurich Insurance. This investment not only underscores the confidence in Cowbell’s mission but also accelerates our capacity to revolutionize cyber insurance on a global scale. With the backing of over 25 prominent reinsurance partners, Cowbell is poised to redefine how SMEs navigate the evolving landscape of cyber threats.

Cowbell is signaling a new era in cyber insurance by harnessing technology and data to provide small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with advanced warning of cyber risk exposures bundled with cyber insurance coverage adaptable to the threats of today and tomorrow. Championing adaptive insurance, Cowbell follows policyholders’ cyber risk exposures as they evolve through continuous risk assessment and continuous underwriting. In its unique AI-based approach to risk selection and pricing, Cowbell’s underwriting platform, powered by Cowbell Factors, compresses the insurance process from submission to issue to less than 5 minutes.

Founded in 2019, Cowbell is based in the San Francisco Bay Area with employees across the U.S., Canada, U.K. and India and is backed by over 15 A.M. Best A- or higher rated reinsurance partners.

Position Overview:

In support of business objectives, we are actively looking for an ambitious person, who is not afraid of hard-work and embraces ambiguity when it comes, to join our Engineering Team as a Senior Full Stack Engineer. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of both frontend and backend development and at least 7 years of professional experience. 

What you will do:

• Work closely with product and business stakeholders to drive feature development. 
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of front-end and back-end components.
• Deliver high-quality, scalable, and efficient software solutions.
• Participate in scrum ceremonies and story writing sessions.
• Perform regular code reviews
• Autonomously break down ambiguous work and plot a course of action
• Design and implement clean software for the frontend and backend codebases.
• Quickly and efficiently debug application code.
• Assume technical responsibility of various complex systems.
• Write reusable, testable, principled code.

What Cowbell needs from you:

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in spring boot application development with 4 years of experience with microservices.
• Minimum 5 years as a Full Stack Developer. Including React and TypeScript.
• Strong architectural design skills, allowing you to translate problem statements into well-designed applications.
• Ability to effectively break down product requirements, analyze specifications, and decompose them into manageable tasks for development, ensuring a clear roadmap and successful implementation.
• An appreciation for clean, concise code.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities.
• Familiarity with Kafka for building scalable, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems.
• Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Postgres, Elasticsearch).

Equal Employment Opportunity:

We are committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Cowbell is a leading innovator in cyber insurance, dedicated to empowering businesses to always deliver their intended outcomes as the cyber threat landscape evolves. Guided by our core values of TRUE—Transparency, Resiliency, Urgency, and Empowerment—we are on a mission to be the gold standard for businesses to understand, manage, and transfer cyber risk.

At Cowbell, we foster a collaborative and dynamic work environment where every