Senior Full-stack Software Engineer

About Us and Position Overview

Kettle is a fast growing Managing General Agency (MGA) specializing in wildfire insurance combining advanced underwriting technology with deep industry experience.

We’re looking for a Senior Full-stack Software Engineer with strong Dev Ops experience and front-end abilities to join our engineering team. In this role, you will architect, build, and maintain core systems across our AWS-based stack, contribute to front-end product development, and help scale Kettle’s engineering infrastructure as we grow. This is a hands-on Senior IC role. You’ll start by shipping and improving systems directly, with scope and ownership expanding as you ramp.

You’ll work closely with data engineering, modeling, risk, and product teams to deliver performant, reliable, and secure systems that support our underwriting platform and geospatial analytics tools.

The salary range for this role is $,000

As Kettle grows, our engineering systems are becoming more central to underwriting, mapping, and data science workflows. We are a small, senior engineering team where backend and modeling capabilities are strong, but we are looking to further elevate our infrastructure, Dev Ops posture, and front-end tooling as our platform scales.

Today, much of the system works well and supports real underwriting decisions in production. However, as usage increases, we need to improve deployment reliability, observability, infrastructure consistency, and the overall developer experience. This role exists to help us proactively strengthen those foundations rather than reacting to scale challenges later.

We are looking for a senior engineer who can improve the reliability, scalability, and developer experience of our AWS-based platform while also contributing to the internal tools and interfaces used by underwriting and risk teams every day.

This is a product-minded engineer who is comfortable across the stack, with primary strength in infrastructure, followed by front-end tooling, and backend systems. You will have meaningful autonomy in shaping how we deploy, monitor, and evolve our systems, and will play a key role in raising the engineering bar as we grow.

In the first 6 months, you will:

• Improve observability, monitoring, and deployment reliability
• Ship meaningful improvements to internal dashboards and underwriting tools
• Become a key partner to data engineering and modeling teams for system reliability

In 12 months, you will:

• Have materially improved our Dev Ops posture and developer workflows
• Be a go-to person for infrastructure and architecture decisions
• Help shape how new underwriting and mapping products are deployed and supported
• Raise the engineering standard across backend, infra, and internal tooling

Primary Focus:
Infrastructure & Dev Ops

• Improve parts of Kettle’s AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, and containerized workloads
• Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent)
• Improve observability, logging, monitoring, deployment reliability, and cost efficiency

Secondary Focus:
Front-end Tooling

• Build and maintain internal dashboards and tools in React/Type Script

Supporting Role:
Back-end

• Contribute to architecture decisions across backend, infrastructure, and applications
• Design and maintain backend services and internal APIs (Python)

Essential Experience of a Successful Candidate

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of professional software development experience, including ownership of production systems

Strong experience in

• Operating production systems in AWS (ECS, EC2, Lambda, S3, IAM, RDS, etc.)
• Dev Ops practices: CI/CD, Docker, monitoring, reliability, security best practices
• Infrastructure-as-code and reproducible environments
• React / Type Script frontend development
• Postgres and database-backed applications
• Experience in python development, including packaging and environment management

You have demonstrated ability to:

• Own systems end-to-end, from design through deployment and ongoing operation
• Work effectively in small teams and ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Make pragmatic architectural…