Senior Full-stack Software Engineer

Primary Focus: Infrastructure & DevOps

• 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/TypeScript

Supporting Role: Back-end

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

This role helps strengthen the engineering foundations of Kettle's wildfire insurance platform, improving reliability and scalability to support underwriting decisions that address real-world wildfire risks.

• 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.), DevOps practices (CI/CD, Docker, monitoring, reliability, security best practices), Infrastructure-as-code and reproducible environments, React/TypeScript frontend development, Postgres and database-backed applications, Python development including packaging and environment management
• Demonstrated ability to: Own systems end-to-end, work effectively in small teams and ambiguous environments, make pragmatic architectural trade-offs, improve engineering workflows and system reliability, proactively address infrastructure bottlenecks

• Competitive salary and benefits package, including remote work
• Opportunity to influence cutting-edge wildfire risk modeling in a dynamic industry
• This position is eligible for stock options (subject to board approval)
• Be part of a mission-driven company tackling real-world challenges
• Work with a passionate and innovative team in a collaborative environment

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