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We are looking for great talents who share our values to bring the good back through our passionate, innovative, and customer-obsessed team. We are also proud to bring a deep domain expertise and our own proprietary modern technology into Hong Kong. As we grow, we're looking for highly dynamic, hands-on and passionate talent to join our team.\n\nAbout the role\nWe are seeking a highly experienced and impactful Senior Software Engineer to drive complex feature development and technical innovation across our core platforms. This role requires deep expertise in scalable system design and a relentless focus on delivering high-quality, reliable, and secure solutions. As a technical leader, you will champion engineering excellence, collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, and actively mentor engineers to raise the bar for technical proficiency and best practices.\nJob Responsibilities\nDevelop new features for digital insurance platforms (e.g., underwriting, policy management, claim and payment)\n\nDevelop REST API and design data model for features\n\nMonitor and optimize API performance\n\nAssist in launching an insurance product\n\nDesigning architecture and maintain good application modules to build resilient production systems\n\nSupport ad-hoc tech-related requests and inquiries of internal users\n\nUnderstand user requirements and collaborate with the designer and product manager\n\nTransform product requirements to technical specs, documentation, and unit testing\n\nHandle user incident reports and bug fixes\n\nMinimum Qualifications\n5+ years of experience in software development working across the whole software development life-cycle (candidate with 2 years+ of experience and/or not fully matching the minimum qualification requirements will be considered for a Software Engineer role.) \n\nProficient in one or more server-side languages (e.g. Python, Java, Go, C#) \n\nPrevious mentorship and coaching experience is a must \n\nExperienced in building REST API and good knowledge of CRUD operation \n\nGood knowledge in using relational databases and understanding of SQL \n\nExperienced in designing/refactoring/migrating data schema \n\nGood sense of finding and patching bugs \n\nExperienced in maintaining production systems with profiling and bug monitoring Experienced in designing and developing a complete system (no matter how big or small) from scratch \n\nStrong system design and architecture skills \n\nPrior experience in startups and/or software product companies is a huge plus, but not a must\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperienced with Python, Django, Django REST framework\n\nGood understanding of different programming paradigm (OOP vs. functional programming)\n\nExperienced in using PostgreSQL\n\nKnowledge of deploying web servers is a plus\n\nSetting up cache layer\n\nGood knowledge of programming design pattern\n\nExperienced in the financial and insurance industry\n\nYou advocate software craftsmanship and take pride in your work\n\nWhat do we offer?\nCompetitive Compensation: A package commensurate with your experience.\n\nModern Hybrid Work: We value flexibility. Our current guideline is a hybrid model with a minimum of 1 day per week in the office to catch up, collaborate, and maintain team synergy.\n\nVibe Coding Culture: We prioritize \"flow\" and high-level creativity. We embrace an environment where we leverage AI agents and modern tooling to handle the boilerplate so you can focus on the architectural \"vibe\" and solving complex problems.\n\nAutonomy & Growth: A fun, cooperative start-up culture that trusts you to own your work.\n\nContinuous Learning: Education sponsorship and study leave to help you master new tech and further your expertise.\n\nOur Tech Stack:\nPython\n\nDjango & Django REST\n\nTypeScript\n\nAWS\n\nReactJS\n\nAbout the Job\nWhat problems will you solve?\nAs a backend engineer in Bowtie, you will be leading and working on producing intuitive, reliable, and sleek software that makes insurance operations a bliss. Your projects can range from developing claims systems, and improving our underwriting engine, to any other tools that make our teams' life easier and more efficient.\nIn case you are wondering how we are doing so far, here is coverage of our first-of-its-kind online underwriting engine.\nWhat will your day-to-day look like?\nOur engineers never work in a silo. You will be working in a cross-functional team responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment. You will be directly interacting with teammates from different departments.\nWhile communication is crucial, we do appreciate that engineers need a quiet and disturbance-free environment to be the most productive. We make arrangements to let our engineers work from home since our early days and we have a flexible hours policy that lets people work on their schedule as long as they can effectively collaborate with different parties.\nWe work together as a team and our engineers never work in silos.\nCross-team collaboration is the key ingredient to our success. As an engineer at Bowtie, you will be participating in meetings with different stakeholders and a cross-functional project team from early on in the product development process. This is to make sure that engineering challenges/barriers will be uncovered and discussed at an early stage of design/decision making.\nWe are on a constant search for better ways to operate. At the moment, we are exploring the benefit of the 6-week sprint cycle from Basecamp. But we are always happy to take on new suggestions and discover alternative options.\nWe are a lean team, but we have built/are building some big software that takes hundreds of engineers and years to build.\nIf you are looking to join a multi-award-winning team (HKICT Fintech Award Winner of 2017, Hong Kong Insurance Award 2020, just to name a few) that has been featured and recognised by tech companies, such as AWS, get in touch today!\nInformation collected will be treated in strict confidence and used solely for recruitment purposes.\nThe company will retain all applications no longer than 24 months of which will be destroyed thereafter.\nWe are an equal-opportunity employer. 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