Senior Full-stack Software Engineer

Kettle is a fast-growing Managing General Agency specializing in wildfire insurance with a focus on advanced underwriting technology. They are seeking a Senior Full-stack Software Engineer to architect, build, and maintain core systems across their AWS-based stack, while contributing to front-end product development and enhancing their engineering infrastructure. Responsibilities: 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; Build and maintain internal dashboards and tools in React/TypeScript; Contribute to architecture decisions across backend, infrastructure, and applications; Design and maintain backend services and internal APIs (Python) Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; 5+ years of professional software development experience, including ownership of production systems; 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; Experience in python development, including packaging and environment management; 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 trade-offs balancing speed, reliability, and scalability; Improve engineering workflows, deployment processes, and overall system reliability; Identify and proactively address infrastructure or operational bottlenecks before they become critical issues Required Skills: AWS, DevOps, Infrastructure-as-code, React, Python