[Remote] Senior Software Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Beam Benefits is a company that modernizes the dental benefits industry and has expanded into ancillary employee benefits through technology. They are seeking Senior Software Engineers to lead code delivery, champion AI efficiency, and architect systems that simplify benefits access while modernizing software development.
Responsibilities
- Lead Code Delivery: Architect and write high-quality production code for complex, user-facing workflows, maintaining a heavy hands-on presence in the codebase
- Champion AI Efficiency: Serve as a power user of AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Augment to radically increase delivery speed and generate robust automated tests
- Define System Integrity: Set the standard for validating, refactoring, and simplifying AI-generated output to ensure the long-term reliability and maintainability of our systems
- Apply Senior Engineering Judgment: Exercise high autonomy and thoughtful judgment when tackling mission-critical tasks and complex feature sets
- Improving Access to Benefits: Build sophisticated product features that empower employers and brokers, reducing manual effort through intelligent, intuitive experiences
- Architecting Thoughtful Integrations: Lead the development of reliable APIs and standardized integrations to ensure our platform connects seamlessly with partners
- Advancing the AI Developer Stack: Proactively integrate tools like Claude Code into the daily workflow to automate repetitive tasks and focus the team on high-value engineering challenges
- Creating Trustworthy Systems: Scale our logging, monitoring, and validation frameworks to ensure all workflows remain stable, predictable, and audit-ready
Skills
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Expert-level hands-on coding ability in a modern web stack (primarily React and Ruby on Rails, though we value transferable seniority from other frameworks)
- Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc.) to improve development workflows, such as code generation, test creation, refactoring, or documentation
- Proven ability to integrate third-party APIs and AI-powered services into production systems
- Mastery of testing, debugging, and operating within cloud-based environments
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