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 through technology. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead code delivery, champion AI efficiency, and architect systems that simplify benefits access.

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

Company Overview

• At Beam Benefits we are simplifying and modernizing employee benefits through our intuitive digital platform, self-service tools, and AI-powered underwriting. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.beambenefits.com.