Job Description: Platform Engineer

About Tint

Tint enables SaaS platforms and marketplaces to unlock growth and improve profitability through embedded insurance and protection programs. We offer plug-and-play and white-labeled integrations, equipping brands we partner with a sophisticated mix of technology infrastructure, services, and deep industry expertise. We are on a mission to transform insurance from a product bought separately to a feature of brands consumers love.

Happy Tint customers include: Turo, Deel, uShip, Guesty, Neighbor, BabyQuip, and CitizenShipper, among others.

We've raised $30M and are backed by world-class investors such as Y Combinator, QED, Deciens, Nyca, Plug and Play, WIN, Soma Capital, and Pioneer Fund.

About the Role

As a member of the Tint Platform Engineering team, your goal is to lay down solid foundations to enhance the velocity and Developer Experience of all other Engineers. You will identify the team's main pain points, devise optimal solutions, and implement them from start to finish.

With strong technical leadership, you are an advocate for code quality, ensuring high standards of both quality and security. You will maintain consistency in our code architecture across the entire platform, aligning it with the needs of our Software Engineers.

Your responsibilities will include reviewing pull requests, scouring our Slack technical channels, and analyzing platform performance to identify opportunities for improving Developer Experience. You will contribute to the prioritization of features by estimating both the required effort and the impact of these proposals. Finally, you will implement them, and measure the final impact of the developed initiative.

Additionally, you will mentor other Engineers through thorough code reviews, peer programming sessions, and by serving as a reference for all architectural questions.

What You Will Do

• Advocate for and promote Engineering best practices and culture within the company.
• Take a hands-on approach to drive platform-wide technical refactoring.
• Improve existing infrastructure and contribute to new & existing build tools.
• Leverage experience in third-party integrations (e.g., Stripe, Stytch) to enable product engineering teams in delivering new features.
• Lead by example, writing code as a standard of excellence, for clarity and testability.
• Be part of our on-call team to address production incidents.
• Lead technical design and planning for platform-wide initiatives.
• Establish and own up-to-date documentation about our technical tooling.
• Proactively propose improvements to enhance Software Engineering efficiency and platform reliability.
• Mentor other Engineers to ensure high standards of quality and security.
• Analyze other Engineers pain points and implement effective solutions.

You Should Apply If You Have...

• Over 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer.
• Strongly Preferred Expertise: Node, React, TypeScript, SQL, Docker, Terraform, and AWS infrastructure.
• Comfortable with an AI-assisted workflow leveraging tools like Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, Warp, and other AI tooling.
• Expertise in design patterns and extensive experience implementing them.
• Consistently advocate for security and development best practices.
• Hands-on capability to handle platform-wide technical refactoring in a timely manner.
• Sharp analytical skills to identify Software Engineers' pain points and devise pragmatic solutions.
• Strong documentation skills to create and maintain internal technical knowledge.
• A passion for contributing to the community through blog posts or open-source projects.
• Located in the US, do not require visa sponsorship, and are comfortable with and able to travel every ~8 to 12 weeks.
• Thrive on projects containing a lot of ambiguity.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment with fast-changing priorities.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

What We Value Most in a Candidate

• Culture