Senior Platform Engineer

Venor is proud to partner with QuickFacts on their search for a Senior Platform Engineer to join their growing team!

QuickFacts is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company transforming how insurance professionals access and manage information. Their platform brings together underwriting guidelines, carrier documentation, workflows, training resources, and comparison tools into a single, searchable experience that saves clients valuable time and improves decision-making.

As QuickFacts continues to expand its AI-powered platform, they are seeking a seasoned backend engineer who thrives on building scalable systems, solving complex technical challenges, and developing innovative solutions that deliver meaningful business impact. This is an opportunity to join a growing technology company where your work will directly influence product strategy, platform architecture, and the future of AI-driven information management within the insurance industry.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing and scaling the services, infrastructure, APIs, and data systems that power QuickFacts’ next generation of products.

This position sits at the intersection of software engineering, large-scale information systems, and applied AI. You’ll work closely with Product, Front-End Engineering, and DevOps teams to transform complex insurance data into intelligent customer experiences. From designing scalable microservices and data pipelines to optimizing AI-powered retrieval systems, you’ll help build the technical foundation that supports thousands of users across North America.

This is a hands-on engineering role where you’ll write production-grade code daily while also helping shape technical architecture, engineering best practices, and platform strategy.

What You’ll Be Doing

Build AI & Data Systems

• Design and enhance the services, pipelines, and retrieval systems that power QuickFacts’ AI, search, analytics, and data-driven experiences.
• Support the evolution of AI-powered products through scalable backend infrastructure and intelligent information retrieval.

Own Core Platform Services

• Design, build, and maintain APIs and backend systems that support QuickFacts’ core platform.
• Develop scalable microservices and distributed systems capable of supporting continued growth.

Collaborate Across Teams

• Partner with Product, Front-End Engineering, and DevOps teams to ensure seamless integration, efficient deployments, and high-quality customer experiences.
• Participate in technical planning and architectural discussions across the organization.

Drive Performance & Reliability

• Continuously monitor, profile, and optimize backend systems for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Design systems that can support growing volumes of data, users, and integrations.

Champion Security & Quality

• Implement modern security practices for authentication, authorization, encryption, and secure data handling.
• Maintain high standards for code quality, testing, and system resilience.

Mentor & Contribute

• Support and mentor fellow engineers through code reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge sharing.
• Help foster a culture of continuous learning and engineering excellence.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of professional experience as a Backend Engineer, Platform Engineer, or Full Stack Engineer working in production environments.
• Deep expertise in backend development using technologies such as Node.js and/or Python.
• Strong experience designing and developing RESTful APIs.
• Proven experience building microservices, distributed systems, data integration pipelines, or large-scale information processing systems.
• Strong understanding of relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, Redis, and MongoDB.
• Experience optimizing database performance and query efficiency.
• Familiarity with containerized deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and modern cloud environments including AWS, GCP, or DigitalOcean.
• Solid understanding of authentication frameworks, OAuth, API security, and modern encryption standards.

Nice-to-Have Experience

• Experience developing AI-powered products utilizing modern LLM platforms.
• Experience with vector databases, semantic search, embeddings, retrieval systems, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures.
• Experience processing and managing large collections of documents or unstructured content.
• Familiarity with prompt engineering, model evaluation, and AI integration best practices.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code tools including Terraform and Ansible.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, and ELK.
• Experience working within security and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or GDPR.

What Success Could Look Like in Your First Year

• Launch services that power AI-driven experiences used by thousands of insurance professionals.
• Enhance document ingestion and content processing pipelines managing tens of thousands of insurance documents.
• Build scalable APIs and backend systems that support continued growth and expansion.
• Help shape the future of QuickFacts’ AI, search, analytics, and platform capabilities.

How Will You Benefit?

• Make a meaningful impact by helping modernize the insurance industry through smarter, faster access to information.
• Join a collaborative, curious, and highly engaged team that enjoys solving complex problems.
• Competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you as the company grows.
• Influence the future of a growing platform where your ideas, technical expertise, and leadership help shape product direction.
• Enjoy remote-first flexibility with a culture built on trust, accountability, and outcomes.
• Achieve real work-life balance, including the opportunity to earn a four-day work week after six months based on performance.
• Grow your career alongside a scaling organization with opportunities to expand your technical expertise and leadership capabilities.
• Access comprehensive health and dental benefits to support you and your family.
• Receive a MacBook and modern tools to help you do your best work.

Why QuickFacts?

At QuickFacts, technology is only part of the story. The company believes that exceptional products are built by empowered people who are given the trust, tools, and support they need to succeed.

While experience matters, curiosity, initiative, and a willingness to tackle new challenges are equally important. QuickFacts is committed to creating an environment where individuals can grow, contribute, and help shape the future of the organization.

If you’re excited by the opportunity to build scalable systems, leverage emerging AI technologies, and have a meaningful impact within a growing SaaS company, we’d love to hear from you.

Our Commitment to Community

We are committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects our community at all job levels. We welcome applications from minorities and other racially visible persons, as well as persons with disabilities and women in underrepresented roles. If you are a member of one of these equity groups, we encourage you to self-identify in your application.

To learn more about this opportunity, please contact Nick Misener (nick@venor.ca) and Vanessa Rodriguez Garcia (vanessa@venor.ca).