Backend Software Engineer (Payments & Partnerships) at Next Insurance
Boston, MA
$163,000–$220,000
Aug 3, 2026
Boston, MA
Nov 9, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend engineering role at a small business insurance technology company, focused on owning and developing the Payments & Partnerships domain. The work involves server-side Kotlin (or similar JVM/backend languages), cloud-based distributed systems on AWS, and shipping production code multiple times daily through a CI/CD pipeline. Suited to an experienced backend engineer comfortable taking features from design through production with high test coverage.
Senior level · 6+ years · Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Pay in the description: $163,000–$220,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,150 people in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,650–2,800
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $169,742 (middle half $134,780–$187,781). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 4, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The JD states 'Java/Kotlin or similar languages (Python, .NET)' under requirements — Kotlin is the primary/preferred language but the others are explicitly named as acceptable alternatives; all are captured under one skill entry.
Cloud experience is listed as 'an advantage' / 'a plus' with AWS named as the current stack — treated as preferred rather than a hard gate.
CI/CD is mentioned in the role narrative (not a requirements section) as part of the team's deployment practice — treated as preferred stack context.
LLMs appear in the 'What You'll Do' section as a productivity tool rather than a gated requirement — treated as preferred.
The JD hard-requires a B.Sc. in Computer Science 'or equivalent' — because equivalent experience is explicitly accepted, the degree requirement is set to Bachelors (the minimum formal degree named), though the equivalency clause softens it in practice.
OOP concepts and distributed systems experience are mentioned in requirements but name no specific technology or tool, so they are omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
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