About Cascovia

Cascovia is a modern technology company focused on building intelligent solutions for insurance, banking, and financial services. The organization combines artificial intelligence, workflow automation, and secure digital platforms to simplify complex processes and improve decision-making. Cascovia’s products help clients streamline customer onboarding, risk assessment, lending, and insurance workflows. By transforming traditional systems into faster and more connected digital experiences, Cascovia enables businesses to operate more efficiently and deliver better outcomes.

We are an early-stage company focused on solving practical operational problems, including document collection, data validation, application processing, decision support, third-party integrations, and workflow automation.

About the role

Cascovia is looking for a Software Engineer who enjoys solving real business problems and building products from the ground up.

You will work across customer-facing applications, backend services, APIs, databases, external integrations, cloud infrastructure, and AI-assisted workflows. You will collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders to turn complex financial processes into software that is simple, reliable, and easy to use.

This is a hands-on product-engineering role. You will participate in the complete development lifecycle, including understanding requirements, designing solutions, writing production code, testing features, deploying services, monitoring performance, and resolving production issues.

The ideal candidate has strong software-engineering fundamentals, learns quickly, communicates clearly, and is comfortable taking ownership of features in a fast-moving startup environment.

What you’ll do

Product development

• Design, build, test, and maintain customer-facing software applications
• Develop responsive and accessible user interfaces using React, Next.js, and TypeScript
• Build scalable backend services and REST APIs using Node.js, Python, or similar technologies
• Create workflows for loan applications, insurance submissions, document review, approvals, and financial operations
• Develop reusable frontend components and backend services
• Turn product requirements and early ideas into reliable production features
• Work with design and product stakeholders to improve application usability
• Participate in technical planning, estimation, implementation, testing, and release activities
• Write clean, readable, maintainable, and well-documented code

Backend systems and APIs

• Build backend services that support customer, application, document, and workflow operations
• Design clear API contracts for internal applications and external integrations
• Develop synchronous and asynchronous processing workflows
• Build background jobs for document processing, notifications, data synchronization, and scheduled operations
• Implement validation, error handling, retries, rate limiting, and idempotency
• Improve service performance, reliability, and maintainability
• Diagnose and resolve backend issues across services, databases, and integrations
• Contribute to architecture discussions and technical design reviews

Frontend development

• Build responsive web applications that work across modern browsers and devices
• Create intuitive interfaces for complex financial and operational workflows
• Develop dynamic forms, dashboards, document-review screens, and administrative tools
• Connect frontend applications with backend APIs and third-party services
• Implement loading, validation, error, permission, and empty states
• Improve frontend performance, accessibility, consistency, and maintainability
• Work with reusable design systems and component libraries
• Ensure that interfaces handle incomplete data and unexpected conditions gracefully

Data and databases

• Design and maintain database schemas for customers, applications, documents, workflows, and audit records
• Work with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, or similar data technologies
• Write efficient queries and improve database performance
• Maintain data consistency across services and processing workflows
• Build data-validation, normalization, and reconciliation processes
• Support database migrations and evolving data requirements
• Protect sensitive customer, business, and financial information
• Help create reporting and operational visibility into application status, processing times, and exceptions

External integrations

• Integrate with financial institutions, insurance carriers, identity providers, credit platforms, payment systems, and data vendors
• Build reliable API clients and integration services
• Transform data between internal models and external provider formats
• Handle authentication, rate limits, timeouts, retries, duplicate requests, and provider errors
• Monitor integration health and troubleshoot failed transactions
• Document integration behavior, assumptions, and known limitations
• Design integrations that remain maintainable as external APIs evolve

AI and intelligent automation

• Build AI-assisted capabilities for document processing, data extraction, classification, search, and workflow automation
• Integrate large language models and machine-learning services into customer and internal applications
• Develop retrieval-augmented generation and structured data-extraction workflows
• Connect AI models with application data, APIs, databases, and business rules
• Add validation, confidence scoring, fallback logic, and human-review steps
• Test AI features for accuracy, reliability, latency, cost, and user experience
• Help prevent hallucinations, prompt injection, sensitive-data exposure, and unreliable outputs
• Use deterministic software and business rules when they provide a safer or more predictable solution

Cloud infrastructure and deployment

• Deploy and operate applications using AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or a similar cloud platform
• Work with Docker, serverless services, managed databases, storage, queues, and cloud networking
• Contribute to continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
• Automate application testing, builds, deployments, and environment configuration
• Use feature flags and controlled releases to reduce deployment risk
• Support development, testing, staging, and production environments
• Monitor cloud usage, application performance, and infrastructure costs
• Help improve deployment speed, repeatability, and reliability

Security and privacy

• Implement secure authentication and authorization workflows
• Build role-based access controls and protect customer data
• Follow secure coding practices throughout the development lifecycle
• Manage application secrets and sensitive configuration securely
• Support encryption for data in transit and at rest
• Maintain audit logs for important user and system activity
• Identify and resolve common application-security risks
• Consider privacy, access control, and traceability when designing new features

Testing and quality

• Write unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Test APIs, database operations, user workflows, and external integrations
• Review code and provide constructive feedback to other engineers
• Investigate defects and implement reliable fixes
• Improve test coverage for critical product workflows
• Validate edge cases, failure scenarios, and unexpected inputs
• Participate in release testing and production verification
• Balance delivery speed with code quality, reliability, and maintainability

Monitoring and production support

• Build logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and operational dashboards
• Monitor production services and investigate unusual behavior
• Diagnose issues across frontend applications, backend services, databases, and external APIs
• Participate in incident response and production troubleshooting
• Document root causes and help prevent recurring failures
• Improve application reliability based on production data and customer feedback
• Identify performance bottlenecks and recommend practical improvements

Collaboration and ownership

• Work closely with engineering, product, design, and business stakeholders
• Ask questions to clarify requirements and identify missing details
• Communicate progress, risks, blockers, and technical trade-offs clearly
• Take ownership of assigned features from planning through production
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and engineering planning
• Document important technical decisions and system behavior
• Share knowledge and help improve team development practices
• Adapt to changing requirements and priorities in an early-stage environment

What we’re looking for

• Professional experience building and maintaining software applications
• Strong programming skills in TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, Go, or a similar language
• Experience developing backend services and REST APIs
• Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React or Next.js
• Understanding of databases, data modeling, and query design
• Experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, or another database
• Familiarity with cloud services on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
• Understanding of software testing, version control, and deployment processes
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative software-development workflows
• Ability to debug problems across different parts of an application
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, application security, and data privacy
• Ability to explain technical ideas in clear and practical language
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to delivering reliable software
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with a team
• Willingness to learn new technologies and work across the technology stack

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, lending, banking, insurance, payments, or another regulated industry
• Experience building loan-origination, underwriting, insurance-submission, or financial workflow systems
• Experience with LLMs, LangChain, LangGraph, vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation, or AI agents
• Knowledge of OCR, document classification, intelligent data extraction, or document-processing systems
• Experience integrating credit, identity, banking, payment, or insurance APIs
• Familiarity with event-driven systems, Kafka, message queues, or change data capture
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, or serverless infrastructure
• Familiarity with Redis, Elasticsearch, or vector databases
• Understanding of observability tools such as CloudWatch, Grafana, Datadog, or similar platforms
• Experience working in an early-stage startup or contributing to a product from its initial stages

Why join Cascovia?

• Help build a meaningful product from an early stage
• Solve practical problems across lending, insurance, and financial operations
• Own complete features instead of working on isolated tasks
• Work across frontend development, backend systems, integrations, cloud infrastructure, and applied AI
• Influence technical and product decisions through hands-on contributions
• See your work move directly from an idea into the hands of users
• Help make complicated financial processes faster, clearer, and easier to manage

Cascovia values practical problem-solving, strong ownership, sound technical judgment, and the ability to turn complex requirements into dependable software.

Cascovia is an equal-opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, and business needs without discrimination based on any characteristic protected by applicable law.