Staff Backend Engineer
Job Summary
Insurance is a $7T global industry built on professional labor: underwriting claims pricing operations and distribution. Were building AI that can perform that work - professional-grade systems for insurers that read reason decide and act inside real workflows over long time horizons.
We start by augmenting professionals with the tools to succeed at their jobs. That earns us the right to learn from real decisions capture decision traces and automate what can be automated successfully over time.
Our products are already in production with leading insurers driving measurable outcomes and expanding across functions. The opportunity is far broader than any single workflow - were building the AI operating system for decision-making across insurance.
Were backed by leading investors and our team brings experience from Facebook Palantir Google Amazon McKinsey Mastercard and Uber.
Were looking for strong backend engineers who love building reliable systems around fragmented high-value data. As part of the Core Backend team youll work on the systems at the center of the business - designing services data models pipelines and evaluation loops. The goal isnt just cleaner data but an intelligence layer that makes better faster and more explainable decisions.
Youll join a high-ownership team responsible for some of the companys most business-critical infrastructure. Your work will make our data more complete our decisions more transparent and our products even more valuable.
8 years of software engineering experience
Hustle and grit - excellent at your craft and relentless in pursuing it
Full ownership of your work driving projects to completion with minimal oversight
Proactive communication - surfacing blockers asking the right questions keeping stakeholders in the loop
Comfort with experimentation - testing ideas measuring results iterating quickly on problems no one has solved before
Strong fundamentals in system design debugging and problem-solving
Python (main stack) though were open to strong candidates from other OO backgrounds
Experience with serverless technologies (Lambda EC2) asynchronous workflows and cloud environments
Comfort with relational databases ideally PostgreSQL
Bonus: experience with LLMs/generative AI distributed systems
Competitive salary based on experience level
Significant equity options package
Work with an ambitious smart global and fun team transforming a $7T global industry
20 days of PTO a year
Global team offsites
Healthy living/gym stipend mobile phone bill stipend
Continuing education credits
Hustle and Determination - we take full ownership of our craft and relentlessly pursue excellence with speed and determination
Deliver Customer Impact - every decision is measured against whether it helps insurers make better decisions
Meritocracy - a high bar with excellence rewarded by rapid growth
Transparency - honest direct communication; we challenge ideas not people
Experiment Relentlessly - test quickly measure rigorously iterate until we find the path forward