Member of the Technical Staff

Why Join Stand

At Stand, you’ll help build a new class of global property protection. We use advanced physics and AI to model catastrophic risk at the asset level, then automate underwriting and mitigation before loss occurs. Insurance is simply the current delivery mechanism. The real product is a scalable risk engine, our Stand World Model. We stay when traditional insurers exit. We model what others approximate. And we build systems that change outcomes, not just prices.

Our leadership team includes former successful founders and CEOs from Metromile, PolicyGenius, WePay, and HotelTonight, bringing deep experience in building and scaling high-growth companies.

Background

The property insurance industry is built to price loss after it happens. It relies on coarse proxies, backward-looking data, and manual processes, then accepts damage as unavoidable. Stand takes a different approach. We simulate how real-world catastrophes affect individual properties, translate that into actionable decisions, and automate the business around it. The result is a platform that can underwrite what others can’t and operate with far less friction.

The Problem We’re Solving

We’re solving the problem of traditional insurance models flattening the complexity of how real-world catastrophes affect individual properties, offering little insight to homeowners and few incentives for mitigation. Stand combines deterministic catastrophe models with modern AI to compute property-level risk and embed it directly into underwriting, pricing, and mitigation workflows. Instead of obscuring risk behind averages, we make it measurable and actionable - giving insurers sharper pricing signals and homeowners clear insight and incentives to mitigate.

The Role

We’re hiring a Member of the Technical Staff - Product Engineer with engineering excellence - someone who has owned large product surfaces, navigated tradeoffs, and is comfortable being accountable for outcomes, not just implementations. This role is not narrowly scoped. You’ll own critical systems across the insurance lifecycle, from core workflows (policy, underwriting, claims, payments) to entirely new products like wildfire preparedness inspections, risk monitoring, and customer-facing mitigation tools. You’ll work closely with applied scientists, product leaders, and stakeholders to:

• Translate complex domain problems into shippable systems
• Decide what to build, not just how to build it
• Productize models, pipelines, and tools that directly impact risk, revenue, and customer behavior

How we build

This role carries engineering leadership expectations:

• System Ownership: You take responsibility for entire problem spaces - architecture, quality, reliability, and long-term evolution.
• Product Judgment: You partner with stakeholders to shape scope, define success metrics, and make informed tradeoffs under uncertainty.
• Execution at Scale: You move between zero-to-one builds and hardening existing systems, knowing when speed matters and when rigor matters more.
• Technical Leverage: You use modern tools, including LLMs and agents, to increase team velocity and reduce operational drag, not to chase novelty.
• Clear Communication: You explain decisions, surface risks early, and create shared understanding across technical and non-technical partners.

Who This Role Is For

This role is a strong fit if you’ve been a:

• Technical Lead (Tech Lead / Eng Manager / Senior IC) who still codes and wants full ownership from product hypothesis through implementation and iteration.
• Engineer who has moved closer to product and believes staying hands-on accelerates outcomes rather than creating handoffs.
• Early-stage startup builder who has shipped and scaled real systems end-to-end and thrives in ambiguity and high accountability.

Must-Have Qualifications

• Proven experience owning and shipping production systems using a modern programming language (Python, Ruby, Rust, etc.).
• Experience deploying, operating, and monitoring applications on modern PaaS or cloud platforms (Heroku, Vercel, Railway, etc.).
• Track record of end-to-end project ownership, including direct work with stakeholders and end users.
• Comfort learning new tools, frameworks, and domains quickly.
• Practical experience using LLMs to improve engineering workflows, system design, or developer productivity.
• Genuine interest in Stand’s mission and the real-world impact of the work.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in regulated or risk-sensitive industries (insurance, fintech, health, climate, infra).
• Experience operating in early-stage or scaling startups.
• A pragmatic agile mindset focused on outcomes over ceremony.