Senior Software Engineer
Our client, an AI startup in San Francisco, is dedicated to fostering innovation, collaboration, and professional growth. They seek a Senior Software Engineer to help reshape how the insurance broking industry services insurance.
About the role
As a Product Engineer, you will build and enhance the company's core AI products—from processing hundreds of very long PDFs and Excel files to building deep browser automations into legacy systems, and creating a scalable platform to support high volume and throughput. You’ll be responsible for both MVP development and scaling the product for growth. Your work will directly impact features that help insurance brokers better serve their customers while improving margins.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.
Responsibilities
- Develop complete features across both frontend and backend layers of the application.
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code with appropriate test coverage.
- Troubleshoot and debug complex issues across the technology stack.
- Optimize application performance and scalability.
- Own both product manager and software engineer responsibilities.
- Balance technical considerations with user needs and business goals.
- Incorporate customer feedback into product and features.
Requirements
- 4+ years of software engineering experience.
- Strong TypeScript proficiency (Python a plus).
- Experience at a VC-backed company (Seed to Series E).
- Proven track record of shipping user-focused products.
- Excellence in cross-functional collaboration and communication.
- Deep empathy for user needs and passion for user experience.
- Enjoy being hacky—getting something out to the customer as soon as possible.
- Experience building scalable systems.
- Hiring for both full stack and backend roles; at least a 70/30 split front/back-end (either direction).
- Undergraduate degree in CS from a global top 50 university.
Pay
$200,000 – $320,000/year