Senior/Staff Backend Engineer - AI

We are an infrastructure layer for the P&C (property and casualty) insurance industry, enabling digitization for traditional insurance players and insurtechs alike. We're closing a Series A soon and growing rapidly—6x last year, targeting 10x this year.

About the role

We are seeking a highly autonomous and curious Senior/Staff Backend Engineer to join our team building the agentic operations layer for P&C insurance. You’ll own the design and implementation of end-to-end workflows for insurance agencies, integrating with messy, low-tech systems, building reliable automation on top of them, and iterating directly with customers. This is a foundational role where you’ll tackle hard backend and automation engineering problems from day one.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship end-to-end agentic workflows that automate real insurance agency operations (collections, renewals, carrier integrations).
• Integrate with numerous disparate and often low-tech systems, building reliable and high-quality interactions on top of them.
• Work closely with customers to gather feedback, iterate on projects, and translate technical concepts into understandable language for non-technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to greenfield engineering work, building on top of our existing browser automation layer.
• Collaborate with the team through whiteboarding and system design to solve complex problems in a high-stakes domain.

Requirements

• 5–15 years of experience in backend software engineering at a startup (ideally 7–15 years).
• Experience at an early-stage, VC-backed startup (Seed to Series D) within the last 4 years.
• Proven experience building and shipping backend systems.
• Proficiency in modern backend languages, preferably TypeScript.
• Must be actively using modern AI coding tools (e.g., Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor).
• Demonstrated curiosity and desire to interact directly with customers.
• Must work in-person 5 days/week in San Francisco.
• Clear desire to work at an early-stage startup—you know what you want and can articulate why.

Nice-to-have

• Experience in the insurance, finance, or healthcare industry.
• Experience with browser automation, web scraping, or creative data extraction.

Pay

Salary range: $180,000–$260,000 USD base plus equity and benefits.

Schedule

Onsite in San Francisco, 5 days per week.