Software Engineer (up to $250k)

About the role

Strala is rebuilding the foundation of insurance — the world's largest industry — with AI-driven claims processing for carriers. They reached multi seven-figure ARR in under a year and are growing 50% MoM, backed by Founders Fund (led by the partner who was early in OpenAI, Cognition, and Scale AI). This is a core backend role: you'll own and be responsible for the infrastructure, databases (PostgreSQL, vector DBs), and architecture that the product runs on, and you'll deploy to production on day one.

You'll create specs, build features, scale the existing codebase, and design the core systems that handle real-time claims processing at carrier scale. The role explicitly rewards founder-archetype operators — bonus points if you've been a CTO or founding engineer — and ownership extends beyond the codebase: you'll be expected to help hire your next teammate, set the bar for what gets shipped, and force solutions into existence rather than wait for them.

What They're Looking For

• You have 2+ years in backend development with Python and a track record of shipping fast, production-grade code
• You've owned core system design — infrastructure, databases (PostgreSQL, vector DBs), and architecture — not just contributed to it
• You know your way around REST, GraphQL, GCP, AWS, and Docker, and you can stand up cloud-native services end-to-end
• You operate with high agency and ownership — you take charge and force things into existence, even when the spec doesn't exist yet
• You love solving hard problems and you've got a history of doing so — bonus if you've been a CTO or founding engineer
• You want to ship from day one and take full responsibility for your code in production

About Strala

Strala builds AI-driven claims processing for insurance carriers — real-time fraud detection, workflow automation, and statistical optimisation. Series A with $55.3M raised and 50% MoM growth, backed by Founders Fund among other Tier 1 investors. The team brings backgrounds from Harvard, Berkeley, and Oxford alongside firms like Optiver, AMD, and Palantir, with ICPC and NeurIPS pedigree across engineering.

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