Staff Engineer
Axle · New York, NY · 29 mo ago
On-siteEngineering$200k–$280k/yrFull-time
About the role
We are building the first universal API for insurance, unlocking access to a core financial data primitive that impacts almost every industry and transaction. Our mission is to completely transform the communication layer for insurance.
Responsibilities
- Guide the core platform that pairs complex data structuring (using LLM inference) with durable data acquisition pipelines (using agentic workflows).
- Impact every customer we work with, across foundational use cases such as asset lending and business contracting.
- Work on complex problems including building industry-first evals for insurance data extractors and transformers, integrating context and understanding to standardize high-variability data points, understanding data management and hierarchy across overlapping data ingestors, orchestrating self-healing agents that automatically get better over time, building, and maintaining durable, scalable systems capable of processing millions of complex transactions per month, defining interfaces (API-driven) to enable turn-key usage of our data platform across varied applications, designing novel AI-led techniques for increasing the accuracy and reliability of our data integrations.
- Have complete ownership over the work you do — as an early team member, you’ll have the opportunity to truly own large areas of product and engineering and have direct relationship with customers.
- Work directly with the CTO and other founding members to help build out our team.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience (or equivalent) building complex systems in high-scale environments.
- A perspective when approaching common system patterns (e.g., state machines, event brokers, etc.) as well as API design and maintenance.
- A desire to define ways to increase observability, simplicity, and velocity across our engineering processes.
- Experience deploying AI/ML systems into production environments.
- Ability to take abstract projects end-to-end, operating with high agency.
- You've been at high-growth startups and know what "high velocity" looks like.
Qualifications
- Experience in fintech or data aggregation is a plus.
Skills
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Node.js
- TypeScript
Benefits
- We have a product loved by customers and being used in mission-critical flows at Fortune 500 banks and leading brands like Hertz, Avis, and Audi.
- We're punching well above our weight, supporting customer and revenue metrics with half the team size of other startups — everyone joining at this stage will have outsized impact.
- We're tackling unsolved problems at the intersection of complex data structuring, agentic workflows, and financial risk analysis.
- We've grown revenue 5x this year to multiple $millions ARR, with our growth continuing to accelerate.
- We're backed by world-class investors, including Google (Gradient Ventures), YC, and leaders from Plaid and Cox Automotive.
- We care deeply about our team and provide great compensation and equity, full benefits & 401k, unlimited time-off, and plan an annual team offsite!
Pay
$200K - $280K
Schedule
Full-time