Founding Engineer
About The Position
Our client is an early-stage enterprise AI startup building intelligent automation systems for the insurance industry. The company is transforming one of the largest and most operationally inefficient sectors globally by replacing manual, error-prone insurance workflows with AI-native systems. Backed by Y Combinator with one of the largest recent insurtech seed rounds, the company has already secured a pilot with a top-10 U.S. insurance carrier that could convert into a significant seven-figure enterprise contract. The founding team brings deep technical and domain expertise, including prior startup exits and experience scaling high-growth engineering organizations. With only a few engineers on the team today, this is a rare opportunity to join as an early foundational technical hire and shape both product and engineering culture from day one.
Requirements
- 2–10 years of full-stack or backend engineering experience
- Strong startup experience or evidence of exceptional ownership
- Experience shipping production systems end-to-end
- Strong product-minded engineering instincts
- Comfortable working in ambiguous, customer-driven environments
- Excited by AI-native engineering workflows
Nice To Haves
- Built production LLM or AI agent systems
- Experience in regulated or data-intensive industries (insurance, fintech, healthcare, legaltech)
- Strong TypeScript or backend systems experience
- Experience designing eval systems for AI outputs
- Experience with agentic engineering workflows
- Strong customer-facing technical communication
- Exceptional evidence of intensity / excellence (startup founding, competitive athletics, OSS, etc.)
Responsibilities
- Build AI agents and core product features from scratch
- Own full product modules end-to-end from discovery to production
- Work directly with enterprise customers to deeply understand workflows
- Design and iterate on evaluation systems for AI agent performance
- Build systems that ingest and reason over unstructured enterprise data
- Develop backend systems for scalable AI workflows
- Prototype rapidly and ship production-grade solutions
- Travel occasionally to customer sites for implementation and discovery
- Partner directly with founders on product and technical direction
- Help define engineering culture, architecture, and long-term technical strategy
Benefits
- Competitive early-stage equity
- Relocation support available within the U.S.
- Direct founder collaboration
- Meaningful ownership from day one
- Clear path to future technical leadership
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1-10 employees
