Member of Technical Staff
About The Position
Our client is building an AI-native platform modernizing healthcare insurance workflows for small and mid-sized businesses. They are replacing legacy brokerage operations with production-grade AI agents that automate quoting, enrollment, census normalization, servicing workflows, and carrier integrations — delivering dramatically better healthcare access at lower operational cost. Backed by top-tier investors with an elite second-time founding team, this is an opportunity to join extremely early and help define engineering culture while building AI systems solving real healthcare infrastructure problems.
Requirements
- 2–8 years of software engineering experience
- Backend-leaning full-stack engineering background
- Strong experience at VC-backed startups or top-tier tech companies
- Prior startup experience strongly preferred
- Experience shipping production systems independently
- Strong TypeScript and/or Python proficiency
- Experience with React or modern frontend frameworks
- Experience building AI-powered workflows / agentic systems
- Experience with browser automation, workflow orchestration, or integrations
- CS degree from a top-tier university strongly preferred
Nice To Haves
- Healthcare / insurance experience is a plus, not required
- Built production AI agents or workflow automation systems
- Experience with Temporal / orchestration frameworks
- Experience with Playwright / browser automation
- Experience integrating external systems via APIs / EDI / SFTP
- Founding engineer or early engineering hire experience
- Daily user of modern AI coding tools (Cursor / Claude / similar)
- Experience in high-autonomy environments
- Strong ownership of architecture decisions
- 0→1 product engineering experience
- Demonstrated autonomy shipping complex systems
- Strong startup urgency and execution speed
- Mission-driven motivation
- Low ego and collaborative style
- Ability to operate with minimal structure
- Strong technical judgment across backend systems
- Bias toward action
Responsibilities
- Own backend-heavy full-stack product domains end-to-end
- Build production AI agents automating insurance brokerage workflows
- Design and ship carrier integrations (portal automation, APIs, EDI/SFTP pipelines)
- Build workflow orchestration systems using modern agentic infrastructure
- Develop backend systems for data ingestion, normalization, automation, and monitoring
- Contribute across TypeScript/Python backend and React frontend surfaces
- Partner directly with product and ops teams to identify automation opportunities
- Ship production-grade AI systems replacing manual internal workflows
- Build browser automation and workflow execution pipelines
- Help define engineering standards for future team scaling
- Operate autonomously in a high-ownership startup environment
- Work closely with leadership on architecture and roadmap decisions
Benefits
- Base salary: $180,000 – $275,000
- Equity: 0.5%–1.5%
- Visa sponsorship available
- Full onsite role (SF preferred, NYC possible)
- Founding-level ownership opportunity
- Direct access to founders and engineering leadership
- High-impact AI-native product work
- Strong long-term equity upside
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
