Member of the Technical Staff - Product Engineer

Stand Insurance•San Francisco, CA

5d•$235,000 - $295,000

About The Position

We’re hiring a Member of the Technical Staff - Product Engineer with engineering excellence - someone who has owned large product surfaces, navigated tradeoffs, and is comfortable being accountable for outcomes, not just implementations. This role is not narrowly scoped. You’ll own critical systems across the insurance lifecycle, from core workflows (policy, underwriting, claims, payments) to entirely new products like wildfire preparedness inspections, risk monitoring, and customer-facing mitigation tools. You’ll work closely with applied scientists, product leaders, and stakeholders to translate complex domain problems into shippable systems, decide what to build, not just how to build it, and productize models, pipelines, and tools that directly impact risk, revenue, and customer behavior. This is a high-leverage role with broad surface area and real influence over product direction.

Requirements

Proven experience owning and shipping production systems using a modern programming language (Python, Ruby, Rust, etc.)
Experience deploying, operating, and monitoring applications on modern PaaS or cloud platforms (Heroku, Vercel, Railway, etc.)
Track record of end-to-end project ownership, including direct work with stakeholders and end users
Comfort learning new tools, frameworks, and domains quickly
Practical experience using LLMs to improve engineering workflows, system design, or developer productivity
Genuine interest in Stand’s mission and the real-world impact of the work
Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. Stand does not sponsor new work visas. We can consider candidates on TN visas, O-1A visas, or H-1B transfers with three years or more remaining.

Nice To Haves

Experience in regulated or risk-sensitive industries (insurance, fintech, health, climate, infra)
Experience operating in early-stage or scaling startups
A pragmatic agile mindset focused on outcomes over ceremony

Responsibilities

Own critical systems across the insurance lifecycle, from core workflows (policy, underwriting, claims, payments) to entirely new products like wildfire preparedness inspections, risk monitoring, and customer-facing mitigation tools.
Translate complex domain problems into shippable systems.
Decide what to build, not just how to build it.
Productize models, pipelines, and tools that directly impact risk, revenue, and customer behavior.
Take responsibility for entire problem spaces - architecture, quality, reliability, and long-term evolution.
Partner with stakeholders to shape scope, define success metrics, and make informed tradeoffs under uncertainty.
Move between zero-to-one builds and hardening existing systems, knowing when speed matters and when rigor matters more.
Use modern tools, including LLMs and agents, to increase team velocity and reduce operational drag.
Explain decisions, surface risks early, and create shared understanding across technical and non-technical partners.