Senior/Staff Backend Engineer, Submission Processing
About The Position
The company is a venture-backed AI company building professional-grade software for the insurance industry. Its platform helps insurers automate and improve workflows across underwriting, claims, pricing, operations, and distribution. Its products are in production with leading insurers. The Senior/Staff Backend Engineer will join the Submission Processing team and work at the intersection of AI and backend engineering. The role involves designing systems, making architectural decisions amid ambiguity, and helping set the team’s technical direction. The engineer will build and scale LLM-based systems that process billions of unstructured data points daily, extract precise information, and surface insights that insurers use for high-stakes decisions. This is a small team where individual contributions have a substantial impact on the technology and business. The position is listed as remote in the United States, with a remote or hybrid option in New York. Compensation is $192,000–$314,000 base, plus a significant equity options package. The posting also describes benefits including 20 days of annual PTO, fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance, an employer 401(k) contribution, a healthy living/gym stipend, a mobile phone stipend, continuing education credits, and global company offsites.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience.
- Strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving.
- Experience working with LLMs in production and understanding of deploying them at scale.
- Experience with AWS, serverless technologies such as Lambda and EC2, asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments.
- Knowledge of Python, the company’s main programming language; candidates with strong object-oriented programming backgrounds in other languages are also considered.
- Comfort working with relational databases; PostgreSQL experience is preferred.
- Ability to take ownership and drive projects to completion with minimal oversight.
- Proactive communication skills.
- Ability to experiment, measure results, and iterate quickly.
- Strong engineering craft, hustle, and persistence.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with document pipelines and processing large amounts of data.
- Experience with PostgreSQL.
Responsibilities
- Design systems and make architectural decisions amid ambiguity.
- Help set the technical direction for the Submission Processing team.
- Build and scale LLM-based systems that process large volumes of unstructured data, extract precise information, and surface insights for insurers.
- Own work end to end and drive projects to completion with minimal oversight.
- Experiment with ideas, measure results, and iterate on difficult, unsolved problems.
- Communicate proactively, raise blockers, ask questions, and keep stakeholders informed.
Benefits
- Significant equity options package.
- 20 days of PTO annually.
- 100% covered medical insurance.
- 100% covered dental and vision insurance.
- 401(k) with employer contribution regardless of employee contribution.
- Healthy living/gym stipend.
- Mobile phone stipend.
- Continuing education credits.
- Global company offsites.
- Hybrid work environment.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
