Full Stack Engineer

Tailwind Insurance Systems

$90K — $120K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years experience in full-stack or backend-heavy applications.
  • Proficient in Java or willing to learn quickly; Spring Boot experience preferred.
  • Experience with React or similar frontend frameworks.
  • Comfortable working with APIs, orchestration systems, or data pipelines.
  • Startup-oriented with a proactive mindset towards shipping and fast learning.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement backend services in Java / Spring Boot for insurance automation workflows.
  • Build full-stack features covering APIs, backend logic, and frontend UI using React.
  • Collaborate with AI engineers to integrate LLM-powered extraction and automation pipelines.
  • Work closely with product and design teams on user-facing features for brokers and carriers.
  • Help scale the workflow orchestration system serving 50+ customers and over 1M annual workflows.
  • Contribute to engineering best practices, architecture decisions, and code reviews.

Benefits

  • Impactful work that transforms how brokers handle renewals.
  • Opportunity to ship to production daily, fostering a fast-paced development environment.
  • Career growth potential in an early role as the company scales its engineering and product teams.
  • Flexible hybrid culture promoting high collaboration with designated focus days.
  • Join an elite team with a proven track record from successful tech companies.
Full Job Description
About the Role

As a Full Stack Engineer, you'll work across Tailwind's core application and backend systems, shipping features that directly power our insurance automation platform.

This role is perfect for someone who enjoys working end-to-end - from APIs to UI - and wants to build in a fast-moving, high-impact startup environment.

What You'll Do
  • Design and implement backend services in Java / Spring Boot for insurance automation workflows.
  • Build full-stack features spanning APIs, backend logic, and frontend UI (React).
  • Collaborate with AI engineers to integrate LLM-powered extraction and automation pipelines.
  • Work closely with product & design on user-facing features for brokers and carriers.
  • Help scale our workflow orchestration system (50+ customers  1M+ annual workflows).
  • Contribute to engineering best practices, architecture decisions, and code reviews.


What Makes You a Great Fit
  • 2+ years of experience building full-stack or backend-heavy applications.
  • Proficiency in Java or interest in learning it quickly (Spring Boot experience a plus).
  • Experience with React or similar frontend frameworks.
  • Comfort working with APIs, orchestration systems, or data pipelines.
  • Startup mindset: bias toward shipping, iteration, and learning fast.
Why You Should Work Here
  • Impact: Every feature you ship transforms how brokers handle renewals.
  • Speed: Ship to production daily in a
  • Career growth: Early role = huge upside as we scale engineering and product orgs.
  • Hybrid culture: High-collaboration office time balanced with focus days.
  • Elite Team: Our core team has worked together 3 times now, hailing from Carta ($7B) and AppDirect ($2B) and includes veterans from Ramp, Apple, Salesforce and C3 AI - people who know what great product looks like, and what it takes to build it fast.

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