Software Engineer

Modern Life

$150K — $200K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in software development and production deployment
  • Proficient in building and shipping AI agents and automation solutions
  • Strong understanding of operating AI systems at scale, including monitoring and evaluation
  • Product-minded with a focus on user empathy and curiosity
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguous and fast-paced environments

Responsibilities

  • Build and scale AI-powered products transforming insurance advisory work
  • Write high-quality, reliable code for production environments
  • Lead complex projects and make key tech vs business decisions
  • Assess trade-offs to balance immediate and long-term value delivery
  • Establish and maintain engineering standards across codebases

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape company culture and best practices from an early stage
  • Impactful role in defining the AI platform for insurance distribution
  • Engagement with intelligent, agent-driven solutions for insurance advisors
  • Innovative environment within a fast-growing startup in insurtech
Full Job Description
What You'll Do

  • Build and scale AI-powered products that are transforming how insurance advisors work - from intelligent case management to automated underwriting workflows
  • Write high-quality, well-tested code that runs smoothly in production
  • Contribute to and lead complex projects, and make business vs technology decisions during all phases of the project lifecycle
  • Weigh trade-offs and focus on value delivery. A fast-paced startup demands making trade-offs that balance the near term and long term value add of solutions.
  • Help create and uphold our engineering standards and bring consistency to the codebases and processes you build and encounter


Your Impact

  • Shape the best practices, product, and more broadly the culture of the company from an early stage. Your DNA will be deep into what and how we build
  • Help define and build the AI platform that is setting the standard for how technology transforms insurance distribution
  • Create intelligent, agent-driven solutions that help insurance advisors across the full stack of advice and distribution
  • Set the standard for quality and design in an industry that is ripe for innovation


About You

  • You have 5+ years of experience as a builder shipping to production
  • You're product-minded and deeply curious and empathetic about your users
  • You've shipped AI agents and automations to production and understand what it takes to operate them reliably at scale, including observability, evaluation, and monitoring
  • You thrive in a dynamic and fast-growing environment with a high degree of ambiguity
  • You're genuinely excited about tackling hard technical and product problems


Bonus Points

  • You've worked as (and loved being) a founding or early engineer
  • You have experience at an insurtech, healthtech or broader fintech company
  • You've helped build a successful, fast-growing, product-focused startup
  • You're excited to share your side projects with us and what you learned from them


$150,000 - $200,000 a year

At this time, we are unable to offer H-1B visa sponsorship for this role. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future visa sponsorship.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

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