As a Software Engineer, you will build AI-powered insurance products, write high-quality code, lead projects, and define best practices.
Join our team and accelerate your career.
Life insurance is a complex and consequential purchase that impacts hundreds of millions of Americans. With our powerful and integrated digital tools, expert support, and leading insurance products, we empower advisors to better serve their clients, grow their businesses, and bring the future of the industry to life.
We are a high-growth, AI-driven brokerage backed by $35M from top-tier investors, including Thrive Capital (major investors in OpenAI, SpaceX, Stripe, Instagram, Spotify, and Slack), New York Life, and Northwestern Mutual.
Join a passionate team of product-minded technologists and insurance professionals who are at the leading edge of a massive industry. Make a tangible difference in people's lives and help deliver our mission to help everyone protect what matters most through advanced technology and tailored advice.
This is a senior individual contributor role with leadership scope. Depending on the person, the role can grow into a design leader over time or work in support of design leadership as we scale the team.
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
Modern Life New York, New York, USA Office
New York, NY, United States, 10012
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