Fullstack Job: Fullstack Engineer at Seed Stage Insurance Startup

Who is Recruiting from Scratch:

Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire. We work with companies funded by the best investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Tiger Global Management, A16Z, Accel, DFJ, and more. If you are a fit, the team will reach out to you about this role or any others that may be a fit for our clients.

About Our Client

They're a fully-digital insurance company focused on small businesses. They develop their own unique insurance products from the ground up, and they combine that with software that automates the process to get covered and file claims. And they give business owners the tools they need to operate their business with less risk. As you can probably tell, they have a big goal and there is tons to do! :)

Their founding team has a track record in InsurTech and product development DNA, having most recently built a startup with 50 employees, serving the largest insurance companies in the world, and having raised over $39M in venture capital. You’ll be able to focus on the difficult task of building a world-class product based on market feedback from their customers and partners.

They want to build a world-class product and engineering culture in the Bay Area, and they’d like members of these teams to work in-person at least a few days per week. They trust that you’ll get your work done, the in-person is mostly about team building and culture.

Responsibilities

- You'll own the frontend architecture of their app. How do they keep a record of all changes and all data fields that go into insurance rate calculations? What’s the API between the frontend and backend look like? You will work closely with engineering, and product to understand the use cases and iterate on the backend.

- You'll ship frequently as they iterate on the product. There's a lot of stuff they need to build! They're also probably not going to get features right the first time, so they're going to need to iterate quickly.

- You'll delete and refactor a lot of code. It’s important to write code and ship, but it’s also important to remove code and make the codebase easier to work on. At our client, they care about making sure the codebase is well structured and as simple as possible so they can stay motivated and not feel drained after a day’s worth of work.

- You'll set the tone for Frontend. As an early engineer, they will be looking to you to help realize their vision when it comes to the backend. You'll get to have a lot of say in engineering practices and how the backend is architected.

About you

- You're a hacker. You have substantial experience building nontrivial applications. You're passionate about the craft of engineering and want to be on a team where people feel the same. They do not require a college degree.

- You're comfortable sharing drafts, getting feedback, and iterating. You have experience working closely with others and changing course based on feedback.

- You’re scrappy. You know what it takes to ship high-quality production software, but you’re also happy taking judicious shortcuts and even deliberately incurring tech debt to get the job done.

- You know your way around building Backends. You have 2+ years of shipping backend code that other people use.

MUST BE LOCATED IN SAN FRANCISCO, CA OR BE WILLING TO RELOCATE

Benefits: PTO, healthcare, and more!

Base Salary: $140k to $175k