Software Engineer - Product

Job Description

### **Location: San Francisco, CA**

**Work model:** On-site, 5 days/week

**Employment:** Full-time

**Experience:** 4 years

**Base salary:** $180K--$280K equity quarterly performance bonuses

**Visa:** Open to visa transfers (including OPT / H-1B transfers)

### About the role

We are looking for a **Product Engineer with 4 years of experience** to build and own AI-powered products that directly impact business KPIs.

This is a highly product-oriented engineering role: the engineer will work directly with sales, service, underwriting, and operations teams, identify business problems, turn them into scalable technical solutions, and ship extremely quickly.

The company operates at a **very fast pace --- prototypes and production features are expected to ship within hours or the same week rather than over long development cycles.**

### Key responsibilities

* Own one or multiple **business KPIs end-to-end** and drive measurable improvements through technology.
* Work directly with **non-technical stakeholders** across sales, service, underwriting, and operations.
* Translate business problems into scalable product and engineering solutions.
* Design and build **AI-powered and agentic systems**, including RAG, MCP, AI agents, and automation.
* Build across the **full stack**, rather than focusing exclusively on backend or frontend.
* Prototype, ship, measure, and iterate extremely quickly.
* Support production systems and participate in **on-call responsibilities**.

### Must-have profile

* **4 years of software/product engineering experience.**
* Strong hands-on engineering skills in **Python and/or TypeScript**.
* Experience building **production AI/LLM applications** , ideally including:

* RAG

* AI agents / agent frameworks

* MCP

* workflow automation
* Strong product mindset --- comfortable owning a **business outcome/KPI**, not just completing engineering tickets.
* Experience working directly with **business or non-technical stakeholders**.
* Ability to work across the stack and independently take a problem **from idea prototype production**.
* Comfortable working in a **very high-speed startup environment**.
* Willing to work **5 days per week from the San Francisco office**.
* Comfortable supporting live systems / participating in **on-call**.

### Strong plus

* Experience with **Voice AI**.
* AWS and/or GCP.
* Experience using **AI coding tools such as Cursor and Claude Code** as part of the daily development workflow.
* Startup / early-stage company experience.
* Experience building internal tools or automation for **sales, operations, underwriting, customer service, or other business teams**.
* Insurance / InsurTech experience.

### Tech stack

**Core:** Python, TypeScript

**AI:** RAG, Agent Frameworks, MCP, Voice AI

**Cloud:** AWS / GCP

**AI development tools:** Cursor, Claude Code

### About the client

Our client is an **AI-native commercial E\&S insurance brokerage** founded in 2024. Its proprietary technology supports the brokerage workflow from prospecting and quoting through binding and servicing.

**Team:** \~60 employees

**Industry:** Insurance / AI

**Funding:** $47M

**Location:** San Francisco Bay Area

**Interview Process** **:**  

AI Screening

Candidate Submission

60-min Remote Technical Screen

2--3h SF On-Site Super Day

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