Founding Engineer

Founding Engineer

Location:

San Francisco, CA / New York, NY

On-site role requiring 5 days/week in the office.

Compensation: $175,000 – $250,000 Base + Competitive Founding Equity Total compensation: $175,000 – $300,000 depending on equity and candidate profile.

Visa:
Open to H-1B Transfers / OPT Transfers / New H-1B / TN Open to visa transfers and new visa sponsor ships.

Company Stage:
Seed / Early-Stage – AI-Native Healthcare Technology Company

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Health Insurance, Insur Tech, Enterprise Software, AI Agents, Benefits Technology

About the Company:

Our client is building an AI-native health insurance platform designed to transform how small businesses access and manage employee health benefits.

The company is replacing the traditional health insurance brokerage model with AI-powered workflows that automate complex brokerage and servicing processes while enabling human brokers to provide higher-quality, consultative guidance.

The platform uses AI agents to automate labor-intensive workflows including plan research, quoting, enrollment, and ongoing benefits servicing.

Backed by leading venture capital investors, the company operates as a small, talent-dense organization with a highly experienced founding team and a rapidly expanding engineering function.

As a Founding Engineer, you'll join a small engineering team and have significant ownership over product architecture, AI systems, user experience, and engineering culture.

This is an opportunity for a strong full-stack or backend-focused engineer who wants to build AI-native products from 0-to-1 while solving high-impact problems in healthcare and insurance.

• Build and iterate on agentic AI systems that automate complex health insurance brokerage workflows
• Develop AI agents that support broker analysis and operational workflows
• Build systems that help service operators serve significantly more clients at higher quality
• Own full-stack product development from initial concept through production
• Design backend services and APIs using Python
• Build frontend applications and user experiences using Type Script and React
• Integrate LLMs into production applications
• Build and maintain AI agent orchestration systems
• Design evaluation systems for AI agents
• Develop guardrails and reliability infrastructure for high-stakes AI workflows
• Build systems that monitor and evaluate AI agent performance
• Develop tools and workflows using MCP and modern AI infrastructure
• Translate complex insurance workflows into scalable software systems
• Work directly with brokers and internal service operators to understand operational pain points
• Build tools that improve broker productivity and customer experience
• Design systems capable of handling complex and messy real-world insurance data
• Build AI-powered workflows for plan research and comparison
• Develop systems supporting quoting and enrollment workflows
• Build automation for ongoing customer servicing
• Work across the product stack based on the highest-priority company needs
• Make architecture and technology decisions in a rapidly evolving environment
• Own technical projects from ideation through production deployment
• Build reusable infrastructure and engineering patterns as the company scales
• Help define the technical architecture for a rapidly growing AI-native product
• Establish engineering standards and development practices
• Contribute to engineering culture as the team scales
• Collaborate closely with the founding team and engineering leadership
• Balance rapid iteration with reliability and quality
• Solve ambiguous technical problems using first-principles thinking
• Work closely with internal stakeholders to rapidly validate and improve products
• Build products that directly impact how small businesses and employees access healthcare benefits
• Help shape the long-term engineering and AI strategy of the company

• 2–8 years of experience in software engineering or related technical roles
• Experience owning products or major projects end-to-end
• Experience in full-stack or backend-focused engineering roles
• Strong experience building and shipping production software
• Experience…