Shepherd
Software Engineer, Full Stack
1y ago
170000 –220000 USD / yearUSApythonreactaws
Fullstack software engineer role at an AI-native commercial insurance platform focused on autonomous underwriting technology.
About the company
- We're a team of technologists and insurance enthusiasts, bridging the two worlds together. Check out our About page to learn more.
Responsibilities
- We’re hiring a Software Engineer to build the core infrastructure behind underwriting, pricing, and policy workflows. This is high-leverage work. The systems you build will directly impact revenue, loss ratios, and how we scale.
- You’ll work closely with engineers, actuaries, and underwriters to turn messy real-world logic into clean, durable systems. A lot of what we do starts in Excel and ends in production code. We care deeply about correctness, clarity, and speed.
- This is an ownership-heavy role. You’ll be expected to reason from first principles, ship quickly, and improve things that feel broken.
Conditions
- We’re still early. The decisions we make now will shape the company for years. If you want to build core infrastructure, work closely with domain experts, and help modernize a massive industry, this is a rare opportunity to do it at the right stage.
- 🏥 Premium Healthcare 100% contribution to top-tier health, dental, and vision
- 🥕 Fertility benefits and family building support
- 🏖️ Unlimited PTO Flexibility to take the time off, recharge, and perform
- 🥗 Daily lunches, dinners, and snacks We work together, and enjoy meals together too
Other
- Shepherd is an AI-native commercial insurance platform transforming how high-hazard industries get covered. Our mission is to make risk frictionless for the builders and operators shaping the physical world — protecting progress from concept through construction and into decades of operation.
- The infrastructure behind the AI boom — data centers, semiconductor fabs, renewable energy assets — has to be built and insured. But traditional carriers weren't built for this speed:
- Complex commercial construction projects routinely wait weeks for a single quote
- Legacy carriers rely on static applications and disconnected systems
- Brokers chase carriers through calls, emails, and resubmissions
- We built Shepherd to solve that. Our AI performs the same underwriting workflows in seconds, and integrates real-time data from construction technology partners — Procore, Autodesk, OpenSpace, DroneDeploy, and others — to see risk as it actually exists, not just as it was reported on a static form.
- We're pursuing the most ambitious technical vision in commercial insurance: fully autonomous underwriting. We're closing in on the first fully agentic submission in the industry — email in, price out, no human intervention until the last mile.
- With Shepherd, safety, speed, and quality no longer trade off against one another — they compound. We're building:
- Faster decisions
- Smarter, more accurate pricing
- Better risk outcomes for insureds who invest in safer practices
- We're not just modernizing insurance products. We're building the risk infrastructure for the next generation of financial services.
- In March 2026, Shepherd raised a $42M Series B — bringing total funding to over $60M — led by Intact Private Capital, the investment arm of one of the largest insurers in the world. Intact is not only our lead investor but also a carrier partner, a testament to the confidence the incumbent industry has in what we're building. Our investors:
- Intact Private Capital
- Spark Capital
- Costanoa Ventures
- Y Combinator
- Susa Ventures
- And several others
- Build and own backend systems that power pricing models, underwriting workflows, and policy lifecycle infrastructure
- Translate complex actuarial and underwriting logic into maintainable, production-grade services
- Improve the performance and reliability of our core rating and decision systems
- Contribute to architectural decisions that set the foundation for how we scale
- Work directly with domain experts to define the right abstractions, not just implement tickets
- Hold a high bar for code quality, simplicity, and long-term maintainability
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong backend experience in TypeScript, Python, or similar
- Experience designing APIs and working with data-heavy systems
- Comfort operating in ambiguous, high-responsibility environments
- A bias toward ownership and shipping
- Good judgment – knowing when to move fast and when to slow down
- Frontend
- React & Next.js
- Typescript
- GraphQL w/ Apollo
- Backend
- Node.js
- Postgres & Redis
- Typescript
- GraphQL APIs
- You like building foundational systems, not surface-level features
- You enjoy working at the intersection of business logic and engineering
- You want your work to directly impact company outcomes
- You prefer small teams, high standards, and real accountability
- You care about building something durable
- 📚 Professional Development Access to premium coaching, including leadership development
- 🐶 Dog-friendly office Plenty of dogs to play with and make friends with in the SF office