Shepherd
Software Engineer, Backend
San Francisco · Exec
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 393 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsFull-Stack DevelopmentPostgreSQLRedisGraphQLSparkProduct StrategyLeadershipMentoringActuarial ScienceUnderwritingRenewable Energy
About the role
- You aren't afraid of ambiguity, and it may even excite you
- You enjoy shipping product every day (maybe multiple times a day) while maintaining high quality standards
- You enjoy wearing multiple hats while solving problems; as an engineer, product manager, and designer
Responsibilities
- You will lead major initiatives and own a large area of Shepherd's product experience, in each vertical while driving technical decisions for your domain
- You will work across the stack, even across different disciplines (e.g. underwriting, design, product management)
- You will collaborate closely with PM, Mo (CTO) and the insurance team (underwriters, actuaries and more!)
- You thrive on ownership, drive results, and care deeply about both technical excellence and customer impact.
Requirements
- You have strong opinions, weakly held - you advocate for your ideas but adapt when presented with better solutions
- You have some experience with insurance - either from a prior InsurTech role or actuarial role
- You have experience working with Javascript/Typescript (backend and/or frontend)
- You have at least 5+ years of working experience (preferably as a full-stack engineer) with a track record of delivering high-impact products
Benefits
- 100% contribution to top-tier health, dental, and vision
- 🥕 Fertility benefits and family building support
- Flexibility to take the time off, recharge, and perform
- 🏥 Premium Healthcare
- 🏖️ Unlimited PTO
Company info
- 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
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