Vouch INC

Vouch INC

Principal Engineer

Chicago, IL (Hybrid) · Principal

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TypeScriptPythonAWSCloud PlatformsTerraformCI/CDDevOpsRESTLLMsAgentic AIPerformance ManagementCollaboration

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About the role

  • About Vouch: Vouch is the insurance broker that powers ambition.
  • We're a tech-enabled insurance advisory and brokerage purpose-built for growing companies in technology, life sciences, and professional services.
  • Our digital workflows reduce friction, speed up decisions, and give our clients the confidence to move faster.

Responsibilities

  • Own the platform that governs agent-built software.
  • You will take it from working extraction to adopted platform: scope its next milestone, build its plugin surface, operate and score the review seats, and prove it generalizes beyond the repository it was born in.
  • Our backend estate asserts "one service = one bounded context"; a handful of services actually implement ports and adapters; the rest is your brownfield.
  • You will turn design-doc DDD into enforced architecture - context maps, anti-corruption layers, boundary checks that run in CI - without freezing a team that ships daily.
  • Autonomy expands when the evidence says so, and you own the evidence.
  • Frontier models are daily instruments in how you build, and "the model can probably do this" is a hypothesis you test with an eval, not a hope you ship on.
  • You reason in writing. ADRs, design docs, review comments - decisions here live in documents, and you make arguments better by writing them down.
  • Vouch believes in putting our people first, and building a diverse team is at the front of everything we do.

Requirements

  • You are at home in more than one language ecosystem - e.g., systems-level work in Rust or a peer language, large-scale strictly-typed TypeScript, etc. - and you know which discipline each one demands.
  • You treat delivery machinery - CI/CD, environments, releases - as a product with users, and you can argue a migration in cost and risk rather than tool preference.
  • The measure of this seat is what the engineers and agents around you can safely do a quarter after you arrive.
  • You have experience in and passion for early-stage startups and/or high-growth environments
  • When we argue about where a boundary belongs, you are the other half of the argument.
  • You are a software architect.
  • You are an AI engineer.
  • You are a DevOps engineer.
  • You have run infrastructure other people depend on: infrastructure-as-code at organization scale, GitOps, container orchestration, secrets, observability-as-code - and a pager you did not hand back.

Nice to have

  • Typescript, Python, and/or Rust in production
  • A shipped record of brownfield modernization - strangler migrations, context extraction, boundary enforcement in CI
  • Durable-execution engines and event-driven systems with schema governance
  • Eval frameworks, LLM observability, and MCP
  • A background in insurance or other regulated categories
  • 🛜 Technology allowance
  • 📚 Company-sponsored personal and professional development
  • 🏫 L&D: Partnerships with Ethena and monthly Lunch & Learns

Skills

  • That moves the hard problems.
  • This is a principal-level individual contributor seat reporting directly to the
  • CTO, with a mandate that spans our estate:
  • The short version:

Compensation

  • Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry and are part of our total compensation package, which also includes benefits and other perks.
  • We also include stock options in all compensation packages and believe all Vouch employees should have the opportunity to become owners in the company.
  • Individual pay decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skill set, location, and business need.
  • The pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Benefits

  • 💰 Competitive compensation and equity packages
  • ⚕️ Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 🍼 Parental leave
  • 🌴 Flexible vacation time
  • 🪷 Wellness allowance

Company info

  • We are not going to lay the whole system out in a posting - we would rather keep the details as our edge until you are across the table from us.
  • We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate the diversity of our growing team.

Equal opportunity

  • If you require reasonable accommodation to complete this application, interview, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to recruiting@vouch.us.
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