Back End Developer

The company is scaling its engineering team and hiring multiple Senior Backend Software Engineers / Staff Engineers to help define its technical foundation.

The Opportunity

This is a foundational backend role in a small, high?impact engineering team. You'll own the design and implementation of end?to?end agentic workflows, working directly with customers to automate operations and modernise a traditionally low?tech industry.

This is true zero?to?one engineering, high autonomy, high responsibility, and meaningful technical challenges from day one.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design and ship end?to?end backend workflows that automate core insurance operations (collections, renewals, carrier integrations)
• Integrate with disparate, low?tech, and unreliable external systems, building robust abstractions on top
• Work directly with customers to gather feedback, iterate quickly, and translate technical concepts for non?technical stakeholders
• Build greenfield backend systems, extending an existing browser automation platform
• Collaborate closely with the team through system design and whiteboarding in a high?stakes, regulated domain

• 4-15 years of backend engineering experience (ideal range: 7-15 years)
• Senior or Staff?level engineer with a proven record of shipping production systems
• Recent experience in an early?stage or Series A/B Start-up
• Background in insurance, fintech, healthcare, or other regulated industries is a plus

Core Technical Skills

• Strong backend engineering fundamentals
• Proficiency in modern backend languages (TypeScript preferred)
• Experience with automation, browser automation, web scraping, or creative data extraction
• Actively using modern AI?assisted development tools such as Claude Code or Cursor
• Experience designing systems that interact with inconsistent or messy external data sources

Nice to Haves

• Experience with Python, Ruby, or JavaScript
• Familiarity with agentic workflows or AI?driven automation
• Exposure to infrastructure or systems supporting high?reliability automation

Ways of Working

• Highly autonomous, curious, and product?oriented
• Comfortable owning projects end to end with minimal process overhead
• Enjoys working directly with customers
• Clear motivation for early?stage Start-up environments
• Preference for depth, progression, and impact over frequent job changes

• ???? $180K-$260K base salary
• ???? 0.2%-0.4% equity
• ???? Recently completed Series A funding round
• ???? Founding?engineer?level scope and ownership
• ???? Small, senior team with direct access to leadership
• ???? 5 days on?site in San Francisco
• ?? Relocation support available
• ???? Visa sponsorship available (H1B transfer, TN)

Why Join?

• Help define the agentic operations layer for an industry still running on manual workflows
• Join at a critical post Series?A scaling moment
• Solve technically difficult, real world problems with immediate impact
• Build infrastructure that will shape the company for years to come

HireQ Talent are partnering with a recently Series A?funded, high?growth technology company building the agentic operations layer to disrupt a whole industry, a multi?trillion?dollar market still reliant on manual workflows, legacy systems, and fragmented data.