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# Senior/Staff Backend Engineer

- **Company:** DAVID J KELLEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000 - $260,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Web Scraping, Data Mining, Cursor, Home Automation, Web Browsers, Node.Js, Microsoft Copilot, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Claude Code, Backend
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-staff-backend-engineer-san-francisco-ca--b5ea74a0-09c9-4532-9064-595f8dcdb645

## About the Role

Automation, Funding, Startup, Revenue Growth, Insurance, Home Automation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Customer/Client Research, Web Browsers, Node.js, * 5-15 years of backend software engineering experience, with meaningful time at a startup

 * Recent experience (within the last 4 years) at an early-stage, VC-backed startup, ideally as a founding engineer, early IC, or core team member
 * Strong proficiency in a modern backend language, TypeScript preferred
 * Active daily use of modern AI coding tools
 * A proven track record of building and shipping production backend systems
 * Genuine curiosity and a real interest in talking directly with customers
 * A clear, articulable desire to work at an early-stage startup
 * Able to work on-site 5 days a week in San Francisco

Nice to Haves

 * Background in insurance, finance, or healthcare
 * Experience with browser automation, web scraping, or creative data extraction

## Description

You would own the design and implementation of end-to-end automated workflows for insurance operations: connecting to disparate, low-tech systems, building dependable automation on top of them, and iterating directly with customers. This is foundational, backend-heavy work with real ownership from day one and no product-manager layer between you and the problem.

What you'll be doing

 * Design and ship end-to-end agentic workflows that automate real insurance operations such as collections, renewals, and carrier integrations
 * Integrate with numerous disparate, often low-tech systems and build reliable, high-quality interactions on top of them
 * Work directly with customers to gather feedback, iterate, and translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders
 * Contribute greenfield engineering on top of an existing browser-automation layer
 * Solve complex system-design problems collaboratively in a high-stakes domain

Tech stack: TypeScript, Node.js, modern AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot), browser automation