Backend Engineer

Adapt; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A venture-backed startup in San Francisco seeks highly autonomous engineers for a foundational role in building an agentic platform for the Property & Casualty insurance industry. Candidates should have 4+ years of professional backend or full-stack experience and a passion for solving complex technical challenges. Responsibilities include working with a team, defining the tech stack, and contributing to team culture. The position is full-time in our SF office, and relocation to the Bay Area is required.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional backend/full-stack engineering experience.
• Experience working on large-scale open-source projects.
• Early-stage startup experience in unstructured, fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the team and early customers to build a world-class agentic platform.
• Solve technical problems from scratch, owning solutions through the development lifecycle.
• Help define the tech stack/architecture for an evolving product.

Skills

Backend engineering

Full-stack engineering

AI product development

System integration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

TypeScript

JavaScript

Job description

Adapt API is a venture-backed startup building the agentic operations layer for Property & Casualty (P&C) insurance.

Today, walking into an insurance agency is like stepping into a time machine. Filing cabinets, fax machines, piles of incoming and outgoing mail. What you don't see is that even for the parts that have been "digitized", needless manual work abounds. Few systems communicate directly, leading to endless copy-pasting from emails to various proprietary web portals/desktop apps and back again.

Carrier by carrier, process by process, Adapt is bringing each of those manual and error-prone workflows into our comprehensive agentic platform.

The implementation details are subject to change, but this is our north star, and the future we envision isn't possible without it.

🔍 What we're looking for

We are seeking highly autonomous engineers excited about owning the design and implementation of end-to-end workflows for a complex, high-stakes industry and playing a foundational role in the formation of the company.

✅ Responsibilities

• You’ll work closely with the team and early customers to build a world-class agentic platform.
• You’ll solve hard technical problems from scratch, owning the solution through the entire development lifecycle.
• You’ll help define the tech stack/architecture for an evolving product — we’re technology agnostic and focus using the right tool for the job.
• You’ll contribute to the creation of the team culture, as well as internal tooling and processes.

🛠 Role requirements

• 4+ years professional backend/full-stack engineering experience. Working on large-scale open-source projects works too. You’ve played significant roles in either crafting AI products, building processing pipelines, or systemic integration of external systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent
• Early‑stage startup experience (or other similar unstructured, fast‑paced environment)
• Live in or willing to relocate to the Bay Area to work full‑time in our SF office

💫 Nice to haves

• Experience with web scraping, email scraping, browser automation — in general just getting data creatively out of hard‑to‑reach places
• TypeScript/JavaScript experience in a professional or large‑scale OSS setting. If you have a comprehensive side project you think is equivalent, send it our way! Clear, concise, and extensible code is important to us and collaborating with others is often a forcing function to that end.
• Experience integrating with low tech industries, or other time spent integrating with poorly documented, antiquated APIs (and sometimes even a lack thereof).
• Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications? Please drop us a line anyway - we look forward to hearing from you!