Founding Engineer, Transportation Insurance Platform

Beagle Button Ltd; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision benefits

Based in Boston – in office 5-6 days a

Job summary

Beagle Button Ltd., through its Corgi division, is hiring a Founding Engineer to build the transportation stack and own critical technologies. You’ll mentor engineers, make foundational architecture decisions, and ship scalable production software connecting distribution, underwriting, pricing, and operations.

You will shape the quote-to-bind pipeline, embedded distribution, AI underwriting tools, and data infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years shipping production software in a high-growth startup or demanding environment.
• Ownership from idea through production, including product definition, APIs, deployment, and operation.
• Strong technical judgment to avoid overengineering and move quickly on reversible choices.
• Comfort across stack: React workflow, Node service, and Python data pipeline.
• Practical AI experience with document processing, evaluations, latency, and human-in-the-loop considerations.
• Product and commercial instinct to balance engineering decisions with business outcomes.
• High agency and clear communication, working directly with users and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define the division's architecture and engineering priorities with the core team.
• Build the policy lifecycle systems: quote, bind, issue, service trucking and business auto policies.
• Design embedded distribution APIs to connect with TMS, ELD providers, load boards, and partners.
• Develop AI underwriting using data sources like FMCSA, DOT data, loss runs, and MVRs.
• Create partner portals and workflows for brokers, MGAs, and other distribution partners.
• Create data pipelines for telematics, ELD, dashcams, and third-party data.
• Own production reliability, security, observability, and performance.
• Recruit and mentor engineers, establishing standards and accountable culture.

Skills

Technical leadership

System architecture

React/Node/Python

AI tooling experience

Product and commercial instinct

Communication

Ownership mindset

Job description

Beagle Button Ltd., through its Corgi division, is hiring a Founding Engineer to build the transportation stack and own critical technologies. You’ll mentor engineers, make foundational architecture decisions, and ship scalable production software connecting distribution, underwriting, pricing, and operations.

You will shape the quote-to-bind pipeline, embedded distribution, AI underwriting tools, and data infrastructure.