Founding Software Engineer: Lead Tech & Scale Impact

am specialty insurance group; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

PTO

Job summary

am specialty insurance group is seeking a Founding Software Engineer to own and evolve our full technical stack. You will report directly to the CEO and have significant influence over architecture decisions, tooling, and product direction.

This is a high-autonomy role for someone who wants to build something meaningful from the early stages and grow toward leadership. You will build a full-stack application, design Shopify integrations, and own AWS infrastructure while collaborating with

Qualifications

• 2–6 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong full-stack proficiency: frontend and backend.
• Solid AWS experience (Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge, S3, API Gateway).
• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and React; Node.js for APIs.
• Familiar with relational and/or NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Supabase).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the full-stack application across frontend, backend, APIs, and infrastructure.
• Design and implement Shopify integrations with e-commerce platforms.
• Own AWS infrastructure: deployment pipelines, serverless functions, databases.
• Develop data models and workflows for insurance product delivery and analytics.
• Collaborate with the CEO to translate business priorities into technical execution.
• Implement A/B testing, analytics instrumentation, and conversion tooling.
• Establish engineering best practices: CI/CD, code review, testing, monitoring.
• Make architectural choices to scale platform from dozens to thousands of merchants.

Skills

Full-stack development

AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB)

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

Node.js

RESTful APIs

Databases (PostgreSQL/DynamoDB/Supbase

Communication

Self-starter

Tools

Shopify APIs

Terraform

CDK

CloudFormation

Supabase

AWS

Job description

am specialty insurance group is seeking a Founding Software Engineer to own and evolve our full technical stack. You will report directly to the CEO and have significant influence over architecture decisions, tooling, and product direction.

This is a high-autonomy role for someone who wants to build something meaningful from the early stages and grow toward leadership. You will build a full-stack application, design Shopify integrations, and own AWS infrastructure while collaborating with