Member of Technical Staff (Remote)

Coverwatch; Union (NJ); Remote; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity up to 1%

World-class team

Job summary

Coverwatch, a remote-first AI-native commercial insurance broker, is seeking a senior staff+ IC to own the technical direction of a large portion of the platform. You'll work with the founders and customers from day one, shaping the product and its architecture.

Our stack includes Next.js, Python, Temporal; you will ship end-to-end features, design systems, and build real-world AI workflows used by brokers to manage risk.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production software experience with backend architecture and system design.
• Experience with workflow orchestration (Temporal) and AI-enabled workflows.
• Experience building agentic automations and integrations with orchestration frameworks.
• Ability to work directly with founders and customers to shape the product.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction for a large part of the platform and product.
• Ship end-to-end features autonomously from concept to production.
• Design and architect systems from scratch to scale with the business.
• Build real-world AI workflows used by brokers to manage risk.
• Collaborate directly with brokers and customers to iterate on outcomes.
• Continuously seek processes and tooling improvements to boost efficiency.

Skills

Backend architecture

System design

Temporal

Agentic AI

LangChain

Pydantic AI

AGNO

Tools

LangChain

Pydantic AI

AGNO

Job description

View all jobs Member of Technical Staff (Remote) Remote (EU) Engineering Remote Full-time AtCoverwatch we are building the next-generationAI-native commercial insurance broker. Commercial insurance is a$1T marketwhere the core work still runs on email, PDFs, spreadsheets, and manual labor. Our technology enables us to offer better coverage faster and win against the40,000 traditional commercial insurance brokersin the US. We’re a team of2nd time founders (ex-YC, Pear VC)who previously built a tech-enabled services company, and worked at companies like Google, Goldman Sachs etc.

The Role

This is a rare opportunity. This is a senior / staff+ IC role where you'll be working directly with the founders and will be owning the technical direction for a large part of the platform and product. You’ll be on the ground floor reinventing a heavily manual industry from day one. Your decisions willshape the technical DNA of the company and the future of the insurance industry.You’ll work directly with the founders and customers every day. Our product:

• Internal tooling and AI agents to automate end-to-end insurance workflows.We are our own customer and we iterate fast to turn manual operation into software.
• Customer-facing portal and apps.A modern home to manage insurance policies, renewals and claims. We also build products that intergrate into customers’ systems of record to help with sales.

At Coverwatch you will:

• Ship end-to-end features autonomously.You'll take a problem from conversation to production without hand-holding. Design it, build it, deploy it, own it.
• Design and architect systems from scratch.You'll make foundational technical decisions that compound as we grow.
• Build real world AI used daily.You’ll prototype, productionize and evaluate AI workflows that will be used by our brokers to manage risk.
• Work directly with brokers and customers.Understand the problem firsthand, watch your workflows in action and iterate based on real outcomes.
• Continuously looking for processes to improve. You will constantly be building adhoc tools to improve your own workflows, your team's workflows and our broker's workflows.

About you

Above all, you’re excited about taking on theschlep and working hard to reinvent an old industry. Technically, you have 5+ years of experience building production software, with strength in:

• Backend architecture, system design and writing clean, production-quality code
• Workflow orchestration with experience in durable execution frameworks like Temporal
• Agentic AI systems and LLM-based applications with experience in orchestration frameworks like langchain, pydantic-ai, agno etc
• Building and optimizing agentic code setups.
• Building agentic automations and workflows

You're fluent in AI-assisted development: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, custom MCP setups, the works. You use these tools to compound your existing strong technical skills.

Our Stack

• Frontend: Nextjs, React, Typescript
• Backend: Python, FastAPI, Temporal, Pydantic

Our offer

• Meaningful equityin an early stage company (up to 1%)
• World-class team:working directly with experienced founders who've built and scaled AI products
• Technical complexity:we have no shortage of hard problems to solve, automating a whole industry is no small feat

Compensation

The base pay range for this role is $110,000 – $140,000 per year.