Software Engineer

Adapt Insurance; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Above-market cash and equity

Opportunity to work in a startup environment

Potential to make a significant impact on the industry

Job summary

Adapt Insurance in San Francisco is looking for experienced backend/full-stack engineers to join the team. You will work in a rapidly-scaling startup environment, tackling challenging technical problems and owning solutions throughout the development lifecycle.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years of experience, a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, and a passion for automation and innovative engineering solutions.

Join us to build a cutting-edge agentic platform and shape our team culture!

Qualifications

• 4+ years professional backend/full-stack engineering experience.
• Experience with large-scale open-source projects.
• Early-stage startup experience in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Build a world-class agentic platform with the team.
• Solve hard technical problems from scratch.
• Define the tech stack and architecture for the product.

Skills

Backend engineering

Problem solving

Automation engineering

TypeScript/JavaScript

Web scraping

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Who we are

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.

Why you should join Adapt

• Opportunity to be a foundational team member to a rapidly-scaling post-PMF startup in a massive and largely untapped industry.

• Hard backend/automation engineering problems on day 1. Backend is all we do, and the projects you'll work on will be challenging and interesting.

• Above-market cash and equity

• We’ve raised funding from great investors including top fintech funds, ex-Plaid folks, and insurance industry insiders.

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!