Staff Software Engineer

Corgi; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Corgi is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help build systems powering our insurance operations and core platforms. You will collaborate with product, operations, and leadership to design and ship software across underwriting, claims, finance, compliance, and internal tooling.

This is a hands-on role focused on rapid delivery, strong ownership, and measurable business impact, with exposure to senior leadership and core operators from day one.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proficient in Typescript, Python, React, FastAPI, Django, Flask, AWS.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and APIs.
• Personal projects or side projects demonstrating technical curiosity.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain internal and customer-facing software systems.
• Design backend services, APIs, and infrastructure.
• Work across the stack to ship new features and products quickly.
• Partner with non-technical teams to automate manual workflows.
• Improve reliability, performance, and scalability of existing systems.
• Contribute to technical architecture and engineering standards.
• Help shape engineering culture as we grow the team.

Skills

Strong software engineering

Ownership & execution

Curious & motivated

Comfortable with ambiguity

Tools

TypeScript

Python

React

FastAPI

Django

Flask

AWS

Job description

Corgi is a full-stack insurance carrier building better, faster insurance products for startups. We’re not a broker, so we underwrite and issue policies directly, with fewer handoffs and less friction. Cutting out intermediaries lets us tailor coverage to how companies actually operate and price risk more efficiently.

We build insurance products from the ground up, using AI and software to automate the workflows traditionally handled by large teams of brokers, underwriters, TPAs, accountants, and operations staff. Our goal is not to incrementally improve insurance, it is to rebuild the industry infrastructure itself.

We move quickly, care deeply about talent density, and hire people who want to solve difficult problems with unusually high ownership.

About the Role

We’re hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help build the systems that power our insurance companies and internal operations.

You will work closely with product, operations, and leadership to design and ship software across underwriting, claims, finance, compliance, and internal tooling. This is a highly hands-on role for someone who enjoys building quickly, owning outcomes, and working on problems with real business impact.

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain internal and customer-facing software systems.
• Design backend services, APIs, and infrastructure.
• Work across the stack to ship new features and products quickly.
• Partner with non-technical teams to automate manual workflows.
• Improve reliability, performance, and scalability of existing systems.
• Contribute to technical architecture and engineering standards.
• Help shape engineering culture as we grow the team.

Who You Are

• Strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and moving quickly.
• High ownership and bias toward execution.
• Curious, technical, and motivated by difficult problems.
• Excited to work closely with operators and domain experts.
• Interested in building systems that directly affect how businesses run.

Preferred Experience

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experienced in Typescript, Python, React, Fast API, Django, Flask, AWS.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and APIs.
• Experimented with personal projects of your own.
• Experience in fintech, insurance, or workflow automation is helpful but not required.

Why Join

• Build foundational systems for a new kind of insurance company.
• Work directly with senior leadership and core operators.
• High ownership and visibility from day one.
• Competitive compensation and equity.
• Opportunity to help define how insurance infrastructure is built in the AI era.