About Our Client
This is a rare opportunity to become the founding engineering leader for an AI-native company attacking a multi-trillion-dollar market that has not been meaningfully digitized in decades. You will work directly with a repeat founder, own the technical foundation, and build the operating layer that can make commercial insurance more transparent, data-driven, and software-native.
- Largest pre-seed in insurtech history context: Backed by $8M at pre-seed for an ambitious infrastructure opportunity.
- Distribution from day one: The company has access to more than half of the target market at launch.
- AI-native from the start: The platform is being designed around modern data access, API orchestration, document reasoning, and agentic engineering workflows.
- Founder-market fit:The founder is a 3x successful founder who built and scaled a highly successful $500M platform in this space, was previously recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, and deeply understands the buyer, workflows, and market structure.
- Massive market timing: Commercial insurance remains a multi-trillion-dollar market still powered by fragmented data and manual renewal processes.
About the Opportunity
The Head of Engineering is the senior most technical role at the company and lead and grow the engineering team.
Our client is looking for a passionate, extraordinary engineering leader who sets the technical standard, defines how the team builds, and holds that bar as the company scales. This is a high-ownership, hands-on role with real decision-making authority and meaningful equity upside.
You will work directly with the founder from day one, shaping the infrastructure that becomes the data clearing layer for the largest undigitized financial market in the country. This role blends IC and leadership time: design, code, and ship, while defining how the engineering team operates and grows.
What You’ll Build
- A unified data ingestion and enrichment pipeline aggregating 20+ external APIs
- An AI-native engine that creates optimized risk pooling, replacing the opaque cycle that currently happens manually every renewal
- A portfolio management platform where companies organize, analyze, and act on their entire insurance portfolio
What We’re Looking For
We are looking for a passionate, extraordinary engineering leader who is genuinely excited about what AI unlocks and wants to build something that has never been built before.
- 8+ years of engineering experience including hands-on engineering leadership at a high-growth company; you have owned technical vision and driven it forward
- Former CTO, Head of Engineering, principal/staff engineer, or tech lead who has set standards and held them
- Deep experience building data-heavy platforms: ingestion pipelines, API orchestration, enrichment at scale, and asynchronous workflows
- Proven track record shipping distributed systems: pragmatic CI/CD, observability, SLOs, incident response, and infra-as-code
- AI-native engineer who builds with agentic coding tools. This role requires someone at the absolute forefront of AI-native development, someone who is constantly experimenting, building, and pushing new tools to their limits.
Mindset & Approach:
- Client-facing and polished; comfortable presenting to and building relationships with enterprise owners and insurance carriers
- Hyper-communicative and detail-oriented: you write clearly, plan carefully, and keep stakeholders aligned without process bloat
- Thrives in a collaborative in-office environment in New York City
Compensation
- Aggressive base (series B – D level) plus significant founding-level equity package
Why Now
Commercial insurance is a multi-trillion-dollar market still running on opaque pricing, fragmented data, and manual workflows. The inputs to fix it (modern data access, scalable infrastructure, AI that can reason over documents) just converged. No infrastructure layer has emerged yet. This creates a unique window to rebuild insurance into something transparent, data-driven, and software-native, and to define what it becomes.