Staff Software Engineer, Nirvana Insurance
$230-266k
+ Equity
2 days a week in office
Commercial insurance & risk management
Job no longer available
Commercial insurance & risk management
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$230-266k
+ Equity
2 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To harness the power of data to revolutionize commercial insurance and enable a safer world.
Role
Who you are
- You are a strategic thinker with a strong ability to architect, design, and lead the implementation of dynamic business requirements into innovative product solutions that drive top-line growth
- Comfortable with ambiguity, you tackle complex technical challenges with precision, employing data and analytics to guide design decisions
- Your ability to delve deeply into technical details while maintaining a clear articulation of the broader system architecture inspires and guides engineering teams
- With a proven track record in delivering 0-1 projects, you excel at leading engineering efforts, ensuring technical alignment and fostering collaboration to achieve shared objectives
- Deep expertise in designing and implementing highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and distributed systems
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and cloud-native technologies (containers, serverless, etc.)
- Proficiency in Go, Java, or other programming languages. Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, data warehousing, and data streaming technologies
- 8+ years of experience in system architecture and software development, preferably within the financial systems/lending/insurance sector
Desirable
- Experience in pricing engineering and/or insurance industry
- Proficiency in analyzing real-time data to guide decision-making
- Experience in building models to predict future risks and opportunities
What the job involves
- The Pricing Engineering team is at the forefront of developing and managing both the pricing strategies and the dynamic Pricing Platform within Nirvana's solutions
- Our platform not only supports new business lines but also enhances pricing accuracy and reproducibility for existing ones, all within a unified framework
- In the commercial insurance industry, where pricing is predominantly influenced by anticipated future risks, we leverage 15B miles of telematics data as our differentiator alongside traditional factors, collaborating closely with the Data Science organization and business teams
- To support business expansion, we facilitate controlled experiments to explore various risk scenarios, aiming to boost the top line while maintaining a healthy profitability
- This approach empowers the business to offer more competitive quotes, ultimately propelling our financial success
- We have ambitious plans to directly influence the company’s top-line growth
- Design and lead the implementation of scalable pricing strategies to help drive top line for the business
- Architect Pricing platform to support launching experiments, analytics and tracking
- Drive innovation: Navigate and resolve technical challenges, providing clear guidance and vision for team members to inspire and lead innovative solutions
- Guide cross-functional engineering efforts, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives
Our take
Nirvana's insurance and risk management offerings are built to transform the commercial insurance industry, which is worth over $850B. It delivers predictive models that use real-time data and automation to generate instant quotes.
Targeting commercial fleets, the platform is powered by sensors that are already onboard most heavy trucks. This means that Nirvana's offering is accessible without vast onboarding fees, giving clients of all sizes the opportunity to protect themselves and improve customer safety.
The company received some serious funding at the end of 2026, bringing its valuation to $1.5B and is now set to accelerate development of what it describes sas the first AI-native operating system built specifically for insurance. And as pressure mounts across the commercial trucking sector, Nirvana is positioning itself not just as a faster insurer, but as a foundational AI platform capable of reshaping underwriting, claims and risk management at industry scale.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2025
$100m
SERIES D
Mar 2025
$80m
SERIES C
Total funding: $262m
Company HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Rushil Goel
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as VP of Product and Fleet GM at Samsara. Was also Senior Director/GM at Ola, and Co-Founder and CTO of AirCare Labs.
Alex Carges
(Co-Founder & Head of Insurance Product)Former Chief Actuary at Root Insurance and Associate Actuary at Allied World Assurance. Held a variety of roles at The Hartford - including FCAS, Director and Actuary, and Innovation Manager.
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