Software Engineer, Newfront
Servicing Platform
$128.3-200.5k
+ Equity
More information about location
Digital insurance brokerage
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Digital insurance brokerage
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$128.3-200.5k
+ Equity
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Their mission is to bring insurance into the 21st century, innovating and transforming the industry on behalf of its customers.
Role
Who you are
- BS, MS or PhD in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
- 2+ years of professional experience on software engineering and web application development at scale
- Experience designing, building large systems at enterprise
- Strong programming and data engineering in one or more backend server languages (Java/Python/Ruby/Go/TypeScript/etc.)
- Experience with web development best practices such as container, docker, continuous integration and continuous deployment
- Proficiency with RDBMS such as MySQL/PostgreSQL
- Ability to effectively communicate with non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to take a thoughtful, pragmatic, and efficient approach to problem-solving
- Passion to up-level yourself and those around you through curiosity, mentorship, and fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment
Desirable
- Experience using TypeScript on the backend is preferred
- Experience with JavaScript backend frameworks such as Express/Node.js/Nest.js is preferred
- Experience with data pipeline and data driven analytics
- Experience with any of these DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Authorization, Authentication, Search Infrastructure (Elastic Search)
- Experience with deploying or leveraging ML model and LLM to power business. Having decent understanding of ML essentials and having a background to work and speak the same language with data scientists
- Experience with state-of-the-art LLMs techniques, models and vendors
- Experience with LLM and other related frameworks like Langchain, LLamaIndex
- Strong experience with popular AI/ML libraries and frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn)
What the job involves
- The Servicing Platform team is the core engineering organization sitting at the center of all programs of Newfront. Its mission is to build a world class platform to enable clients to create, manage, understand and use their insurance and empower insurance professionals to serve clients
- It is a high-impact org and owns multiple domains such as:
- Core insurance data platform to power all insurance products, operations and intelligence
- Admin ecosystem to empower insurance professional to service and marketing insurance
- Client facing ecosystem to empower clients to understand, manage and use their insurance and manage their risks
- Emerging AI / LLM powered applications to supercharge both clients and admin to automate insurance operations and usage
- Be a crucial contributor within Newfront’s Servicing Platform Engineering Team, working through ambiguity, concept validation and implementing a best-in-class solution. The team owns a large scope including but not limited to core insurance data foundation, end to end insurance servicing experience, and admin servicing tooling ecosystem. You will be participating in major initiatives across all domains
- Identify areas of improvement and drive foundation opportunities on the web and backend
- Collaborate with cross-functional design, product, and data science teams to design and deliver high-quality products and influence outcomes
- Follow data-driven approaches to iterate product features
- Help cultivate innovation and growth by contributing to cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams
- In the AI domain, implement the rapid prototyping of software applications applying AI / ML technologies. Serve as the software generalist and participate in development process from ML model design and implementation to backend and frontend development
Our take
Newfront Insurance is an insurance broker offering tech-driven risk management and insurance cover for businesses. It claims to provide fairer premiums using rich datasets to assess risk rather than the more traditional method of risk categories. The insurance industry has been slow to embrace digital innovation, but Newfront is a new insurtech firms aiming to transform the industry.
Spike Lipkin, CEO, was part of the original team at Opendoor and helped guide the start-up to a $3 billion valuation. At Opendoor, Lipkin experienced firsthand the difficulty of securing business insurance and recognized that the industry would greatly benefit from the use of AI. Newfront's ethos is customer-focused, and it aims to provide a fairer, more accessible experience for businesses.
Newfront merged with ABD Insurance, a B2B insurance provider focusing on employee benefits and financial services programs. Together, they are working to write $2 billion in premiums annually and occupy a more significant slice of the business insurance market. Funding is being invested into both US expansion and building the modern platform for clients, insurance professionals, and trading partners.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2022
$200m
LATE VC
Oct 2020
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $330.2m
Company benefits
- Insurance, Health & Wellness
- Health Insurance
- Financial & Retirement
- 401K Plan
- Family & Parenting
- Work From Home
- Vacation & Paid Time Off
- Gym Membership
- Commuter Checks & Assistance
Company HQ
South Beach, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Spike Lipkin
(CEO)After an MBA at Stanford, Spike spent a year as a Senior Consultant before 2 years at The Blackstone Group as an Investor. They left their role of 2 years at Opendoor.com in 2016 to co-found Newfront in 2017.
Gordon Wintrob
(CTO)Software Engineer at Cardspring, Engineering Manager at LinkedIn for 3 years.
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