Software Engineer, Modern Life
$150-180k
Life insurance brokerage for advisors
Job no longer available
Life insurance brokerage for advisors
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$150-180k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help everyone protect what matters most.
Role
Who you are
- You have 5+ years of experience as a builder shipping to production
- You’re product-minded and deeply curious and empathetic about your users
- You have excellent self-management, sense of ownership, and organization
- You thrives in a dynamic and fast-growing environment with a high degree of ambiguity
- You’re genuinely excited about tackling hard technical and product problems
Desirable
- You’ve worked as (and loved being) a founding or early engineer
- You have experience at an insurtech, healthtech or broader fintech company
- You’ve helped build a successful, fast-growing, product-focused startup
- You’re excited to share your side projects with us and what you learned from them
What the job involves
- Write high-quality, well-tested code that runs smoothly in production
- Contribute to and lead complex projects, and make business vs technology trade-offs during all phases of the project lifecycle
- Weigh trade-offs and focus on value delivery. A fast-paced startup demands making trade-offs that balance the near term and long term value add of solutions. At Modern Life, we aim to design robust systems, but try not to let the perfect be the enemy of the good
- Help create and uphold our engineering standards and bring consistency to the codebases and processes you build and encounter
Our take
Life insurance shouldn’t be a chore. That’s the ideology behind Modern Life, a tech-boosted brokerage that aims to streamline and simplify the process of buying life insurance for advisors and clients.
Its selling point is the cohesive and user-friendly nature of platform, which assists right through from advice to purchase. As well as allowing for easier management of appointments and submissions, it provides data-driven quoting and comparisons, has partnerships with over 15 major insurance carriers and is licensed in every US state. All this allows Modern Life to create a properly centralized platform, holding a broad range of options for clients and helping advisors to work more effectively.
The life insurance market has largely relied on legacy tech for a number of years. Modern Life is a new and innovative player in the field, and has already struck a chord with advisors across the country. It’s focusing investment on widening its range of partnerships and options for clients.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2025
$20m
SERIES A
Aug 2022
$15m
SEED
Total funding: $35m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO: Whether it’s surfing, family trips, or your garden that’s calling – life is for living, so we give you more time for it
- Hybrid office culture: You get the best of a modern office environment, plus the flexibility of working from home when you want to
- Team events: Get to know the crew at team meals, events, happy hours, offsites, and group celebrations.
- Quality health insurance
- Of course, life insurance – and we’ve got just the people to help you with that
Company HQ
Nolita, New York, NY
Leadership
Michael Konialian
(CEO)Previously worked at US Department state as Foreign Affairs Officer. Later joined McKinsey as Engagement Manager. Also, worked at CoverWallet, first as Director of Product and then as VP and General Manager.
Jack Arenas
(CTO)Previously worked as an analyst at Goldman Sachs and a Software Engineer at TripleLift. Was a co-founder and CTO at Petal, where they still work as an advisor. Also currently still an advisor at Gilgamesh Ventures and lockrMail.
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