Software Engineer, Newfront
$101-200.5k
+ Offers Equity
Digital insurance brokerage
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Digital insurance brokerage
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$101-200.5k
+ Offers Equity
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 or MS in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
- 1 year of experience or relevant internships on software engineering and web application development at scale
- Strong programming fundamentals in one or more backend server languages (Java/Python/Ruby/Go/TypeScript/etc.)
- Experience with web development best practices such as continuous integration and continuous deployment
- Proficiency a database management system such as MySQL/PostgreSQL
- Experience with LLMs techniques and other related frameworks
- Ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to take a thoughtful, pragmatic, and efficient approach to problem-solving
- Passion to up-level yourself through curiosity, mentorship, and fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment
Desirable
- Experience using TypeScript is preferred
- Experience with JavaScript backend frameworks such as Express/Node.js/Nest.js is preferred
- Experience with data pipeline and data driven analytics
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a software engineer to join Newfront’s Total Rewards business unit that helps clients design competitive benefit packages that attract, retain, and reward top talent
- Our engineering team powers this business by building a platform that helps HR leaders and employees onboard, manage, understand, and use their benefits
- You’ll help design and scale systems that support workflows used by benefit consultants, business operations, and clients. We work on several key areas, including:
- Employee benefits data platform
- HR leader admin portal
- Employee-facing web and mobile applications
- Internal tools for Total Rewards professionals to service and market insurance
- New AI / LLM-powered agentic workflows to automate insurance operations and improve benefits usage
- Be a crucial contributor within the team, working through ambiguity, concept validation and implementing a best-in-class solution
- Collaborate with cross-functional design, product, and data science teams to design and deliver high-quality products and influence outcomes
- Write clean, well-tested code; participate in code reviews; and help keep our codebase maintainable and easy to work with
- Identify areas of improvement and drive opportunities on the web and mobile clients as well as the backend
- 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 the development process from ML model design and implementation to backend and frontend development
- Develop your technical skills and product understanding, and take on increasing ownership of features and components as you grow
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.
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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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