Principal Software Engineer, EvolutionIQ
AI Insurance SaaS
$280-325k
+ An annual bonus plan and company equity plan
More information about location
AI for insurance carriers
Open for applications
AI for insurance carriers
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$280-325k
+ An annual bonus plan and company equity plan
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To transform the insurance industry through a partnership between AI and human experts, ultimately making it more fair and affordable for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- The Pragmatic Architect: You have a startup-first mindset. You know when to build for 10x scale and when over-engineering will hinder the company. You value getting stuff done and iterative bridging over theoretical rewrites
- Product-Minded Engineer: You can translate high-level business needs into technical requirements. You think like a PM, are comfortable writing a PRD, and can effectively push back against stakeholders to ensure technical work delivers actual business value
- Battle-Tested Leader: You have seen the "1 to 10" scale-up journey. You possess the startup rigor to move fast, combined with the enterprise wisdom to build systems that don't break under massive volume
- Technically Polyglot: You have a deep software engineering foundation but understand the emerging agentic landscape (embeddings, RAG, retrieval) at a level that commands respect from Staff-level SMEs
- Expert Communicator: You are an over-communicator by nature. You break down silos and can explain complex technical trade-offs to both junior engineers and executive leadership
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer—a pragmatic visionary who will serve as a high-leverage force multiplier across the entire organization
- In this role, you will drive the technical vision for our new agentic products and the growth of our platform
- You will solve our most complex technical bottlenecks and serve as the critical bridge between executive strategy and engineering execution
- Your mission is to ensure our technical roadmap directly supports our product goals while leveling up the software engineering rigor across our 100+ person organization
- Architect the Agentic Future: Lead the transition from traditional data pipelines to event-driven, agentic systems that handle tens of millions of unstructured documents with world-class stability
- Bridge the Platform-Product Divide: Act as a critical interface to ensure the Platform team builds generalized, high-utility tools that solve real problems for Product Engineers
- Accelerate the SDLC: Use first principles thinking to leverage AI and agentic tools to accelerate the entire software development lifecycle—from testing to deployment—ensuring we maintain high throughput as we scale
- Drive Organizational Influence: Partner with the CTO and EVP of Product and Technology to align technical strategy with business outcomes. You will influence the adoption of modern technologies by building the right environment for teams to succeed
- Pragmatic Implementation: Rapidly turn ideas into thoughtful designs with multiple options and trade-offs. You will lead the "1 to 10" journey towards iterative, startup-ready progress
Our take
EvolutionIQ is a data-driven claim guidance platform for insurance providers. Its products combine structured and unstructured claim data with external third-party data to provide powerful claim guidance, aiming to modernise the claims operations process.
The company's offering is certainly an attractive one for businesses handling large volumes of these claims - the solutions aim to help insurance providers detect and prevent fraud without impacting their productivity and customer experience. Historically, the insurance industry has had access to vast amounts of data without optimising its use. EvolutionIQ's machine learning algorithms harness the learnings from every data point, enabling much more well-informed, actionable insights.
In 2024, CCC Intelligent Solutions acquired EvolutionIQ, which will continue to operate as a standalone company. Following a successful VC funding round, it reached a valuation of over $200 million and is now focused on further product development and international expansion. Off the back of this, it hopes to capture a larger slice of this $10 billion market.
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Insights
111% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2024
$20.2m
LATE VC
Jun 2023
$10.3m
LATE VC
Total funding: $60.4m
Company benefits
- Premium Medical Insurance Plan – Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Medical insurance
- 401K with employer matching
- Dental Coverage – Principal Financial
- Life insurance / ACDC coverage – Reliance Standard
- Vision – Reliance Standard
- Short Term and Long Term Disability – Unum
- Employee stock option plan
- $500 to get you started setting up your home office and $200 every year for upgrades after that
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Michael Saltzman
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Studied Engineering and Economics at Dartmouth, and obtained an MBA from Stanford. Co-founded Roomie Rentals while still a student, and then joined Bridgewater Associates as an Investment Associate, prior to co-founding EvolutionIQ in 2019.
Jonathan Lewin
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Studied History at Harvard. Jonathan co-founded eMeta and held senior leadership roles within corporate development and commerce at a range of companies, prior to co-founding EvolutionIQ in 2019.
Tomas Vykruta
(Co-Founder & President)Previously Developer Expert and Staff Engineer at Google and was a Flight Instructor at Blackwings Aviation.
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