FurtherAI

About the Company

FurtherAI is a domain-specific AI for the insurance industry. Our AI Workspace automates complex workflows like submission intake, policy comparisons, and underwriting audits—making teams faster, smarter, and more efficient. Leading insurers, reinsurers, MGAs, and brokers rely on FurtherAI to drive better decisions at scale. Backed by top investors including Y Combinator, Nexus, South Park Commons, and Converge, FurtherAI supports customers writing over $15B in premiums across all 50 states.

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Company Name

FurtherAI

Job Title

Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Job Description

**Job Title** Senior Software Engineer – Backend **Role Summary** Design, develop and scale the core backend infrastructure for an AI‑powered insurance platform. Lead the Python‑based service layer, ensuring high performance, reliability, and continuous improvement in a fast‑paced product environment. Collaborate directly with founders to define technical strategy and own significant portions of the backend stack from concept through deployment. **Expectations** - Minimum 5 years of hands‑on backend development experience. - Proven track record building production‑grade services or systems. - Strong communication skills in both written and verbal formats. - Demonstrated ownership, grit, and ability to thrive in high‑velocity settings. **Key Responsibilities** - Architect, implement, and maintain scalable Python services and APIs. - Optimize system performance, reliability, and cost efficiency across the backend ecosystem. - Design data models and choose appropriate storage solutions (SQL/NoSQL) to support evolving product requirements. - Drive unit, integration, and automated pipeline testing to ensure code quality. - Collaborate with product, data science, and front‑end teams to translate feature requests into robust backend solutions. - Lead troubleshooting, debugging, and incident response for production issues. - Mentor junior engineers and enforce coding standards and best practices. - Partner with founders to define and evolve the product roadmap and technical direction. **Required Skills** - Expert in Python and related libraries/frameworks (FastAPI, Django, Flask, etc.). - Deep understanding of scalable, distributed systems architecture and design patterns. - Experience designing and consuming RESTful/GraphQL APIs. - Proficiency with relational and non‑relational databases, query optimization, and schema design. - Familiarity with containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure). - Strong grasp of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment practices. - Ability to analyze performance metrics, conduct bottleneck analysis, and implement optimizations. - Experience in B2B SaaS or end‑to‑end product development (0‑to‑1) is a plus. - Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to explain technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders. **Required Education & Certifications** - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent professional experience. ---

San francisco, United states

On site

Senior

26-12-2025