Shepherd (Series B)
ONSITE | San Francisco, CA
hn · ONSITE
Jose is an exceptional technical fit with deep full-stack expertise (TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis) and proven AI/ML capabilities including LangGraph agents and multi-step reasoning systems—exactly what Shepherd needs. His founding engineer background building AI products end-to-end demonstrates the product ownership and high autonomy the role demands. However, he lacks direct insurance or commercial underwriting domain experience, and his recent focus on voice/education AI is somewhat tangential to insurance automation.
Hook: Your founding engineer experience building LLM agents and real-time AI systems at scale, combined with your full-stack mastery of Shepherd's exact tech stack, makes you an ideal fit for leading AI underwriting infrastructure.
Missing: Commercial insurance domain knowledge, Underwriting workflows and risk assessment, Insurance industry regulatory/compliance context
Posting
Shepherd (Series B) | ONSITE | San Francisco, CA At Shepherd, we're pursuing the most ambitious technical vision in commercial insurance: fully autonomous underwriting. Shepherd is an AI-native commercial insurance platform transforming how high-hazard industries get covered. The infrastructure behind the AI boom (data centers, semiconductor fabs, renewable energy assets) has to be built and insured, but traditional carriers weren't built for this speed. We built Shepherd to solve that. We just recently announced our $42M Series B! That brings our total funding to over $60M — led by Intact Private Capital, the investment arm of one of the largest insurers in the world. Intact is not only our lead investor but also a carrier partner, a testament to the confidence the incumbent industry has in what we're building. We’re looking for product-minded, high ownership engineers to join our team! We’re hiring various mid-level, senior-level and staff-level engineers. Engineers own projects end-to-end so full stack ability is expected. Check out our open roles here: https://shepherdinsurance.com/careers * In the form, be sure to mention that you heard about this opportunity via Hacker News. Our stack includes: Typescript, React, Next.js, GraphQL w/ Apollo, Node.js, Postgres & Redis We’re hiring for: Full Stack, Backend, AI Engineer, ML Engineer – If you have experience building AI agents or multi-step reasoning systems, we’d love to hear from you. If you want to read more about our team and culture, check out our blog: https://shepherdinsurance.com/blog