Staff Backend Engineer, AI

The role

You will build reliable backend systems that enable AI agents to handle complex insurance workflows safely and at scale. You will develop autonomous agents, build real-time conversational AI systems, and process unstructured data at enterprise scale.

What you will do

• Develop autonomous agents that complete meaningful work
• Build real-time, conversational AI systems
• Transform unstructured information into interactive experiences
• Design systems that make agentic AI reliable in regulated environments
• Build pipelines that ingest large volumes of audio, documents, images, and free-form text
• Solve adversarial fraud and trust problems
• Evolve key systems without disrupting production
• Build shared services used across the entire product ecosystem
• Turn product and business needs into reliable backend services
• Support and collaborate with other engineers

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of backend or full-stack engineering experience
• TypeScript
• Node.js
• PostgreSQL
• AWS
• Kubernetes
• GraphQL
• LLM tooling such as LangGraph, LangChain, and others

Nice to have

• Experience within SaaS platforms or high-scale distributed systems environments

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Platinum medical, dental, and vision
• Free life insurance including long-term disability & short-term disability
• Unlimited PTO including uncapped vacation days & paid holidays
• Maternity & paternity leave
• 401(k) Contribution: Assured contributes 3% of your income
• Lunch 2x/week
• Monthly phone stipend
• Other home office perks
• Health FSAs & HSAs
• Team events & Offsites

About the company

Assured provides large insurers with software solutions to modernize claims processing. They act as the engine that powers claims processing for some of the largest insurers in the world.