About Vouch:

Vouch is the insurance broker that powers ambition.

We’re a tech-enabled insurance advisory and brokerage purpose-built for growing companies in technology, life sciences, and professional services. Our clients are ambitious leaders building complex businesses, and we help them manage risk with tailored advice, smart coverage, and responsive service.

Backed by over $200M from world-class investors, Vouch combines deep industry expertise with AI-powered tools to deliver a better insurance experience. Our digital workflows reduce friction, speed up decisions, and give our clients the confidence to move faster.

Why should you join our team and Vouch?

Not only is this an exciting and growing team where you can drive a real impact on our operational scalability, but Vouch is also the preferred insurance provider to customers of Y Combinator, Brex, Carta, and WeWork. We’re a quickly growing startup that believes in transparency and acknowledgment with our team members and cultivating a values-driven company. Our values are "Be Client Obsessed", "Own it together", "Act with integrity and empathy", "Stay Curious and Grow", and "Empower People."

What does a work environment look like at Vouch?

Vouch has employees located across the U.S., with offices in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City. This role can be based anywhere in the U.S. as long as you can work our Vouch core collaboration hours (8:30 am-2:30 pm Pacific Time) when most internal meetings are held.

About the role:

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who thrives at the intersection of software engineering and data. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys building reliable, scalable software systems while working deeply with real-world data — integrating it directly into product workflows, improving its quality, and enabling new experiences powered by LLMs and automation.

You’ll work on the foundational software and platform capabilities that bring data into Vouch’s core product experience. You’ll collaborate with product engineering, analytics, and domain experts to design and build services, APIs, and workflows that power our distribution systems. This role requires strong product instincts and the ability to fill requirement gaps, propose solutions, and drive clarity across stakeholders.

This is a high-ownership senior engineering role where you will define and influence architecture, lead major technical initiatives, and exercise strong technical leadership across the team. You’ll help shape how data-powered services are designed, built, and integrated into the broader platform — all while working hands-on to deliver high-impact, production-grade systems.

If you love solving ambiguous engineering problems, designing resilient data-driven services, and partnering across teams to deliver meaningful product value, you’ll find this role both challenging and rewarding.

What You’ll Do: 

Build and integrate data-powered platform services

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs (primarily Python and Nest.js/Node.js) that integrate data directly into product workflows.
• Develop shared libraries, SDKs, and developer-facing tooling used across engineering teams.
• Implement event-driven systems and workflow orchestration using tools like Temporal and Dagster.
• Build retrieval-augmented and LLM-integrated workflows that enhance product experiences through summarization, classification, validation, or agentic automation.
• Partner with product engineering teams to embed data services seamlessly into user-facing products.

Own data & platform integration across systems

• Integrate real-world transactional and operational data into software applications with reliability, quality, and performance in mind.
• Collaborate with data engineers to define and evolve data models, schemas, and interfaces that support platform and product needs.
• Improve upstream data quality and completeness by identifying issues, tracing root causes, and driving fixes.
• Build tools, guards, and checks to ensure data powering software workflows is accurate and trustworthy.

Drive cross-functional engineering impact

• Work with product managers, engineering leaders, analysts, and domain experts to translate ambiguous requirements into clear, actionable software solutions.
• Fill product gaps by proposing workflows, APIs, or data-driven capabilities that aren’t explicitly defined but are necessary to deliver business value.
• Act as a technical leader within mixed pods, guiding architecture discussions, influencing system design, and unblocking teammates as needed.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for platform and data services.
  
  

About You:

• Strong software engineering experience (5 years) , with expertise in:
• • TypeScript + Nest.js/Node.js
  • Python, especially for backend services, LLM workflows, and data integrations
• Hands-on experience with:
• • Postgres, Snowflake, S3
  • Kafka
  • AWS cloud services
  • Temporal and/or Dagster
• Experience integrating LLM-generated outputs into applications and building retrieval-augmented workflows.
• Experience designing APIs, services, and event-driven architectures that support data-rich applications.
• Experience building shared libraries or SDKs consumed by multiple engineering teams.
• Exposure to LLM evaluation strategies, prompt design, or agentic workflow patterns.
• Familiarity with data modeling and schema design across OLTP and OLAP systems.
• A track record of high ownership: driving complex problems end-to-end, improving systems proactively, and aligning stakeholders across engineering, analytics, and product.
• Ability to work with messy, incomplete, or inconsistent production data and drive improvements to data quality.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions and trade-offs to non-technical partners.
• Experience operating as a senior technical contributor — leading initiatives, shaping architecture, and influencing engineering direction without requiring a formal leadership title.
  
  

Nice To Have:

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, containerization, or CI/CD pipelines.
• Additional cloud or orchestration tooling experience.
• Experience with front-end technologies such as React.
• Domain experience in insurance.

What this role is not

• Not a pure ML or research role focused on model development.
• Not a traditional data engineering role limited to ETL pipelines without broader software or platform ownership.
• Not a full-stack product engineering role centered on front-end work.

Vouch provides several benefits to help you bring your best self to work:

• 💰 Competitive compensation and equity packages
• ⚕️ Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 🍼 Parental leave
• 🌴 Flexible vacation time 
• 🪷 Wellness allowance
• 🛜 Technology allowance
• 📚 Company-sponsored personal and professional development
• 🏫 L&D: Partnerships with Ethena and monthly Lunch & Learns
• 🧘 Wellbeing: access to many wellbeing perks, including  Peloton, Fetch, OneMedical, Headspace care+, etc.
• 🤗 Caregiver Support: company seed into the dependent care FSA and company sponsored Care.com membership.
• 📊 Regular performance reviews: Vouch conducts regular performance discussions with all team members, offering goal setting and check-ins, development discussions, and promotion opportunities.

What to expect in a typical interview process:

(Please note these steps may vary slightly depending on the role)

• 30-minute phone call with our recruiting team
• 30-45 minute video interview with the hiring manager
• Case study/technical screen
• Meet the team! 30-45 min 1:1 video discussion with 3-4 team members you’d work closely with in the role
• Executive chat
  
  

Compensation philosophy:

Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry and are part of our total compensation package, which also includes benefits and other perks. We also include stock options in all compensation packages and believe all Vouch employees should have the opportunity to become owners in the company. Individual pay decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skill set, location, and business need. The pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Vouch believes in putting our people first, and building a diverse team is at the front of everything we do. We welcome people from different backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and ranges of abilities. We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate the diversity of our growing team. 

If you require reasonable accommodation to complete this application, interview, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to recruiting@vouch.us.