Senior Software Engineer
About the role
Senior Backend-focused software engineer role at Vouch, a tech-enabled insurance advisory and brokerage. Focus on designing and building backend platform, data access, and AI-enabled workflows to support domain operations and agent/human collaboration, with hybrid Chicago, IL location.
Responsibilities
- Design and build the platform that exposes Vouch's domain operations: backend services, data platforms and salesforce — as deterministic, well-typed, auditable tools for both autonomous AI agents and human-built skills.
- Implement reliable tool and data-access primitives: well-bounded interfaces, filtering constraints, normalized data contracts, auth/permissions, observability, and eval harness.
- Design APIs, event flows, and service contracts that let agents and human workflows interact with operational systems without becoming brittle.
- Help evolve the experience surfaces our brokers and clients use every day: component library, AI-assisted prototyping, and design ↔ engineering collaboration patterns — partnering with design, product, and engineering peers.
- Contribute to the development of AI-enabled workflows and agent infrastructure, ensuring systems remain predictable, auditable, and production-ready.
- Work directly with real-world operational data across Postgres, Snowflake, S3, and design access patterns usable by both product workflows and agent systems.
Qualifications
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including API design, tool/contract design, data modeling, and building reliable production services.
- Systems thinker who naturally reasons about service boundaries, coupling, and long-term maintainability.
- Experience designing and implementing integrations between enterprise platforms and backend software services.
- Experience with LLM agent frameworks or tool-calling patterns — LangChain, LangGraph, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Anthropic SDK, or equivalents.
- Comfortable working across heterogeneous stacks (TS/Node, Salesforce, data platforms) and selecting the right tool for the job.
- Proven ability to take ownership of ambiguous problems and drive solutions end-to-end.
- Comfortable engaging with front-end work and collaborating closely with design and product.
- Comfortable using modern AI coding tools (Claude, Cursor, etc.) intentionally as part of daily work to ship production code.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to clearly articulate architectural tradeoffs.
Skills
Benefits
- 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 Peloton, Fetch, OneMedical, Headspace care+
- Caregiver Support: dependent care FSA and Care.com membership
- Regular performance reviews with goal setting and development discussions
About Vouch
Insurance and risk management tools for startups and growth-stage…
Insurance... sounds slow, old-fashioned, and unexciting. Exactly. Insurance is broken, and it's failing fast-moving, innovative startups. Vouch is a new, technology-first insurance company backed with $185M in funding from world-class investors. Like Stripe for payments or Brex for credit cards, Vouch is creating the go-to business insurance for high-growth companies. We're doing this by making insurance fast, responsive, and focused on our high-growth and innovative customers. Instead of printed PDF applications and week-long waits, Vouch is building new technology to solve real problems, writing policies that actually cover relevant startup scenarios, and designing simple experiences in an otherwise frustrating industry.
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