Shepherd
shepherdinsurance.com
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Property & Casualty Insurance
InsurTech
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Funding and backers
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
21
+3 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Y Combinator, Costanoa
Momentum
31/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jan 2021
Went through Y Combinator
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
3
best: 49 points
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Y Combinator 
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How Shepherd hires
Truth index
C 63/100
Ghost roles
62%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Shepherd scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 21 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 62% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Shepherd is an insurance technology company focused on commercial insurance, with a particular emphasis on the construction and contracting space. Its core aim is to make it easier for businesses to understand, buy, and manage the cover they need, while reducing the back and forth that often comes with traditional insurance processes. From a job seeker’s perspective, the problem Shepherd is tackling is practical and high impact, helping companies stay compliant, protect projects, and keep work moving without insurance becoming a constant operational bottleneck.
News
Back to the Monolith:AI Cost, Context, and our Changing Priorities
Most of Shepherd's architecture existed to compensate for our coordination limits, but AI-driven development removed that need to compensate. We merged our polyrepo into a monorepo, collapsed it into a single Next.js monolith, and cut our development cycl
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Behind Our Series B: The Road to Autonomous Underwriting
Our vision for fully agentic underwriting and the road to get there.
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The Great Database Migration
At the end of Q2 2024, we migrated Shepherd's pricing engine database with zero downtime.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Shepherd over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
49
Postings analysed
12
Stack modernity
89/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL42%
TypeScript33%
Go25%
JavaScript25%
Frameworks & libraries
Next.js25%
React.js25%
Gymnasium8%
PyTorch8%
Databases
PostgreSQL33%
Redis25%
Cloud & platforms
Spark25%
Metabase17%
AWS17%
Apollo17%
AI & ML
LLM42%
LoRA8%
PEFT8%
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Full Shepherd tech stack
49 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$213k
Typical range
$125k – $260k
Open positions
20
19
Jobs
Junior
10.5%
Middle
26.3%
Senior
42.1%
Staff
21.1%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 2 | $133k | $125k – $140k |
| Middle | 5 | $220k | $190k – $225k |
| Senior | 8 | $215k | $160k – $228k |
| Staff | 4 | $250k | $190k – $260k |
Highest paying role
Staff Software Engineer
$260k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
68/100
Growing
Open positions
20
2 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
82 days
faster than 19% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
25% ▼
Data Science
13% ▼
Product
13% ▼
Analytics
13% ▲
Marketing
13% ▲
Sales
13% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Looker to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Chicago
Sep 2026
New location: Los Angeles
Sep 2026
Added Tool Use to stack
Sep 2026
Added Figma to stack
Sep 2026
Added Salesforce to stack
Sep 2026
Added Metabase to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agentic Workflows to stack
Sep 2026
Added OpenAI Codex to stack
Aug 2026
Added Function Calling to stack
Aug 2026
Added Structured Outputs to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
4
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
16 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 50-200 est. staff $209k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Finance, AI/ML
500 Sansome Street
New York
United States
Regional office
12 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 25% engineering 10-50 est. staff $201k Avg Salary
hires for Finance, Sales, Data Science
500 Sansome Street
Chicago
United States
Corporate office
4 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 10-50 est. staff $198k Avg Salary
hires for Finance, Data Science, Analytics
Los Angeles
United States
2 open roles 1-10 est. staff $205k Avg Salary
hires for Finance
Jobs
$200k – $240k per year • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • New York • San Francisco • Chicago
Python
SQL
Spark
NLP
Time Series Forecasting
DevOps
AWS
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$110k – $140k per year • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • New York • San Francisco • Chicago
Python
SQL
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Spark
dbt
Analytics
Metabase
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$190k – $220k per year • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • San Francisco
SQL
Agentic Workflows
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$225k – $260k per year • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • San Francisco
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
PostgreSQL
Redis
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
Robotics
Apollo
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$225k – $260k per year • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • New York
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
PostgreSQL
Redis
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
Robotics
Apollo
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$180k – $220k per year • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Master's Degree • San Francisco
Python
TypeScript
SQL
LangGraph
LangChain
Spark
LoRA
dbt
Fine-tuning
RLHF
Prompt Engineering
Function Calling
AI Agents
NLP
PEFT
TensorFlow
PyTorch
LLM
Data Augmentation
Synthetic Data
Gymnasium
OpenAI
Hugging Face
Amazon SageMaker
DPO
Structured Outputs
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
Tool Use
Machine Learning
DevOps
AWS
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$170k – $225k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
PostgreSQL
Redis
AI/ML
Embeddings
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
Machine Learning
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
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$170k – $225k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
PostgreSQL
Redis
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
Apply
$170k – $225k per year • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
PostgreSQL
Redis
AI/ML
Spark
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
Apply
$170k – $225k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
PostgreSQL
Redis
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
Robotics
Apollo
Apply