Shepherd
Property & Casualty Insurance · InsurTech
24open roles
$313kmedian advertised pay
2backers · Y Combinator, Costanoa
Scaling fasthiring pace, 80 of 100
Overview
Shepherd is an insurance technology company that provides commercial insurance for the construction industry. It underwrites primary and excess casualty coverage for general contractors and specialty trades, pricing risk with data from the safety, telematics and project management tools its insureds already use, and it rewards safer job sites with lower premiums. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Key facts
As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 24 open roles at Shepherd. Shepherd is headquartered in San Francisco, United States. It was founded in 2021. The median pay stated in its open roles is $245k, across 24 postings that state pay.
- Open roles
- 24Job postings Alion tracks, as of Nov 13, 2026
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United StatesAlion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
- Founded
- 2021Alion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
- Employees
- 50+Alion company profile, an estimated range
- Median advertised pay
- $245kPay stated in 24 open postings
- Visa sponsorship, United States
- 6 · H-1B filings in 12 monthsUS Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 11, 2026
- Technologies in its job postings
- 51Named in its job postings
How Shepherd hires
Truth index
B 83/100
Median time to fill
132 days
Ghost roles
21%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Shepherd scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 24 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 21% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 132 days. 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
Funding and backers
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
24
+9 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Y Combinator, Costanoa
Momentum
25/100
hiring for its size, a new city
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Oct 19
First executive search Commercial Property Underwriting Leader (Director)
2021
Founded
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
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$170k – $400k per year · In office · Full-Time · 4+ years exp · San Francisco
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$313k
Typical range
$125k – $425k
Open positions
24
22
Jobs
Junior
9.1%
Middle
13.6%
Senior
27.3%
Staff
27.3%
Architect
22.7%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 2 | $133k | $125k – $140k |
| Middle | 3 | $400k | $400k |
| Senior | 6 | $314k | $205k – $400k |
| Staff | 6 | $243k | $185k – $400k |
| Architect | 5 | $350k | $275k – $425k |
Highest paying role
Head of Wholesale Underwriting
$425k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Shepherd
By role, level and city, against the market · 24 jobs with pay
Visa sponsorship
6
H-1B filings in 12 months
$173k
Median offered salary
24
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Software developers
3
Actuaries
2
Management analysts
1
In the register as Shepherd Labs, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Other sponsors in the same field
SquareTrade 
ERGO NEXT Insurance 
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US Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 11, 2026 · Visa details by country
Growth
Hiring Momentum
80/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
24
9 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
132 days
faster than 8% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+700%
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.
Finance
62% ▲
Analytics
15% ▼
Legal
8% ▲
Marketing
8% ▼
Customer Success
8% ▼
Actively hiring for Finance (+8 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Google Sheets to stack
Nov 2026
New location: Boston
Oct 2026
New location: Atlanta
Oct 2026
Added Dimensional Modeling to stack
Oct 2026
Added Dagster to stack
Oct 2026
Added CI/CD to stack
Oct 2026
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 Figma to stack
Sep 2026
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
51
Postings analysed
25
Stack modernity
89/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL24%
Python16%
TypeScript16%
Go12%
Frameworks & libraries
Next.js12%
React.js12%
Gymnasium4%
PyTorch4%
Databases
PostgreSQL16%
Redis12%
Cloud & platforms
Spark16%
Apollo12%
Metabase8%
AWS8%
AI & ML
LLM20%
LoRA4%
PEFT4%
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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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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
6
Hiring now
6
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
23 open roles 12 posted in 90 days 35% engineering 10-50 est. staff $287k Avg Salary
hires for Finance, Backend, Analytics
500 Sansome Street
New York
United States
Corporate office
13 open roles 9 posted in 90 days 15% engineering 10-50 est. staff $268k Avg Salary
hires for Finance, Backend, Analytics
500 Sansome Street
Chicago
United States
Corporate office
10 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 10% engineering 10-50 est. staff $259k Avg Salary
hires for Finance, Analytics, Legal
Los Angeles
United States
Corporate office
9 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $272k Avg Salary
hires for Finance, Legal, Industrial Engineering
Atlanta
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $425k Avg Salary
hires for Finance
Boston
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $425k Avg Salary
hires for Finance
How to cite this page
Alion, "Shepherd: key facts", as of Nov 13, 2026. https://alion.io/company/shepherd
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