Shepherd
shepherdinsurance.com
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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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Technologies
Tech DNA
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node JS
Next.js
React.js
LangChain
PostgreSQL
Redis
AWS
Amazon SageMaker
LLM
LoRA
PEFT
Frontend
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node JS
Next.js
React.js
AI/ML
Python
SQL
AI Agents
PostgreSQL
Redis
Spark
LLM
AWS
NLP
Prompt Engineering
Time Series Forecasting
Data Augmentation
dbt
Fine-tuning
Gymnasium
LangChain
LangGraph
LoRA
PyTorch
RLHF
Synthetic Data
TensorFlow
PEFT
Embeddings
RAG
Claude
Claude Code
Cursor
Amazon SageMaker
DPO
Hugging Face
LLM Guardrails
OpenAI
Structured Outputs
Function Calling
OpenAI Codex
Other
Go
GraphQL
Apollo
Stack modernity
89/100
How modern this stack is, based on technology relevance, AI adoption and the share of legacy tools.
In-demand technologies
AI Agents
7 jobs
Required
$225k
+1% vs market
TypeScript
7 jobs
Required
$225k
+25% vs market
JavaScript
6 jobs
Required
$225k
+39% vs market
Node JS
6 jobs
Required
$225k
+26% vs market
PostgreSQL
6 jobs
Required
$225k
+52% vs market
Redis
6 jobs
Required
$225k
+50% vs market
GraphQL
6 jobs
Required
$225k
+25% vs market
Next.js
6 jobs
Required
$225k
+16% vs market
Salary medians are calculated from this company's open jobs and compared with the market.
Industry adoption
Python
27%
SQL
26%
JavaScript
23%
AWS
22%
TypeScript
18%
PostgreSQL
17%
Share of companies in the same industry that use each technology.
Stack changes
OpenAI Codex
Aug 2026
Function Calling
Aug 2026
Structured Outputs
Aug 2026
OpenAI
Aug 2026
LLM Guardrails
Aug 2026
Hugging Face
Aug 2026
DPO
Aug 2026
Amazon SageMaker
Aug 2026
Technologies recently added to or removed from this company's stack - a signal of tech migrations and new initiatives.
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$225k
Typical range
$190k – $255k
Open positions
10
10
Jobs
Middle
40%
Senior
30%
Staff
30%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 4 | $220k | $190k – $225k |
| Senior | 3 | $225k | $225k |
| Staff | 3 | $240k | $240k – $255k |
Highest paying role
Staff Software Engineer (SF)
$255k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
58/100
Growing
Open positions
10
0 opened / 5 closed in 30 days
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
40% ▲
Data Science
20% ▼
Product
20% ▲
Sales
20% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Go to stack
Aug 2026
Added Cursor to stack
Aug 2026
Added Claude Code to stack
Aug 2026
Added Claude to stack
Aug 2026
Added RAG to stack
Jul 2026
Added Embeddings to stack
Jul 2026
Added AI Agents to stack
Jul 2026
Added PEFT to stack
Jul 2026
Added TensorFlow to stack
Jul 2026
Added Synthetic Data to stack
Jul 2026
Added RLHF to stack
Jul 2026
Added PyTorch to stack
Jul 2026
Jobs
$190k – $220k per year • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • San Francisco
SQL
AI Agents
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$225k – $255k per year • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • San Francisco
JavaScript
Node JS
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
Redis
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
Robotics
Apollo
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$200k – $240k per year • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • New York
JavaScript
Node JS
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
Redis
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
Robotics
Apollo
Apply
$200k – $240k per year • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
SQL
NLP
Spark
Time Series Forecasting
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS
Apply
$145k – $190k per year • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • New York
Claude
Claude Code
Cursor
LLM
AI Agents
OpenAI Codex
Apply
$180k – $220k per year • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Master's Degree • San Francisco
Python
SQL
TypeScript
Data Augmentation
dbt
Fine-tuning
Gymnasium
LangChain
LangGraph
LLM
LoRA
NLP
Prompt Engineering
PyTorch
RLHF
Spark
Synthetic Data
TensorFlow
PEFT
Amazon SageMaker
DPO
Hugging Face
LLM Guardrails
OpenAI
Structured Outputs
AI Agents
Function Calling
DevOps
AWS
Apply
$170k – $225k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Go
PostgreSQL
Redis
AI/ML
AI Agents
Embeddings
LLM
Prompt Engineering
RAG
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
Apply
$170k – $225k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
JavaScript
Node JS
TypeScript
Go
PostgreSQL
Redis
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
Apply
$170k – $225k per year • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • San Francisco
Node JS
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Go
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
JavaScript
Node JS
TypeScript
Go
PostgreSQL
Redis
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
Robotics
Apollo
Apply