# Founding Engineer

The opportunity Hedge is hiring a founding engineer to build the agents that run an insurance company and the infrastructure that lets them scale. You’ll build systems that read messy submissions, chase missing information, navigate carrier requirements, and move accounts from a broker’s first email toward coverage. Our agents are already in production, doing real work for paying customers. You’ll push them further: coordinating across carrier systems, recovering when things break, and improving through evals and feedback loops grounded in real outcomes. You’ll build alongside the founders, inside the operation, with more than 100 insurance market partnerships already in place. The opportunity is to turn the work of placing insurance into software and give a small team the capacity to serve thousands of brokers. How Hedge started Luke Rosa and Luke Button worked together launching new markets at Traba, where Rosa built AI agents to manage $20 million in revenue. Buying insurance for Traba’s high-risk operations showed them how slow and manual the industry was. Button later built Fernstone, an AI-native retail brokerage, and discovered a deeper bottleneck at the wholesale layer: acc

- **Id**: 1245446
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/hedge-founding-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-27T18:57:18Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-27
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T12:14:42Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 76
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4545
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Property & Casualty Insurance, Insurance Brokers & Agencies

## Company

- **Id**: 3779805
- **Name**: Hedge
- **Domain**: hedgespecialty.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/hedge-4>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 150000
- **Max**: 250000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 250000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 76

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T17:25:24Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 10
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.354
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 76
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 250000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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