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You'll work closely with Product and Design, experiment with ideas, build fast, put things in front of users, and iterate based on what you learn.\nWe're looking for someone with a builder's mindset: someone who enjoys taking an idea from zero to one, is comfortable with ambiguity, moves fast without compromising on fundamentals, and takes ownership beyond their immediate scope.\nIf you enjoy building from scratch, shipping quickly, experimenting with AI, and solving problems that don't come with predefined answers, this is for you.\nWhat You'll Do\nBuild from 0→1: Design and develop the backend foundations for a new consumer insurance business, taking ideas from initial prototypes to production-ready systems.\n\nOwn the backend: Build and maintain services, APIs, data models, and integrations that power the end-to-end insurance journey.\n\nBuild AI-powered workflows: Experiment with LLMs, generative AI, and AI-driven workflows, taking them beyond prototypes into reliable production systems.\n\nMove fast and ship: Work closely with Product and Design to turn ideas into working software, test with users, and iterate quickly.\n\nThink beyond the ticket: Take ownership of problems end-to-end, identify gaps, challenge assumptions, and figure out what needs to be built next.\n\nBuild for reliability: Make thoughtful engineering decisions around scalability, performance, debugging, observability, and system reliability.\n\nLeverage AI: Use AI coding tools and models to accelerate development, while understanding, validating, and taking ownership of the code you ship.\n\nYou Might Be the One If\nYou have strong backend engineering fundamentals, particularly in data modelling, API design, system architecture, debugging, and building reliable services.\n\nYou've built and shipped software end-to-end, whether in a startup, an early-stage team, an independent project, or a product you've built yourself.\n\nYou have experimented with or shipped LLM-powered workflows, generative AI applications, or AI-driven product experiences. 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