Software Engineer, Full Stack

Yesterday's insurance wasn't built for today's risk. We see it in the data and we feel it in the field. Emerging technology can reinvent how risk is priced and managed, faster and smarter, anchored in proven expertise. First-movers will define the next era of commercial risk management, and Shepherd is building it.

Shepherd is a technology-driven Managing General Underwriter (MGU) transforming commercial Property & Casualty insurance for high-hazard industries. Our mission is to make risk frictionless for the builders and operators shaping the physical world, protecting progress from concept through construction and into decades of operation.

We're building the fastest, smartest commercial risk platform, where underwriting expertise, data, and automation work together to deliver:

• Faster decisions

• Smarter, more accurate pricing

• Better risk outcomes

With Shepherd, safety, speed, and quality no longer trade off against one another. They compound. We're not just modernizing insurance products. We're building the risk infrastructure for the next generation of financial services, where technology, underwriting, and partnerships operate in harmony to support the world's most important industries and the progress they make possible.

In March 2026, Shepherd raised a $42M Series B — bringing total funding to over $60M — led by Intact Private Capital, the investment arm of one of the largest insurers in the world. Intact is not only our lead investor but also a carrier partner, a testament to the confidence the incumbent industry has in what we're building. Our investors:

• Intact Private Capital, led our Series B round

• Costanoa Ventures, led our Series A round

• Spark Capital, led our Seed round

• Susa Ventures, lead our Pre-Seed round

• Y Combinator

• And several others

We're a team of technologists and insurance enthusiasts, bridging the two worlds together. Check out our About page to learn more.

We’re hiring a Software Engineer to build the core infrastructure behind underwriting, pricing, and policy workflows. This is high-leverage work. The systems you build will directly impact revenue, loss ratios, and how we scale.

You’ll work closely with engineers, actuaries, and underwriters to turn messy real-world logic into clean, durable systems. A lot of what we do starts in Excel and ends in production code. We care deeply about correctness, clarity, and speed.

This is an ownership-heavy role. You’ll be expected to reason from first principles, ship quickly, and improve things that feel broken.

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  Build and own backend systems that power pricing models, underwriting workflows, and policy lifecycle infrastructure

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  Translate complex actuarial and underwriting logic into maintainable, production-grade services

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  Improve the performance and reliability of our core rating and decision systems

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  Contribute to architectural decisions that set the foundation for how we scale

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  Work directly with domain experts to define the right abstractions, not just implement tickets

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  Hold a high bar for code quality, simplicity, and long-term maintainability

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience

• Strong backend experience in TypeScript, Python, or similar

• Experience designing APIs and working with data-heavy systems

• Comfort operating in ambiguous, high-responsibility environments

• A bias toward ownership and shipping

• Good judgment – knowing when to move fast and when to slow down

Frontend

• React & Next.js

• Typescript

• GraphQL w/ Apollo

Backend

• Node.js

• Postgres & Redis

• Typescript

• GraphQL APIs

• You like building foundational systems, not surface-level features

• You enjoy working at the intersection of business logic and engineering

• You want your work to directly impact company outcomes

• You prefer small teams, high standards, and real accountability

• You care about building something durable

Shepherd runs on four values. Here's what each one means in this seat.

🐶 Dog-friendly office
Plenty of dogs to play with and make friends with in the SF office