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Founding Engineer

Layerup California San Francisco US

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$80k - $220k · Senior Full-time Posted over 2 years ago 3 min read

Founding Engineer

What if you had a chance to be at the forefront of innovation while disrupting a 300+ year-old industry? That’s what we’re doing over at Layerup — we’re bringing Generative AI to the Insurance Broker Industry.

We’re a seed-stage startup backed by some of the best investors in Silicon Valley like Founders Inc, Y Combinator, Multicoin Capital, CapitalX, Founders of Polygon (Sandeep and Jaynti), OrangeDAO, and a few more amazing angels like Shaan Puri.

If you’re applying to this position, you love startups and inventing products**!** You like to move fast, challenge people on their assumptions, have an intrinsic motivation to make things that create a BIG impact, and most importantly you truly resonate with the mission.

Why Join?

Be at the forefront of innovation: Today, we’re completely focused on bringing Generative AI to the insurance industry, but in the next decade, we won’t shy away from disrupting ourselves. Again, our mission is to boost innovation in areas that lack it. You will learn cutting-edge skills that will define the future.
Accelerate your learnings: Joining an early-stage AI startup is the best possible way to learn fast and build something that will be used by billions of people in the coming years. We’ve personally hacked on multiple products that we shipped in less than 24 hours.
Tackle interesting problems: Our team is small and everyone wears multiple hats. Jump from writing code to working super closely with the users.

Startups are the best possible career choice from the standpoint of learning fast and rapidly gaining important skills. That’s exactly our moat — learning about what (are the right) specs to ship faster than any other company.

Skills:

Strong Full-stack software fundamentals (React, Node js, MongoDB, and more)
Knowledge of and passion for AI applications. Ideally, you’ve played around with more than just GPT-4 and you like to stay at the cutting edge of innovation in the space.
You can quickly learn how to work with services and tools even without previous experience
Excellent written communication (design docs, specs, documentation, code reviews, post-mortems)
Impatient with execution, but patient with results (aka you’re the type of person who makes shit happen)

Bonus points: startup experience, built AI apps, worked with more than just GPT-4, or personal interest in AI.

Benefits and impact:

Create a leading piece of software for the 300+ year old industry: We’re on an extremely impactful mission. The world doesn’t need the 10th CRM or the 20th social consumer app. The world needs startups solving really hard real-life problems.
Work with the best: We want to build a product-obsessed engineering-heavy culture. Our major focus in the early days would be writing code and talking to users. Help us build this product-obsessed culture from day 1.
Be in an entrepreneurial environment: We want our founding team to be entrepreneurial and build a company from 0 to 1.

Here's the link to learn more: https://layerup-team.notion.site/Jobs-Layerup-Join-us-1515b4d96e094b099c04a2f723647a61?pvs=4

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