Senior Staff or Principal Software Engineer (AI Insurance Technology) (New York)

• EvolutionIQ is seeking to scale our infrastructure, systems, and people to support an agentic future for the insurance industry


• We are looking for a Senior Staff or Principal Software Engineer who is a pragmatic visionary who will serve as a high-leverage force multiplier across the entire organization


• In this role, you will drive the technical vision for our new agentic products and the growth of our platform


• You will solve our most complex technical bottlenecks and serve as the critical bridge between executive strategy and engineering execution


• Your mission is to ensure our technical roadmap directly supports our product goals while leveling up the software engineering rigor across our 100+ person organization


• Architect the Agentic Future: Lead the transition from traditional data pipelines to event-driven, agentic systems that handle tens of millions of unstructured documents with world-class stability


• Bridge the Platform-Product Divide: Act as a critical interface to ensure the Platform team builds generalized, high-utility tools that solve real problems for Product Engineers


• Accelerate the SDLC: Use first principles thinking to leverage AI and agentic tools to accelerate the entire software development lifecycle—from testing to deployment—ensuring we maintain high throughput as we scale


• Drive Organizational Influence: Partner with the CTO and EVP of Product and Technology to align technical strategy with business outcomes. You will influence the adoption of modern technologies by building the right environment for teams to succeed


• Pragmatic Implementation: Rapidly turn ideas into thoughtful designs with multiple options and trade-offs. You will lead the “1 to 10” journey towards iterative, startup-ready progress

Benefits

• Premium Medical Insurance Plan – Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Medical insurance


• 401K with employer matching


• Dental Coverage – Principal Financial


• Life insurance / ACDC coverage – Reliance Standard


• Vision – Reliance Standard


• Short Term and Long Term Disability – Unum


• Employee stock option plan


• $500 to get you started setting up your home office and $200 every year for upgrades after that

• Expert Communicator: You are an over-communicator by nature. You break down silos and can explain complex technical trade-offs to both junior engineers and executive leadership


• The Pragmatic Architect: You have a startup-first mindset. You know when to build for 10x scale and when over-engineering will hinder the company. You value getting stuff done and iterative bridging over theoretical rewrites


• Battle-Tested Leader: You have seen the “1 to 10” scale-up journey. You possess the startup rigor to move fast, combined with the enterprise wisdom to build systems that don’t break under massive volume


• Technically Polyglot: You have a deep software engineering foundation but understand the emerging agentic landscape (embeddings, RAG, retrieval) at a level that commands respect from Staff-level SMEs


• Product-Minded Engineer: You can translate high-level business needs into technical requirements. You think like a PM, are comfortable writing a PRD, and can effectively push back against stakeholders to ensure technical work delivers actual business value