Founding Backend Engineer - freeflow

Fully Remote $180,000-$220,000 a year + 0.50%-0.75% equity

Apply by emailing: [email protected]

About freeflow

We’re on a mission to take agentic AI solutions into the sleepy (but process-heavy) world of insurance. Owning this vertical will require a team that knows state-of-the-art in product design, computer science, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and deep insurance industry domain expertise.

The freeflow founding team are second time founders who successfully exited their prior startup (an online home insurance marketplace, called Young Alfred) in Dec 2021. Freeflow has closed a $2.5M preseed round from the same group of investors. We’re building a fully remote, small, capable, and high-performance team to become the backbone of freeflow as we scale. Early hires will join at the ground floor of a generative AI company that will change the way the $880BN P&C insurance industry operates.

Our culture supports team members to do their best work by giving them the context and the control to get things done. We provide a framework for autonomy and ownership with freedom and responsibility to do what’s best for the company using your judgement and experience.

As a Founding Backend Software Engineer at freeflow you will

• Be the founding backend software engineer on an engineering team that builds features which will deliver lasting value to customers

• Create novel and optimal algorithms and models to capture context in multimodal inputs and produce accurate outputs

• Design and implement complex, distributed event driven applications able to efficiently process large amounts of data, at scale

• Build stable and scalable architecture, understanding the tradeoffs between consistency, durability, and costs to build solutions to meet the evolution of a rapidly growing platform

• Apply SRE principles to consistently deliver value and growth reliably, owning all aspects of the software engineering process

• Collaborate with both internal and external stakeholders to gather feedback and continually improve the platform

About You

• 9+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting large scale distributed systems

• Systems programming experience skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc.

• Strong CS fundamentals with an appetite for learning

• Knowledge about machine learning and artificial intelligence (e.g. coursework)

• Collaborative teammate, willing to roll up your sleeves and use instinct to get things done the right way

• Passionate about solving customer needs and love moving fast

Bonus

• Interest in generative AI, foundational models, LLMs, deep learning, machine learning, and understanding the state of the art

• Academic and/or professional experience building ML and AI models and integrating with software

Note, we don’t expect you to know everything listed above. What matters most to us is that you are experienced, enjoy solving hard problems independently, are passionate about technology, are an outstanding team player, and you are interested in learning and growing on the job professionally and personally.

Core Technologies We (Currently) Use:

• We build APIs and event driven pipelines in Go with Python for ML and AI, with Kafka as the distributed pubsub platform, all deployed in the cloud

• User interfaces in Typescript and React

• Primarily Postgres and Kafka for data storage and message passing

• Deployed to k8s in GCP (GKE), scripted in Terraform

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation, stock options, health insurance

• Home office setup stipend

• Flexible PTO

• Use the tooling of your choice to maximize your productivity (e.g. paid ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Intellij, etc)

Please note in your resume or application which timezone you will be living and working from.

Apply by emailing: [email protected]