Founding Engineer

Posted 4 Days Ago
2 Locations
In-Office or Remote
Entry level
Artificial Intelligence • Insurance • Software • Automation
The Role
As a Founding Engineer, you will architect and build the AI agent platform, develop automations, and optimize performance while collaborating with team members.
Summary Generated by Built In
Benbase is on a mission to scale the trusted benefits advisor.

As a Founding Engineer, you’ll architect and build our AI agent platform. You’ll work across the stack—from thinking how our agents interact human-in-loop to optimizing back-end infrastructure and model accuracy—ensuring speed, scalability, and impact.

We are seeking builders who thrive on speed, iteration, and impact.

What You’ll Do

  • Build and ship our AI agents platform to help automate our brokerage's core internal workflows
  • Develop and refine agentic middleware including prompt engineering and tool calls using Ruby and Python
  • Design and optimize agentic automations for performance, security, and reliability
  • Work closely with our brokerage team to translate ideas from prototypes to production-ready automations
  • Own key technical decisions, ensuring maintainability and long-term impact


Who You Are

  • You love to code
  • Have a strong portfolio or GitHub showcasing full-stack development expertise
  • Proficient in at least two major languages (Ruby/Python/Typescript) and modern front-end/back-end frameworks
  • Experience designing and working with Large Language Models, Embeddings and Prompt Engineering
  • Deep understanding of debugging, performance optimization, multi-stage deployment, and best practices
  • Comfortable in a fast-moving, high-performance startup environment

The ideal candidate is based in San Francisco or New York and can be hybrid a few days a week, but we are open to a fully remote hire.

Top Skills

Python
Ruby
Typescript
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, California
14 Employees
Year Founded: 2023

What We Do

Benbase is an AI-powered employee benefits brokerage that pairs smart automation with real licensed advisors to deliver better benefits with less admin. Behind the scenes, our AI agents handle plan comparison, enrollment, compliance, bill audits, and administration — the 80% that's repetitive and rules-based. Up front, experienced benefits professionals provide the judgment, empathy, and expertise that actually matter. The result: benefits that work for your business and your people, without the dread of open enrollment season. We serve companies from 5 employees to 500 — startups, nonprofits, schools, trades, and everyone in between — because every team deserves access to expert guidance, not just the ones with enterprise budgets. What we believe: • Benefits should be a competitive advantage, not a headache • AI should do the heavy lifting so humans can do the real thinking • Simplicity scales — clarity over complexity, always Based in the SF Bay Area and serving clients nationwide. Built by benefits people who spent decades wishing this platform existed — then decided to build it. Let's talk: benbase.com

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