About Accelerant
Accelerant is a data-driven risk exchange connecting underwriters of specialty insurance risk with risk capital providers. Accelerant was founded in 2018 by a group of longtime insurance industry executives and technology experts who shared a vision of rebuilding the way risk is exchanged – so that it works better, for everyone. The Accelerant risk exchange does business across more than 20 different countries and 250 specialty products, and we are proud that our insurers have been awarded an AM Best A- (Excellent) rating. For more information, please visit www.accelerant.ai.
About The Role
Accelerant is building a new platform that will serve as the backbone of how risk is exchanged in the future. The Product & Technology team is looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer who is passionate about building high quality software systems that are valued by customers.
If you join our team, here are some of things you’ll be doing:
- Working closely with peer engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand project requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
- Developing new frontend and backend features that help make our customers successful.
- Writing backend code in Typescript that is fully unit tested.
- Writing frontend code in Svelte, optimizing the frontend codebase for speed, efficiency, maintainability, and scalability.
- Moving fast, while taking the time to ship high-quality code.
What you bring to the table:
- Experience building and scaling web applications.
- Strong understanding of modern JavaScript frameworks.
- Strong coding ability.
- Passionate problem-solving mindset.
- Reputation for getting things done.
- Strong sense of ownership.
- Desire to learn and grow.
Desired qualifications:
- Experience with Typescript.
- Experience with Svelte, web components, or equivalent component model.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, and databases such as Postgres and Snowflake.
- Experience with SQL-Like databases and data caching strategies such as Postgres, Snowflake, and Redis.
- Experience integrating AI into the development lifecycle, including hands-on use of tools such as Cursor, Claude, and other LLM-based coding assistants to accelerate design, implementation, testing, and refactoring.
- Experience building AI-enabled features and applications, including working with modern LLM APIs, prompt design, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector databases, and developer tooling such as LangChain or equivalent frameworks.
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Skills Required
- Experience building and scaling web applications
- Strong understanding of modern JavaScript frameworks
- Passionate problem-solving mindset
- Strong coding ability
- Desire to learn and grow
- Experience with Typescript
- Experience with Svelte or equivalent component model
- Experience with AWS and SQL-like databases
- Experience integrating AI into the development lifecycle
What We Do
Accelerant is unlike other insurance program carriers. We are fueled by insurance technology and supported by our unique insurance platform. We work exclusively with MGAs and Program Administrators. We’re transparent, responsive and collaborative. We’ve walked in your shoes and understand your challenges. And we’re organized and committed to your success, because we’re successful when you are too. Our technology fueled, data driven partnerships with specialty underwriters and risk capital partners propel new levels of profitability by: · Providing the entire value chain access to data and analytics to better understand risk and benefit from these insights · Offering long-term capacity commitments · Prioritizing velocity and collaboration while eliminating bureaucracy · Offering support to streamline operational and regulatory complexity We’ve built a network of some of the best MGA and Program Administrators on the planet. We call them Members because it underscores our deep commitment to their, and your, success. And we are always looking for other top-class Members.
