Staff Backend Engineer - Core AI

Reposted 11 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in San Francisco, CA
In-Office or Remote
200K-230K Annually
Senior level
Insurance
The Role
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will develop scalable AI-driven backend systems, mentor the team, and improve engineering practices.
Summary Generated by Built In
Anzen was founded by former insurance and tech executives who’ve collectively scaled three unicorns. Backed by leading investors like Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Madrona, we’re on a mission to transform how companies choose and understand commercial insurance using AI.

Commercial insurance today runs on emails, PDFs, and lengthy underwriting cycles — often taking weeks to secure coverage. Anzen is building the world’s first AI insurance platform for brokers, radically improving how they manage submissions, select markets, and generate quotes for their clients.

We've built a team from top universities, with experience scaling products at Google, Uber, Lyft, Oracle, and startups founded by the best investors in the world, and are continuing to scale our team in Mexico, Canada, and the United States.

You will build our core technology to ensure it can scale to hundreds of millions of dollars in insurance policies and use ML to help insurance underwriters be 5-10x more effective.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Design & Product to translate fuzzy broker pain points into concrete, AI capabilities that perform equally or better than human experts.
  • Own the full ML lifecycle from framing business problems into research problems, evaluating results and rolling them out with the appropriate infrastructure.
  • Architect production‑grade systems that marry real‑time inference with human‑in‑the‑loop review and comply with strict privacy & audit requirements.
  • Elevate engineering quality, driving technical roadmaps and championing best practices
  • Mentor our Engineering team and help define Engineering culture at Anzen.

What we’re looking for

  • 8+ years building data‑intensive or ML‑driven backend systems
  • Production mindset: you’ve shipped business critical models with measurable business impact (latency, cost, ROI).
  • Broad ML toolbox, from classic ML (especially NLP) to GenAI
  • Strong backend fundamentals: distributed systems, streaming data pipelines
  • Fluency in Python and/or TypeScript in a production environment.
  • Startup DNA: thrive in ambiguity, bias to action.

Why Join Anzen:
Come join us in reinventing the future of insurance.
Work with advanced technologies in a rapidly growing industry.
Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.
A collaborative and innovative company culture focused on excellence and integrity.
Be part of a company that values proactive risk management and cutting-edge solutions.

Company Culture:
Anzen believes the world of work is fundamentally different in the new post-Covid environment. We are committed to supporting a diverse and hard working team that puts in the necessary time but also desires balance between health, family, and work. We fully embrace remote work lifestyles while centering our weeks around Pacific Standard Time (PST) with a general orientation to San Francisco as the geographic HQ.

Top Skills

AI
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Python
Typescript
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, California
25 Employees
Year Founded: 2020

What We Do

Anzen was founded to keep companies safe as they grow and manage their employees.

We are a leading provider of executive risk insurance, combining comprehensive insurance and proactive tools to help businesses identify and mitigate management risk. Anzen’s unique product offerings combine best-in-class D&O, Employment Practices, and Fiduciary insurance, integrations with core HR and finance systems, and proactive people operations tools to help keep businesses productive and safe.

Anzen is made up of insurance and tech executives who have collectively spent decades designing, buying, and distributing executive risk insurance and building technology businesses.

We are backed by the worlds leading investors and over 30 founders and business owners across the U.S.

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