Software Engineer, Backend

About the role

What We Do

Shepherd is a technology-driven Managing General Underwriter (MGU) transforming commercial Property & Casualty insurance for high-hazard industries. Our mission is to make risk frictionless for the builders and operators shaping the physical world — protecting progress from concept through construction and into decades of operation.

We’re building the fastest, smartest commercial risk platform, where underwriting expertise, data, and automation work together to deliver:

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Faster decisions

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Smarter, more accurate pricing

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Better risk outcomes

With Shepherd, safety, speed, and quality no longer trade off against one another — they compound. We’re not just modernizing insurance products. We’re building the risk infrastructure for the next generation of financial services, where technology, underwriting, and partnerships operate in harmony to support the world’s most important industries — and the progress they make possible.

Our Investors

To date, Shepherd has raised over $20M from leading investors, including:

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Spark Capital

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Costanoa Ventures

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Y Combinator

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Susa Ventures

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Intact Ventures

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And several others

Our Team

We're a team of technologists and insurance enthusiasts, bridging the two worlds together. Check out our About page to learn more.

The Role

We're looking for a talented software engineer who's passionate about what we're building and ready to do the best work of their career. You thrive on ownership, drive results, and care deeply about both technical excellence and customer impact.

You would be our dream candidate if...

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You aren't afraid of ambiguity, and it may even excite you

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You enjoy shipping product every day (maybe multiple times a day) while maintaining high quality standards

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You enjoy wearing multiple hats while solving problems; as an engineer, product manager, and designer

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You take end-to-end ownership of features and systems, from conception through release

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You care about the built-world and how to improve construction safety and productivity

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You care about others' growth and welcome mentoring other engineers — you've led or been a major contributor on significant projects

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You have strong opinions, weakly held — you advocate for your ideas but adapt when presented with better solutions

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You communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

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You have some experience with insurance – either from a prior InsurTech role or actuarial role