Staff Software Engineer

About the role

What We Do

Yesterday's insurance wasn't built for today's risk. We see it in the data and we feel it in the field. Emerging technology can reinvent how risk is priced and managed, faster and smarter, anchored in proven expertise. First-movers will define the next era of commercial risk management, and Shepherd is building it.

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:

- Faster decisions

- Smarter, more accurate pricing

- 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

In March 2026, Shepherd raised a $42M Series B — bringing total funding to over $60M — led by Intact Private Capital, the investment arm of one of the largest insurers in the world. Intact is not only our lead investor but also a carrier partner, a testament to the confidence the incumbent industry has in what we're building. Our investors:

- Intact Private Capital, led our Series B round

- Costanoa Ventures, led our Series A round

- Spark Capital, led our Seed round

- Susa Ventures, lead our Pre-Seed round

- Y Combinator

- 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 will be the first Engineering team member in NYC, sitting and working closely with our underwriters and actuaries already in NYC.

You would be our dream candidate if...

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

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

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

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