Authentic builds the infrastructure powering specialty insurance programs. The new infrastructure for program insurance—built for speed, built to last. Backed by FirstMark Capital.
About the role
Projects you might lead in your first year: Rearchitecting the rating engine to support new lines of business, rebuilding a program-configuration system, event-driven billing and reconciliation. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years building and running production distributed systems, mostly in Python or Go
- Strong API and data-modeling skills, and a sense for systems that need to be correct as well as fast
- Hands-on experience with AWS, infrastructure-as-code, and modern deployment practices
- Good judgment about when to move fast and when to slow down and get it right
- A habit of owning problems end to end: you clarify what "good" looks like, ask sharp questions, and see things through
More about this role
Authentic is a tech-enabled MGA (managing general agent). We design and run insurance programs for specific kinds of businesses, like restaurants, gyms, and power producers. Brokers bring us the businesses that need coverage, and carriers back our policies. Every program runs on a platform we built ourselves, and we own every line of code behind it. Engineers and insurance experts build it side by side in New York and Dayton, Ohio. Since our founding in 2022, we’ve grown to 80+ people and been named to the 2026 CB Insights Insurtech 50.
As a Senior Engineer on the Platform team, you'll shape the core systems every program depends on. You'll make architecture decisions that will matter for years, working side by side with the underwriters and insurance experts who use what you build every day.
- Core insurance services: rating, quoting, policy lifecycle, billing, document generation and extraction
- The shared framework that lets us launch a new insurance program quickly, by configuration instead of custom code
- Integrations with carriers, brokers, and third-party data sources
- Infrastructure, deployment, observability, and developer tooling
- Lead large, ambiguous projects from...
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