# Founding Member of Technical Staff at Ignition Benefits

- Company: Ignition Benefits (YC F26)
- What the company does: The AI-Native Benefits Brokerage. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.ignitionbenefits.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Jose, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-30
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ignition-benefits/jobs/04TOkxY-founding-member-of-technical-staff
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/ignition-benefits-founding-member-of-technical-staff/

## About the role

Ignition Benefits is the AI-native employee-benefits brokerage for companies with 25–200 employees. We believe the $900B+ employer benefits market is broken: opaque, manual, and stuck in the 1990s. We are changing that with technology, transparency, and a radically better client experience. We're backed by Y Combinator and Equal Ventures, and our CEO previously built and sold Plated for $300M, the largest exit in Shark Tank history. You are joining a team that knows how to build and scale.

## What they're looking for

- Build full-stack web apps our customers and our own ops team use every day
- Ship features end to end — architecture, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and beyond
- Build AI agents and durable workflows that run our back office — processes that run for weeks, wait on external systems, and resume where they left off
- Put agents in production, not in demos — human approval, evals, observability, etc
- Integrate third-party tools and external systems, proactively managing edge cases and risk
- Debug hard production issues and fix them for good

Tags: Engineering