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Senior Software Engineer

Vouch · Chicago, IL (Hybrid) · Hybrid

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About Vouch

Vouch is the insurance broker that powers ambition. We’re a tech-enabled insurance advisory and brokerage purpose-built for growing companies in technology, life sciences, and professional services. Backed by Index, Y Combinator and 500 Global.

About the role

Vouch provides several benefits to help you bring your best self to work: (Please note these steps may vary slightly depending on the role)

What they're looking for

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, including API design, tool/contract design, data modeling, and building reliable production services
  • Systems thinker who naturally reasons about service boundaries, coupling, and long-term maintainability
  • Experience designing and implementing integrations between enterprise platforms and backend software services
  • Experience with LLM agent frameworks or tool-calling patterns — LangChain, LangGraph, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Anthropic SDK, or equivalents
  • Comfortable working across heterogeneous stacks (TS/Node, Salesforce, data platforms) and selecting the right tool for the job
  • Proven ability to take ownership of ambiguous problems and drive solutions end-to-end
More about this role
  • Design and build the platform that exposes Vouch's domain operations: backend services, data platforms and salesforce — as deterministic, well-typed, auditable tools for both autonomous AI agents and human-built skills.
  • Implement reliable tool and data-access primitives: well-bounded interfaces, filtering constraints, normalized data contracts, auth/permissions, observability, and eval harness.
  • Design APIs, event flows, and service contracts that let agents and human workflows interact with operational systems without becoming brittle.
  • Help evolve the experience surfaces our brokers and clients use every day: component library, AI-assisted prototyping, and design ↔ engineering collaboration patterns — partnering with design, product, and engineering peers.
  • Contribute to the development of AI-enabled workflows and agent infrastructure, ensuring systems remain predictable, auditable, and production-ready.
  • Work directly with real-world operational data across Postgres, Snowflake, S3, and design access patterns usable by both product workflows and agent systems.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, including API design, tool/contract design, data modeling, and...

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