Software Engineer II (Full-Stack, Backend-leaning)
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This role involves building automation systems and backend logic for a super app that simplifies car and home ownership. You will work on fast sprint cycles to ship new automations and improve customer retention.
Responsibilities
- Build automation systems that handle complex insurance servicing tasks end-to-end (policy endorsements, cancellations, document uploads, reinstatements)
- Reduce policy cancellations, improve renewals, and ensure users always have the best coverage
- Ship new automations in 1–2 weeks on average
- Compose backend business logic that drives automation while respecting complex insurance carrier rules
- Design backend pipelines that sync customer policy data, deliver timely alerts, and power seamless re-shopping experiences
- Optimize and scale internal tools to reduce agent intervention
- Collaborate closely with product, data, and engineering ops to anticipate churn and improve customer retention
- Work asynchronously across time zones, with minimal meetings but strong collaboration through Asana and Slack
- Continuously improve backend systems, APIs, and microservice architecture
- Help build the foundation for the next phase of the platform's growth by refactoring major parts of the code base, simplifying old systems, and rebuilding core flows
Requirements
- At least 2 years full-stack engineering experience building production-grade software
- Strong foundations in data structures, algorithms, and systems design
- Ability to tackle ambiguous problems, break them down into actionable code, and iterate quickly
- Ownership of end-to-end outcomes and continuous improvement of systems
- Comfort working asynchronously with a global team
- Excellent communication skills
- Curiosity and adaptability to learn, explore new tools, and understand the bigger picture
Qualifications
- At least 2 years full-stack engineering experience building production-grade software, ideally prior experience building large-scale distributed systems for a fast-growing consumer-facing software
Nice to Have
- Prior experience building large-scale distributed systems for a fast-growing consumer-facing software
Skills
* Required skills
Benefits
About Jerry
Jerry.ai is America’s first and only super app to radically simplify car ownership, leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to redefine how people manage owning a car.