Newfront is the modern insurance brokerage bringing the industry into the 21st century.

Backed by the world's leading investors, Newfront is a fast-growing startup modernizing the $274bn commercial insurance industry by supercharging brokers with technology. At our office in San Francisco, you'll have the opportunity to join a talented team of brokers, engineers, and operators, hitting the ground running with a singular focus: to bring an otherwise legacy industry into the 21st century.

As an Engineering Lead at Newfront, you will work with a team building features across the platform to help clients manage their risk and supercharge our brokers. There are tons of challenging technical problems to solve that directly impact the lives of your teammates and Newfront clients.

Newfront scales by hiring brokers who join with their book of business. Through automation and artificial intelligence, we eliminate paperwork and pay brokers a higher split of their commission revenue. We represent a paradigm shift in the industry and career path for tens of thousands of brokers.

• 🎥 To learn more about the technology we're building, watch our video Engineering at Newfront
• 🚀 To learn more about our mission and values, check out our Careers Page or Key Values
• 💰 To learn more about our funding, check out this Forbes article

Our business is built on the idea that there are certain tasks that humans do really well and others that are better suited for computers. We supercharge our brokers so that they can focus on the highest-value work and use technology for everything else. This includes machine learning to structure PDF documents, Phantom.js scripts to pass data to insurance carriers, and a beautiful customer dashboard.

Who we're looking for:

• You are product-focused and put the user's needs front and center
• You prefer no code to less code and less code to more code
• You are able to own engineering projects from start to finish, including making design decisions and communicating with other teams

Some of the technology we use:

• Node.js APIs
• React frontend with Next.js
• Postgres database
• Github/CircleCI
• DataDog
• Heroku, Vercel, and AWS with Docker