engineering
Posted Jul 9, 2025Software Engineer, Full Stack
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Requirements
- The infrastructure behind the AI boom — data centers, semiconductor fabs, renewable energy assets — has to be built and insured.
- Our AI performs the same underwriting workflows in seconds, and integrates real-time data from construction technology partners — Procore, Autodesk, OpenSpace, DroneDeploy, and others — to see risk as it actually exists, not just as it was reported on a static form.
- A lot of what we do starts in Excel and ends in production code.
- experience in TypeScript, Python, or similar -
- Experience designing APIs and working with data-heavy systems - Comfort operating in ambiguous, high-responsibility environments - A bias toward ownership and shipping - Good judgment – knowing when to move fast and when to slow down Our Tech Stack Frontend - React & Next.js - Typescript - GraphQL w/ Apollo Backend - Node.js - Postgres & Redis - Typescript - GraphQL APIs YOU’LL LIKELY THRIVE HERE IF - You like building foundational systems, not surface-level features - You enjoy working at the intersection
Benefits
- WHAT WE DO Shepherd is an AI-native commercial insurance platform transforming how high-hazard industries get covered.
- We're pursuing the most ambitious technical vision in commercial insurance: fully autonomous underwriting.
- We're building: - Faster decisions - Smarter, more accurate pricing - Better risk outcomes for insureds who invest in safer practices We're not just modernizing insurance products.
- BENEFITS 🏥 Premium Healthcare 100% contribution to top-tier health, dental, and vision 🥕 Fertility
- benefits and family building support 🏖️ Unlimited PTO Flexibility to take the time off, recharge, and perform 🥗 Daily lunches, dinners, and snacks We work together, and enjoy meals together too 🖥️ SF, NYC, Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago and LA Offices 📚 Professional Development Access to premium coaching, including leadership development 🏦 Competitive 401(k) Plan 🐶 Dog-friendly office Plenty of dogs to play with and make friends with in the SF office
Contact
- OUR INVESTORS In March 2026, Shepherd raised a $42M Series B https://www.linkedin.com/posts/justindlevine29_today-were-announcing-our-42m-series-b-activity-7442200922291630080-z1gw?rcm=ACoAAAkOMEwBRnAAXmdnQcaOJeioCu6VCqR6Gzc&utm_medium=member_desktop&utm_source=share — bringing total funding to over $60M — led by Intact Private Capital, the investment arm of one of the largest insurers in the world.