Backend Engineer

About hireworks

hireworks is building a community of top talent in Bulgaria and unlocking unparalleled access to positions at leading U.S. based companies. As your employer, hireworks will ensure you have a seamless interview, onboarding and employee experience - providing ongoing support and resources along the way. Established in 2023, hireworks is forging corp to corp relationships with leading U.S. based organizations looking to grow their teams with best in class talent out of Bulgaria. Working with hireworks means unlocking access to a network of local peers and mentors and career opportunities through our client network.

About Annex

Were solving a critical problem for the American homeowner - the exploding cost of homeowners insurance - specifically in natural catastrophe heavy areas. From south Texas to woodland California to the New Jersey shore, consumers are being asked to pay thousands more in insurance premiums every year.

For decades, the insurance industry has met the needs of these consumers with a transaction based in PDFs and faxes, and underwriting based on anecdote and human experience. Risk isnt priced accurately, the sale is high friction and confusing, and those who bear the risk have lost over $100b in the past year. This is a $30b TAM space where software can create massive value across multiple dimensions; we at Annex are building a platform connecting the dots between whats best for consumers, insurance agents and reinsurers.

Our progress

• Bootstrapped our way to market and material revenue in a highly regulated vertical in the most difficult market conditions in fifty years
• Cofounders inked deals with some of the most sophisticated carriers and insurance retailers in the world as a tiny team
• Significantly exceeding traditional venture-backed SaaS growth metrics with fantastic unit economics - with super sticky relationships
• Launching several new insurance products and building product surfaces that massively impact user satisfaction

What have we built

• Digital sales tooling enabling a 90-second sale, vs multi-day phone/email/fax-based transaction, in a deeply regulated, highly-nuanced industry rife with adverse selection
• Direct integration with several underwriting teams at Lloyds of London and other global speciality insurers focused on natural catastrophe risk
• Orchestration middleware that drives the full policy lifecycle: quote, issue, endorse, cancel, reinstate, and renewal
• Transactional workflow and batch pipelines for automating complex clerical tasks, such as notifying lenders to scheduling inspections and auto-renewing policies
• Internal tools for our underwriting, finops and CSR teams
• An API allowing us to deliver offers into digital insurance marketplaces and affinity distribution channels
• Custom pricing and underwriting engine that allows us to launch and manage our own insurance programs; we're solving the capital allocation problem from first principles

What we want to buid

• Significantly enhance and broaden our core policy lifecycle APIs to enable us to scale profitably - make the hundreds of transactions we perform per day scale to tens of thousands
• Extend our core platform to integrate with additional carrier partners enabling us to provide more/better options and products for consumers
• Build a consumer-facing portal to better serve insureds
• Add APIs enabling agents and consumers to self-serve or work with us via API in novel ways, unlocking differentiated distribution and efficiency gains. Step-change our existing heavily used quote API

Who we think this is a great role for

• A product-minded engineer looking to be the first backend-focused hire
• Someone eager to build in a high-agility environment in a post-PMF, post revenue startup which is rapidly building tech/product to sustain growth. Everything you build will be critical to Annexs success
• Have experience working in an environment with strong engineering culture, and looking to bring that discipline to the pace of a startup
• Excited by working on a variety of product and engineering challenges - we're still in the build phase, less the optimize phase
• A person with an interest in the intersection of climate and financial services. Our platform saves consumers thousands of dollars, or provides options where there are none

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Experience designing and shipping product features end-to-end
• Experience in Scala or another functional programming language a plus
• Fintech or insurtech experience a plus

Benefits:

hireworks is cultivating a growing community of top talent across Colombia. In addition to unlocking access to positions at top tier U.S. based companies, we offer a variety of benefits to enhance your experience:

• Competitive Pay - compensation that reflects your experience and accomplishments
• Remote Flexibility - work from anywhere in Colombia
• Paid Time Off - ample vacation days to rest and recharge
• Public Holidays - all Colombian federal holidays are fully paid days off