About the role

About us

Infer is building the operating system for insurance agencies. We make AI agents(including voice agents) that handle the work agencies have always done by hand: qualifying inbound leads, helping producers during live calls, auditing calls after, running renewals, and bringing churned customers back. Our long bet is that AI eventually sells insurance directly. Agencies are the wedge because that is where the work, the data, and the customer relationships actually live. Get good there, and the rest follows. We are a YC company and have raised from Stellaris Venture partners and others. Founders are:

• Vaibhav
• Urvin
• Suneel

A few reasons to join us:

• We like pushing each other on team to test the limits because that's when you rediscover yourself.
• We’re paranoid about making customers succeed (we challenge whats already good)
• We love people who question-challenge-build.
• We're highly transparent founders to work with & love getting challenged.
• Finally, we love people who’re interdisciplinary.

About the role

You take ownership of day-to-day engineering along with founder: architecture, code review, hiring, infra decisions, customer technical conversations. IC-first role. You'll ship code, architect systems, and mentor engineers naturally. We're not hiring a manager, we're hiring the best technical leader we can find and letting leadership emerge through respect and technical excellence. You'll help scale the team of engineers without killing our speed.

What you'll do

• Own the architecture and codebase: lead integration of FDE (customer deployment) work back into production systems
• Make onboarding new engineers straightforward (going from 6 to 12 fast)
• Design and document architecture for custom integrations and deployments
• Set standards for code quality, async patterns, and streaming system reliability
• Operate as IC first write code that others learn from
• Mentor 1–2 engineers on projects as capacity allows

Requirements

Experience & Background

• 6+ years software engineering experience building backend systems
• Experience leading teams or projects technically or architecturally

Technical Skills

• Proficient in Python or similar languages (Go/Java/Node.js)
• Experience with distributed systems or event-driven architectures
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Preferred Skills

• Voice/audio systems or telephony experience
• Experience bringing structure to codebases
• Founded or early employee at a 10–50 person startup