USD per year
Staff Software Engineer (SF)
Location
San Francisco
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
On-site
Department
EPDEngineering
Compensation
- $225K – $260K
Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range(s) listed is just one component of Shepherd's total compensation package for employees. Other benefits include stock options, an unlimited paid time off policy, and 100% coverage on medical, vision and dental insurance.
What We Do
Yesterday's insurance wasn't built for today's risk. We see it in the data and we feel it in the field. Emerging technology can reinvent how risk is priced and managed, faster and smarter, anchored in proven expertise. First-movers will define the next era of commercial risk management, and Shepherd is building it. Shepherd is a technology-driven Managing General Underwriter (MGU) transforming commercial Property & Casualty insurance for high-hazard industries. Our mission is to make risk frictionless for the builders and operators shaping the physical world, protecting progress from concept through construction and into decades of operation. We're building the fastest, smartest commercial risk platform, where underwriting expertise, data, and automation work together to deliver:
- Faster decisions
- Smarter, more accurate pricing
- Better risk outcomes
With Shepherd, safety, speed, and quality no longer trade off against one another. They compound. We're not just modernizing insurance products. We're building the risk infrastructure for the next generation of financial services, where technology, underwriting, and partnerships operate in harmony to support the world's most important industries and the progress they make possible.
Our Investors
In March 2026, Shepherd raised a $42M Series B — bringing total funding to over $60M — led by Intact Private Capital, the investment arm of one of the largest insurers in the world. Intact is not only our lead investor but also a carrier partner, a testament to the confidence the incumbent industry has in what we're building. Our investors:
- Intact Private Capital, led our Series B round
- Costanoa Ventures, led our Series A round
- Spark Capital, led our Seed round
- Susa Ventures, lead our Pre-Seed round
- Y Combinator
- And several others
Our Team
We're a team of technologists and insurance enthusiasts, bridging the two worlds together. Check out our About page to learn more.
The Role
We're looking for a talented staff software engineer who's passionate about what we're building and ready to do the best work of their career. You thrive on ownership,...
Shepherd provides financial services and insurance solutions tailored for builders and operators shaping the physical world. They focus on smarter underwriting powered by data and technology to modernize commercial insurance with speed, intelligence, and human judgment.
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