About CoverForce
At CoverForce, we're on a mission to transform the insurance industry by making it faster and easier for businesses to get the coverage they need. Now is the perfect time to join our team and help shape the future of insurtech. Thousands of insurance agents and corporate customers depend on our tools to simplify quoting, comparing, and buying insurance policies. We partner with top insurers like Travelers, Liberty Mutual, and Chubb to streamline underwriting and sales, cutting the time spent on a single insurance policy by 75%.
Our Innovative Solutions Include
- Quote and Bind Platform: Trusted by several of the Top 100 insurance distributors in the US, our platform lets agents generate and purchase business insurance quotes with a single click, saving time and eliminating repetitive paperwork. Carriers also use it to digitally empower their appointed agencies.
- Embedded Commercial Product: This allows partners like Walmart, Gusto, and Uber to offer business insurance directly through their platforms using our API. It also integrates with other Agency Management Systems to enhance their quote and binding capabilities.
We're positioned to be the central API for insurance distribution, much like how Plaid has transformed banking. Whether through our user-friendly web platform or our powerful API, CoverForce is here to make insurance purchasing easy, digital and efficient. Join us and be part of a team that's dedicated to innovation and excellence. We are headquartered in New York City and have our engineering team based in India.
The Opportunity
As an engineer at CoverForce, you will work on designing and implementing the core infrastructure of the API platform. You will work on Carrier Integrations, partner integrations, developing the CoverForce engine, and other core features of the product. As we build out our Public API, you will be involved in discussions about the structure, models, synchronicity, and other key decisions of a complex Public facing API.This role is a perfect fit for an engineer who thrives in fast-paced environments looking to build a product from the ground up. You will have the opportunity to take ownership and wear many hats as you develop the product. As an early engineer, you'll impact product development, system architecture, engineering culture, and more. You will work across the stack building out our centralized API and the front-end portal.
We use ReactJS, NodeJS, MongoDB, Docker, and Javascript/Typescript on AWS.
Our product was inspired by talking with 100s of agents and identifying the critical pain points in the quote, bind, and payment process. We see our solution scaling to independent agencies, agency management systems, and corporate customers.
Tasks Will Include
- Integrating with Insurance carriers
- Researching the API of an insurance carrier.
- Designing a solution to integrate with the carrier
- Designing the strategy to develop a unified commercial insurance API to work with multiple carriers.
- Build features for enterprise customers that solve their unique needs while being easily re-useable across other customers
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve the quality, stability, and scalability of our systems.
- Conduct code reviews and provide helpful feedback that maintains our high code quality behind our systems
- Collaborate cross-functionally to solve business problems and continue to support our rapid growth
What We Are Looking For
We are looking for strong, independent engineers who would like to work in a fast-paced environment with lots of responsibility and scale. We have open roles for Backend and Frontend engineers. Ideal candidates will have prior startup experience and the ability to build systems from scratch.
To succeed in this role, you have
- Strong ownership mentality – You take initiative, see projects through from start to finish, and treat the codebase and product as if you built the company yourself
- Exceptional communication skills – You can clearly articulate technical problems, propose solutions, and collaborate effectively across teams. You understand that in a startup, clear pro-active communication is as important as clean code
- Intellectual curiosity and learning agility – You're excited to dive into unfamiliar territory, whether it's insurance domain knowledge, a new carrier's API, or an emerging technology. You ask questions, seek to understand the "why," and continuously expand your skill set
- Comfort with ambiguity – You thrive in environments where requirements evolve, and you can navigate complex systems that require deep domain context
- Pragmatic approach to AI tooling – You actively leverage and experiment with the latest AI development tools (like Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate your work and aren't afraid to build on top of LLM APIs to solve business problems
- Quality-focused craftsmanship – You take pride in writing clean, maintainable code and understand that good testing empowers rather than burdens the team
- 3+ years of production software development experience – Ideally with backend systems (RESTful APIs, databases) and modern web technologies
Nice To Have, But Not Essential
- Previous startup experience and understanding of the rapid pace and evolving priorities
- Production experience with our tech stack: Node, TypeScript, React, MongoDB
- Familiarity with AWS or other cloud environments
- Experience working with external APIs and third-party integrations
What CoverForce Offers
CoverForce has been a
remote-first company in India
since its inception and will always strive to be flexible to employees’ preferences. We know how to cultivate a successful and highly collaborative environment despite the distance. This includes:
- Quarterly virtual events to connect with your team members while celebrating our success and accomplishments
- Clear norms and etiquette around virtual meetings.
- Team building activities every month to let off steam and relax.
