Staff Software Engineer

Instnt is pioneering a new insurance category by merging AI-powered identity fraud protection with insurance solutions. The role involves conducting technical audits, optimizing systems, and leading engineering efforts to enhance performance and scalability.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct a technical audit of the current platform, including frontend, backend, infrastructure, workflows, performance, and reliability risks
• Assess the existing stack and identify the highest-impact opportunities to improve scalability, reliability, latency, and developer velocity across the platform
• Create a clear and pragmatic execution roadmap, sequencing what should be tackled first, second, and third across architecture, workflows, and product-critical initiatives
• Remain deeply hands-on in coding, refactoring, and optimization work across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure layers
• Partner closely with product and data science to translate business, model, and customer requirements into elegant production systems
• Advise on pragmatic architectural decisions that balance startup speed with long-term scalability
• Raise the engineering bar through strong code quality, thoughtful reviews, and hands-on mentorship of engineers and contractors
• Leverage AI-powered development tools and modern engineering workflows to increase speed and quality