Software Engineer

About Crux

Crux is an insurance technology company, part consulting firm, part software company, built by people who have spent decades in the industry. We help agencies modernize how they operate, and we build the software that powers it.

Crux Studio is our automation platform, combining AI document extraction, visual workflow automation, and deep integrations across AMS systems, carrier portals, and data sources to automate insurance operations end-to-end.

Join founders who come from Applied Systems, Vertafore, ImageRight, and TechCanary. We have also worked directly inside agencies, so we know what it actually takes to run one. We're insurance people who have built insurance technology for decades.

The Role

You'll be one of the earliest engineers at Crux, working directly with the founders to build the core platform. That means full-stack product work, backend integrations with AMS and carrier systems, and AI agent development.

At Crux, Claude Code and agentic AI tools are not a perk or a side experiment. They are how we build. We expect every engineer on this team to use AI tools as a core part of their daily workflow, not occasionally, not experimentally, but as the default. If you are not already working this way, this is not the right role. If you are, and you want to work somewhere that takes that seriously, keep reading.

The product moves fast. Priorities shift. Things get built, tested, and sometimes thrown out. We fail fast, learn fast, and ship fast. If you need a clearly defined spec and a stable roadmap to do your best work, this is not the right environment. If you thrive in ambiguity and get energy from figuring things out in real time, you'll fit right in.

This is not a role where you execute a roadmap handed to you. You will help shape what gets built, how it gets built, and why.

What We're Working On

• Fine-tuning models, building RAG pipelines, and engineering prompts for the insurance industry — and building full agent chat lifecycles that handle real customer interactions end-to-end
• Cutting-edge data extraction and evaluation pipelines that push the limits of what AI can reliably pull from complex, unstructured documents
• New ways to dynamically generate and deliver content; rethinking how information gets created and surfaced.

What You'll Do

• Build and ship product across the full stack, front-end, back-end, and infrastructure
• Build and iterate on AI agent workflows, prompt systems, and document extraction pipelines
• Use agentic development tools as the primary way you write and ship code
• Work directly with customers and the implementation team to turn real workflow problems into platform features
• Help establish engineering patterns and standards as the team grows

What You Bring

• Strong engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping production software
• Experience with modern TypeScript and at least one backend language
• You are already using Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent agentic tools as a core part of how you work
• Comfort building and iterating on AI-powered systems, agents, or LLM integrations
• An instinct for keeping things simple and pragmatic
• Ability to work across the stack without needing a specialist for every layer
• High autonomy, low ego, and a bias for getting things into production
• You are comfortable being uncomfortable — the ground shifts here, and that is a feature, not a bug
• Insurance or vertical SaaS experience is a plus, but absolutely not required

What We're Working On

• Cutting-edge data extraction and evaluation pipelines that push the limits of what AI can pull from complex insurance documents
• Fine-tuning models for the insurance industry and building full agent chat/voice lifecycles that handle real customer interactions end-to-end
• New ways to dynamically generate and deliver content — rethinking how information gets created and surfaced

The Stack

Next.js, React, TypeScript, Vercel, MongoDB Atlas, Google Cloud Platform, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Gemini APIs

Why This Role

You will be a core part of a founding team building a vertical AI platform in an industry that is years behind on automation. The problems are not toy problems. The customers are real, the workflows are complex, and the technical depth is real.

Most software companies would never give an engineer this much access, ownership, or say in where things go. At Crux, you are not a team resource. You are helping build the company.

Small team, direct ownership, short feedback loops. You will build things that genuinely change how an entire industry operates.