Software Engineer

TL;DR: Strala is rebuilding the foundation of the world’s largest industry - insurance.

In less than a year, we reached multi seven-figure ARR and are growing 50% MOM. We raised two rounds from Tier 1 funds including Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, led by the partner who was early in OpenAI, Cognition and Scale AI. Our team comes from institutions like Harvard, Berkeley & Oxford and firms like Optiver, AMD & Palantir (+ICPC, NeurIPS backgrounds).

What we are looking for

- Problem Solver - You love solving hard problems (and have a history of doing so).

- High Agency & Ownership - You take charge and force things into existence - bonus points if you've been a CTO or founding engineer.

- Proven Builder - 2+ years in backend development and Python, with a track record of fast, production-grade code shipping.

- Core System Design - You own and are responsible for our core infrastructure, databases (PostgreSQL, vector DBs), and architecture.

- Cloud Mastery - You know your way around REST, GraphQL, GCP, AWS, Docker.

Your First Month at Strala

- Ship from Day 1 - You deploy to production on your first day and take full responsibility for your code.

- Ownership - You create specs, you figure shit out, you build features.

- Solve Every Problem - Hiring your next teammate, designing core infrastructure, scaling the existing codebase.

Values

- Ambition: We want to win, and we need to be the best

- Performance: Speed, system thinking, efficiency

- Ownership: When we see a problem, we take ownership of it, and we solve it

- Spirit: Clarity, optimism, meritocracy

We Offer

- Impact - Shape a company, redefine an industry, and make your code impact millions.

- Intensity - Complex problems, ownership, in-person in SF - we are here to solve problems and win.

- Reward - Interesting work, top quartile salary, top quartile equity.

- Team - Everyone on our team considers themselves the most competitive and intense person they have ever met.

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