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Staff Backend Engineer - Core AI

Anzen is an insurtech company founded in 2020 that specializes in executive risk insurance, offering a technology-enabled marketplace for brokers and proactive risk management tools for businesses. They leverage AI and integrations with HR and finance systems to streamline the insurance process and help companies mitigate management liabilities.

Anzen

Employee count: 11-50

Salary: 200k-230k USD

United States only
Anzen was founded by former insurance and tech executives who’ve collectively scaled three unicorns. Backed by leading investors like Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Madrona, we’re on a mission to transform how companies choose and understand commercial insurance using AI.
Commercial insurance today runs on emails, PDFs, and lengthy underwriting cycles — often taking weeks to secure coverage. Anzen is building the world’s first AI insurance platform for brokers, radically improving how they manage submissions, select markets, and generate quotes for their clients.
We've built a team from top universities, with experience scaling products at Google, Uber, Lyft, Oracle, and startups founded by the best investors in the world, and are continuing to scale our team in Mexico, Canada, and the United States.
You will build our core technology to ensure it can scale to hundreds of millions of dollars in insurance policies and use ML to help insurance underwriters be 5-10x more effective.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Design & Product to translate fuzzy broker pain points into concrete, AI capabilities that perform equally or better than human experts.
  • Own the full ML lifecycle from framing business problems into research problems, evaluating results and rolling them out with the appropriate infrastructure.
  • Architect production‑grade systems that marry real‑time inference with human‑in‑the‑loop review and comply with strict privacy & audit requirements.
  • Elevate engineering quality, driving technical roadmaps and championing best practices
  • Mentor our Engineering team and help define Engineering culture at Anzen.

What we’re looking for

  • 8+ years building data‑intensive or ML‑driven backend systems
  • Production mindset: you’ve shipped business critical models with measurable business impact (latency, cost, ROI).
  • Broad ML toolbox, from classic ML (especially NLP) to GenAI
  • Strong backend fundamentals: distributed systems, streaming data pipelines
  • Fluency in Python and/or TypeScript in a production environment.
  • Startup DNA: thrive in ambiguity, bias to action.

Why Join Anzen:

Come join us in reinventing the future of insurance.
Work with advanced technologies in a rapidly growing industry.
Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.
A collaborative and innovative company culture focused on excellence and integrity.
Be part of a company that values proactive risk management and cutting-edge solutions.

Company Culture:

Anzen believes the world of work is fundamentally different in the new post-Covid environment. We are committed to supporting a diverse and hard working team that puts in the necessary time but also desires balance between health, family, and work. We fully embrace remote work lifestyles while centering our weeks around Pacific Standard Time (PST) with a general orientation to San Francisco as the geographic HQ.

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Salary: 200k-230k USD

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Anzen, a name that translates to 'safety' in Japanese, embarked on its mission to reshape the executive risk insurance landscape in 2020. Founded by a team of seasoned insurance and technology executives, including CEO Max Bruner, who had collectively experienced the challenges and inefficiencies of the existing market, Anzen was born out of a desire to 'fix the pain points and inefficiencies no one else would'. This founding principle became the bedrock of the company's approach, driving their commitment to leveraging technology and deep industry expertise to create a better experience for brokers and policyholders alike.

The journey began with a clear vision: to modernize how brokers access and manage specialty insurance markets, particularly in the complex realm of executive liability. Recognizing that businesses, especially startups and small to medium-sized enterprises, faced significant hurdles in navigating D&O (Directors and Officers), Employment Practices, and Fiduciary insurance, Anzen set out to build a platform that would simplify these processes. The company understood that the traditional methods were often cumbersome, time-consuming, and lacked the proactive risk mitigation strategies that modern businesses require. By integrating with core HR and finance systems, Anzen aimed to provide not just insurance coverage, but also actionable insights and tools to help companies identify and proactively address potential risks before they escalate into costly claims. This proactive stance, combined with a commitment to using artificial intelligence and machine learning to better understand and underwrite risk, quickly set Anzen apart. The company's focus on creating a seamless, efficient, and 'practically pain-free' experience resonated with retail brokers across the United States, who were seeking a partner that understood both the nuances of retail distribution and the art of selling specialty lines. Backed by leading investors in technology and insurance, Anzen continues to innovate, driven by the belief that it's time for a fundamental shift in the industry—one that ultimately improves the experience for everyone involved, especially the policyholder.

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