over 1 year ago
Seattle, WA, USA or San Francisco, CA, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of critical systems that serve as platform building blocks.
- Make architectural decisions for scale, performance, and maintainability.
- Partner with product, design, and engineering leaders on roadmaps and technical investments.
- Identify and unblock high-risk areas across teams while diving deeply into implementation when needed.
- Raise engineering standards through mentorship, modeling, and thoughtful code review.
- Help establish engineering culture, norms, and hiring standards.
- Work across backend, data, infrastructure, and frontend layers as needed.
Requirements
- Have 8+ years of experience building and scaling complex software systems.
- Have led architecture or technical strategy for a product or platform team.
- Be comfortable working across backend, data, infrastructure, and frontend layers.
- Demonstrate systems thinking and pragmatic problem-solving ability.
- Be prepared to shape the technical direction of a growing company.
- Have strong communication skills and enjoy working across disciplines.
- Be energized by ambiguity, real-world data, and building for scale.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity with a 10-year exercise window for stock options.
- Remote-first culture.
- Team offsites.
- Take-what-you-need vacation policy.
- Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance.
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About Chestnut
Chestnut builds cloud-based software for insurance carriers and distribution partners to manage producers, commissions, and agent engagement. Its platform centralizes producer management and compensation workflows and includes a mobile app for agents, aiming to turn commissions into a controllable revenue lever. Chestnut is privately held and has raised a seed round from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Liquid 2 Ventures, and Detroit Venture Partners.