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Herald

Herald

Digital insurance API aggregating multiple carriers

Frontend Engineer - AI Products

Full-TimeUpdated on 9/20/2026
$140k - $200k/yr

+ Variable compensation + Commission + Bonus + Equity

Junior
New York, NY, USA
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About the job

Requirements
  • At least 1 year of professional experience in frontend development with strong expertise in React.
  • Experience building production web applications and contributing to project setup or new feature development.
  • Proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), and modern React features such as Hooks and Context.
  • Ability to interface with a Python Flask backend to integrate APIs, debug data flows, and extend functionality as needed.
  • Ability to write backend logic and make Postgres queries to support frontend features.
  • Familiarity with styling libraries and user-interface frameworks such as TailwindCSS, Material UI, Styled Components, or Storybook.
  • Ability to contribute in a fast-paced startup environment and help take products from 0 to 1.
Responsibilities
  • Lead development of a new web application from scratch, including architecture, tooling, and best practices.
  • Define and implement frontend architecture for scalability, performance, and maintainability.
  • Build robust, user-friendly, and responsive interfaces using React, TypeScript, and modern libraries.
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to deliver seamless user experiences.
  • Establish automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing strategies to ensure code quality.
  • Optimize application performance, maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, and stay current with industry trends.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with Next.js or other server-side rendering frameworks.
  • Background in cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and DevOps practices.
  • Knowledge of micro-frontend architectures and integration strategies.

About the company

Herald offers a digital infrastructure platform for the commercial insurance market. It provides a single API through which insurance companies and their partners can quote and bind policies from more than sixty carriers, reducing the time to market for new products. The API comes with extensive documentation and support, helping clients integrate quickly and focus on improving customer experiences. Herald also helps clients connect to digital-distribution sources and add new partners without long implementation efforts, offering insights into the distribution ecosystem. Revenue comes from charging clients for API access and related services. Unlike providers that sell standalone workflow solutions, Herald supplies the infrastructure that carriers and partners use to deliver insurance experiences to customers. Overall, Herald’s goal is to simplify multi-carrier integration, enable embedded insurance experiences, and expand digital distribution in the commercial insurance space.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$20M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2021

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • October 8, 2025 Babbix waitlist started with cyber, proving demand for AI-assisted quoting.
  • April 27, 2026 profitability messaging around a 50% margin brokerage signals stronger unit economics.
  • QuoteWell and Broker Buddha integrations show Herald still wins distribution through embedded commercial workflows.

What critics are saying

  • Herald depends on carrier integrations; one major carrier withdrawal fractures the unified API value proposition.
  • Babbix’s inbox automation targets brokers, but incumbents like Vertafore and Applied accelerate similar AI features.
  • If Herbert cannot expand beyond connectivity, carriers commoditize it and brokerages switch to direct integrations by 2027.

What makes Herald unique

  • Herald’s unified API spans 35+ carriers and 80 products across commercial lines.
  • July 17, 2025 Babbix acquisition adds email-native AI into broker workflows.
  • July 15, 2026 Guidewire Vanguards membership validates Herald’s infrastructure inside enterprise insurance stacks.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Company Equity

Hybrid Work Options

401(k) Retirement Plan

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Paid Vacation

Paid Sick Leave

Paid Holidays

Relocation Assistance

Parental Leave

Home Office Stipend

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

-2%

2 year growth

1%
Beinsure
Jul 21st, 2025
Herald acquired Babbix, an email-native AI agent developed for brokers

Herald, a provider of digital infrastructure for commercial insurance, has acquired Babbix, an email-native AI agent developed for brokers

Coverager
Jul 17th, 2025
Herald Makes Strategic Leap with Acquisition of AI-Powered Insurtech Babbix

New York, NY - July 17 2025 - Herald, who builds digital infrastructure for commercial insurance, has acquired Babbix, an email-native, AI agent purpose-built for brokers.

VCNewsDaily
Oct 17th, 2024
Herald Raises $12 Million Series A

BOSTON, MA, Herald, the leading digital infrastructure provider for commercial insurance, announced a $12 million Series A funding round.

Citybiz
Oct 16th, 2024
Herald Raises $12 Million

Herald, the leading digital infrastructure provider for commercial insurance, announced a $12 million Series A funding round co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Brewer Lane Ventures with participation from Afore Capital and Underscore Venture Capital.

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Mar 15th, 2024
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