Principal Software Engineer
About the job
- Strong experience with TypeScript, React, and Node or a very similar stack, and a history of shipping production code.
- A track record of influencing product and business direction through engineering insights.
- Familiarity with or interest in applied artificial intelligence and large language model techniques and how they can power real products.
- Ability to work across the full product lifecycle, specifying features, testing, iterating, and validating with users.
- Willingness to learn new technologies and adapt to what the business needs most.
- Willingness to travel occasionally to Austin or team offsites.
- Own and deliver features in the all-TypeScript stack, including React and Node.
- Partner with Product, Design, and Data to define problems, break them down into incremental solutions, and validate with users.
- Deliver artificial-intelligence-driven agentic solutions for insurance experts, designed for a future Model Context Protocol-driven world.
- Represent insurance data and relationships in intuitive, user-friendly tools that improve decision-making.
- Work in a remote-first, flexible, and accountable engineering culture while learning from teammates.
About the company
Quotewell is a subscription-based platform that streamlines commercial insurance submissions for independent agents by consolidating carrier questions into a single form and securely routing data to multiple carriers. It is designed with input from local agencies to match real workflows and reduce manual back-and-forth. The platform uses data science and software engineering to automate data flow, speeding quotes and coverage decisions. Its goal is to help agents grow their book of business by saving time on administrative tasks and increasing client activity, differentiating itself by aligning closely with agents’ workflows across multi-carrier submissions.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Early VC
Total Funding
$27M
Headquarters
Austin, Texas
Founded
2021
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- QuoteWell raised $12 million in October 2025, reaching $32 million total capital.
- The August 2026 Range launch expands margin capture beyond brokerage commissions.
- Herald integration and 60-product quoting deepen agent stickiness and workflow dependence.
What critics are saying
- Relying on construction specialty exposes QuoteWell to cyclic project delays and claim severity.
- Range Underwriters directly collides with entrenched wholesalers like Amwins and Ryan Specialty.
- If underwriting losses spike, reinsurance support tightens and the underwriting model breaks quickly.
What makes QuoteWell unique
- Range Underwriters launched in August 2026 with proprietary construction excess wrap programs.
- QuoteWell combines wholesale brokerage, AI-driven submission workflows, and human underwriting judgment.
- It targets independent agents with carrier connectivity across admitted and E&S products.
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Benefits
- Competitive salaries + equity in the company
- Medical, dental, & vision
- FSA and HSA options
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Paid membership to One Medical
- Company-sponsored 401K plan (Roth & Traditional)
- Paid parental leave
- Family forming benefits & reimbursements through Carrot