Job Description
Staff Software Engineer – Platform & Data Infrastructure
Location: Hybrid, New York
Salary: Up to $300,000 + Competitive Equity
Industry: API / Fintech / AI Data Infrastructure
Who You’ll Join:
Join an NYC startup building the “Plaid for insurance” a universal API that unlocks insurance as a core financial data primitive for companies like Hertz, Avis, and Audi. Axle powers mission-critical insurance data extraction, validation, and verification so decisions that once took hours of phone calls and paperwork now happen in seconds.
With funding from Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund), Y Combinator, Soma Capital, Contrary, Rebel Fund, BLH Ventures, and angels from Plaid and Cox Automotive, the company is growing ARR 5x year-over-year to multiple millions and is embedded in flows at Fortune 500 banks and leading brands. You will join a 20-person team in Flatiron/NoMad at the stage where technical decisions still shape the platform and category.
What You’ll Do:
• Build and maintain durable, scalable systems capable of processing millions of data transactions per month.
• Define API-driven interfaces that make the data platform turn-key for a wide range of customer applications.
• Design and implement AI-led techniques to improve the accuracy and reliability of insurance data integrations.
• Take on the hardest technical challenges, from reaching 99.9% accuracy in inference-based data transformation to building highly reliable browser agents for new data access.
• Mentor and pair with junior and senior engineers, helping cultivate a collaborative, high-bar engineering culture.
• Work directly with the CTO and founding team to own large product and platform areas and help build out the broader engineering organization.
• Partner with product and go-to-market teams to solve real-world customer problems where errors have direct consequences (denied lending, compliance status changes, etc.).
Who You Are:
• 6+ years of experience as a full stack or backend engineer, including leading projects or teams at venture-backed startups.
• Strong experience designing, scaling, and operating backend and data systems in B2B software or fintech environments.
• Comfortable staying hands-on in the code while providing technical leadership and direction.
• Creative problem-solver who cares about real-world customer impact, not theory alone, and keeps up with modern AI approaches.
• Excited by messy, high-variability data and building systems that standardize and integrate it at scale.
• Bonus: experience with AI/ML-powered data extraction, browser-based agents, or financial/insurance data pipelines.
Tech Stack:
TypeScript, Node.js, AWS
Why You’ll Thrive:
• Join a company with strong traction and momentum, powering mission-critical flows at Fortune 500 banks and brands like Hertz, Avis, and Audi, with ARR growing 5x to multiple millions.
• Work in a massive, under-digitized market where a universal API for insurance data has no true incumbent, and errors have real consequences.
• Help define the technical direction, architecture, and engineering org structure at Staff level, with scope that is hard to find at later-stage companies.
• Tackle technically differentiated challenges at the intersection of AI, data infrastructure, and fintech, including industry-first evals, inference-based transformations, and self-healing agents.
• Join a well-funded Seed company backed by Gradient Ventures, YC, and operators from Plaid and Cox Automotive, ahead of the next funding round, with meaningful equity upside.
This role is open to US citizens, Green Card holders, and TN visa holders only.
Location: Hybrid, New York
Salary: Up to $300,000 + Competitive Equity
Industry: API / Fintech / AI Data Infrastructure
Who You’ll Join:
Join an NYC startup building the “Plaid for insurance” a universal API that unlocks insurance as a core financial data primitive for companies like Hertz, Avis, and Audi. Axle powers mission-critical insurance data extraction, validation, and verification so decisions that once took hours of phone calls and paperwork now happen in seconds.
With funding from Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund), Y Combinator, Soma Capital, Contrary, Rebel Fund, BLH Ventures, and angels from Plaid and Cox Automotive, the company is growing ARR 5x year-over-year to multiple millions and is embedded in flows at Fortune 500 banks and leading brands. You will join a 20-person team in Flatiron/NoMad at the stage where technical decisions still shape the platform and category.
What You’ll Do:
• Build and maintain durable, scalable systems capable of processing millions of data transactions per month.
• Define API-driven interfaces that make the data platform turn-key for a wide range of customer applications.
• Design and implement AI-led techniques to improve the accuracy and reliability of insurance data integrations.
• Take on the hardest technical challenges, from reaching 99.9% accuracy in inference-based data transformation to building highly reliable browser agents for new data access.
• Mentor and pair with junior and senior engineers, helping cultivate a collaborative, high-bar engineering culture.
• Work directly with the CTO and founding team to own large product and platform areas and help build out the broader engineering organization.
• Partner with product and go-to-market teams to solve real-world customer problems where errors have direct consequences (denied lending, compliance status changes, etc.).
Who You Are:
• 6+ years of experience as a full stack or backend engineer, including leading projects or teams at venture-backed startups.
• Strong experience designing, scaling, and operating backend and data systems in B2B software or fintech environments.
• Comfortable staying hands-on in the code while providing technical leadership and direction.
• Creative problem-solver who cares about real-world customer impact, not theory alone, and keeps up with modern AI approaches.
• Excited by messy, high-variability data and building systems that standardize and integrate it at scale.
• Bonus: experience with AI/ML-powered data extraction, browser-based agents, or financial/insurance data pipelines.
Tech Stack:
TypeScript, Node.js, AWS
Why You’ll Thrive:
• Join a company with strong traction and momentum, powering mission-critical flows at Fortune 500 banks and brands like Hertz, Avis, and Audi, with ARR growing 5x to multiple millions.
• Work in a massive, under-digitized market where a universal API for insurance data has no true incumbent, and errors have real consequences.
• Help define the technical direction, architecture, and engineering org structure at Staff level, with scope that is hard to find at later-stage companies.
• Tackle technically differentiated challenges at the intersection of AI, data infrastructure, and fintech, including industry-first evals, inference-based transformations, and self-healing agents.
• Join a well-funded Seed company backed by Gradient Ventures, YC, and operators from Plaid and Cox Automotive, ahead of the next funding round, with meaningful equity upside.
This role is open to US citizens, Green Card holders, and TN visa holders only.
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Staff Software Engineer – Platform & Data Infrastructure position is now open for candidates interested in the IT Engineer & Developer Jobs sector. This role in New York City offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in IT Engineer & Developer Jobs is a plus.
