Software Engineer
Company: Modern Life
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $150,000 - $200,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-05-29
About this role
Join our team and *accelerate your career.*
We're building the category-leading AI platform for life insurance distribution. Life insurance is a complex and consequential purchase that impacts hundreds of millions of Americans — and we're transforming how advisors navigate it. Our platform combines AI-powered tools, intelligent automation, and expert support to help advisors better serve their clients, grow their businesses, and bring the future of the industry to life.
We are a high-growth, AI-native brokerage backed by $35M from top-tier investors, including Thrive Capital (major investors in OpenAI, SpaceX, Instagram, Spotify, Slack, and Stripe), New York Life, and Northwestern Mutual.
Join a passionate team of product-minded technologists and insurance professionals who are building the AI infrastructure that will power the next generation of insurance advice. Make a tangible difference in people's lives and help deliver our mission to help everyone protect what matters most.
### What You'll Do
- Build and scale AI-powered products that are transforming how insurance advisors work — from intelligent case management to automated underwriting workflows
- Write high-quality, well-tested code that runs smoothly in production
- Contribute to and lead complex projects, and make business vs technology decisions during all phases of the project lifecycle
- Weigh trade-offs and focus on value delivery. A fast-paced startup demands making trade-offs that balance the near term and long term value add of solutions.
- Help create and uphold our engineering standards and bring consistency to the codebases and processes you build and encounter
### Your Impact
- Shape the best practices, product, and more broadly the culture of the company from an early stage. Your DNA will be deep into what and how we build
- Help define and build the AI platform that is setting the standard for how technology transforms insurance distribution
- Create intelligent, agent...