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Berkley Hunt

Founding Software Engineer

Company: Berkley Hunt

Location: San Francisco, CA

Posted on: June 19

Berkley Hunt is working with a stealth-mode, venture-backed startup that's rethinking how legacy industries handle data exchange, starting with the massive, outdated world of commercial insurance. Their mission is to bring modern API infrastructure to a space still dominated by manual workflows and disconnected systems. Imagine the kind of transformation Plaid brought to banking, but applied to a sector that's long overdue for change.


Senior Backend Engineer | Full-Time Onsite (San Francisco)


Role Responsibilities:

  • Build and scale a robust API-driven product in close collaboration with the founding team and early customers
  • Design core system architecture and choose the right tools for long-term scalability
  • Lead technical decision-making and contribute meaningfully to team culture and internal processes
  • Help shape the future of the product and the broader engineering org


Requirements:

  • 4+ years of professional backend or full-stack development experience
  • Strong experience in API design, systems integration, or processing pipelines
  • Excited to build foundational infrastructure from scratch and own it end to end
  • Comfortable in fast-paced, ambiguous environments like early-stage startups
  • Based in or willing to relocate to the Bay Area (role is full-time onsite in SF)


Nice To Have:

  • Experience with web/email scraping, RPA, or creatively accessing hard-to-reach data
  • Professional or OSS experience with TypeScript/JavaScript
  • Previous work integrating with legacy or poorly documented APIs
  • A track record of shipping high-quality, extensible code in high-ownership environments