Senior Software Architect / Engineering Lead
Senior Software Architect / Lead Engineer (Remote)
About AACI Group
AACI Group, Inc. is dedicated to making insurance more accessible and affordable in catastrophe-prone regions. Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of wildfires and other natural disasters, while carriers are retreating from high-risk markets. Homeowners are being left with fewer and more expensive options. We are addressing this challenge by building AI-native insurance agencies and digital services that combine risk data, loss prevention, and innovative product delivery.
Role Overview
We are hiring a Senior Software Architect / Lead Engineer to set the technical direction for AACI Group's platform and ship the code that brings it to life. This is a hands-on, coding-first role, not a "meetings and diagrams" architect seat. You will design the systems across our business lines, and you will write production code alongside the team that builds them.
You are the ideal candidate if you...
Still write code daily and lead by doing
Have worked across enough stacks to make sharp tradeoffs without belaboring them
Treat AI tooling as a force multiplier in both how you work and what you build
Take ownership of outcomes, not just architecture diagrams
Move quickly without sacrificing reliability or maintainability
We are building the ship as we are flying it, and we need a technical leader who can keep the platform stable today while compounding leverage for what we are building tomorrow.
Key Responsibilities
Own the architecture of AACI Group's platform end-to-end, including customer-facing products, internal operations tooling, and our suite of automations and integrations
Write production code daily as a working member of the engineering team
Lead technical direction across services, set the bar for code quality, and raise the engineering team's overall capability through review, mentorship, and example
Design systems that meet our scalability, performance, and reliability requirements while remaining simple enough for a small team to operate
Integrate LLMs, agents, and AI-native capabilities into real products in ways that move metrics, not demos
Partner with Product, Design, and Operations to translate ambiguous business problems into shippable systems
Document tradeoff decisions clearly so the rest of the company can move in lockstep
What Success Looks Like in 6 Months
Core platform decisions have been made and are documented in a way that anyone on the team can defend
You are shipping production code on critical paths, not just reviewing it
The engineering team is faster, the codebase is healthier, and the technical bar is visibly higher than when you started
AI-native capabilities are embedded in our products in measurable ways
Qualifications
15+ years of professional software engineering experience
5+ years of production Node.js, with fluency in at least one additional stack
Demonstrated architectural ownership of real systems built and operated end-to-end
Shipped products that use LLMs, agents, or other AI capabilities in production, not just prototypes
Strong system design fundamentals across scalability, performance, and reliability
Proven leadership experience driving technical direction across a team
Fluent written and verbal English
Comfortable in a startup environment where priorities and approaches shift
Location, Compensation, and Reporting
Remote, full-time, long-term engagement
Significant overlap with US working hours expected if working outside the US
Reports to our Engineering Leader
Competitive compensation
Meaningful equity package
Why Join Us
This is an opportunity to set the technical foundation for an AI-native insurance company addressing climate risk and housing affordability head-on. Your architecture decisions, and the code you write to back them up, will directly shape whether families in high-risk markets can stay in their homes.