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title: 'Principle Software Engineer at QuoteWell'
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# Principle Software Engineer at QuoteWell

- **Company:** QuoteWell
- **Location:** Austin, TX / HQ
- **Compensation:** $220k–$260k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-11-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/quotewell/6466bd23-598d-46ed-a21f-48454151a92c

## Job description

QuoteWell is building a modern commercial insurance brokerage by combining technology with deep domain expertise. A key part of our vision is an AI assistant powered by emerging LLM techniques that helps brokers anticipate and automate tasks, making their workflows faster, smarter, and more intuitive.

We’re looking for an experienced engineer who wants to shape not just our technology, but also our product direction and business outcomes.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Build impactful products: Own and deliver features in our all-TypeScript stack (React + Node).
- Shape product direction: Partner with Product, Design, and Data to define problems, break them down into incremental solutions, and validate with users.
- Leverage AI in practice: Deliver innovative AI-driven agentic solutions for our insurance experts, designed for a future MCP-driven world.
- Model complex data: Represent insurance data and relationships in intuitive, user-friendly tools that improve decision-making.
- Collaborate and grow: Work in a remote-first, flexible, and accountable engineering culture while learning from teammates (and maybe a bit about insurance too).

## WHAT YOU’LL BRING

- Technical depth: Strong experience with TypeScript, React, and Node (or a very similar stack), and a history of shipping production code.
- Product impact: A track record of influencing product and business direction through engineering insights.
- AI curiosity: Familiarity with or interest in applied AI/LLM techniques and how they can power real products.
- Collaborative skills: Ability to work across the full product lifecycle, specifying features, testing, iterating, and validating with users.
- Generalist mindset: Willingness to learn new technologies and adapt to what the business needs most.
- Flexibility to connect in person: Willingness to travel occasionally to Austin or team offsites..

Location: Remote. Our primary hub is located in Austin, TX, and we have remote employees across the United States. We offer flexible co-working arrangements.

We are a remote-first team, with employees distributed across the U.S. We gather quarterly for co-location sessions (about four days each)

## What we offer our full-time employees

- Competitive salaries + equity in the company
- Medical, Dental, and Vision healthcare benefits + FSA and HSA options
- Flexible vacation policy to recharge and live life
- Paid membership to One Medical for employees, spouses / domestic partners, and dependents
- Company-sponsored 401K plan (Roth & Traditional)
- Paid parental leave, generous family forming benefits and up to $5,000 of reimbursements through Carrot
- Up to $1,000 in home office reimbursements to build a productive space to work remotely
- An opportunity to work on solutions that are redefining the future of commercial insurance
- A culture driven by a focus on impact, a shared growth mindset, empowered individuals, and integrity

## About QuoteWell

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: QuoteWell is a tech-driven wholesale insurance brokerage that combines AI-powered automation with human expertise to simplify complex commercial insurance placements for retail agents and producers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (total funding $32M; latest $12M round led by NEA in November 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, USA
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Joey Bouchard (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Wholesale insurance brokerage (non-admitted / excess & surplus lines market)
- **Target Customers**: B2B – retail insurance agents and independent producers seeking to place hard-to-cover commercial risks (e.g., construction, energy, healthcare, cannabis, real estate, manufacturing)
- **Mission**: “Make working in wholesale insurance a simpler and more successful experience for everyone.”

## Products & Services
- **Alby (AI Agent)**: A proprietary AI assistant that acts as a digital partner for producers, automating workflows and speeding up quoting.
- **Instant Quoting (powered by Herald)**: An automated quoting tool that delivers fast, confident quotes for complex risks.
- **Wholesale Brokerage Services**: Expert placement across a wide range of specialty industries including construction, energy, healthcare, life sciences, cannabis, hospitality, tech, and more.
- **Producer Platform**: A tech-enabled workflow that integrates with existing tools to reduce manual processes and provide transparent, faster outcomes.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $32 million (as of November 2025)
- **Notable Investors**: New Enterprise Associates (NEA, lead), Brand Foundry Ventures, ClockTower Ventures, Goldcrest Capital, Floating Point, plus strategic angel investors
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - $12M additional funding in November 2025 to expand producer footprint in the Southeast and West Coast
  - Continued investment in AI-driven automation within its proprietary platform
  - Partnerships with organizations like the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (2023)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Human+ (H+) Approach**: Blends advanced technology (AI, automation) with deep human expertise and personalized support, creating a “invisible edge” that competitors struggle to replicate.
- **Producer-Led Growth Model**: Empowers producers to build their own book with minimal internal politics, fostering a culture of collaboration over competition.
- **Diverse Carrier Panel**: Access to a wide, differentiated set of non-admitted markets, enabling coverage for tough, hard-to-place risks.
- **Focus on Automation**: Unlike many legacy brokers, QuoteWell has built a purpose-built tech stack that automates quoting and workflows, giving producers real leverage.

## Strategic Focus
- **Geographic Expansion**: Growing producer presence in the Southeast and West Coast regions.
- **Deepening AI Investment**: Continuing R&D on AI-driven automation within the proprietary platform to further enhance producer efficiency.
- **Talent Growth**: Actively hiring brokers and underwriters to scale the producer-led model.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “camaraderie, not competition” – a supportive, humane environment free from internal politics, where brokers can thrive.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Remote-first with an Austin headquarters; company gathers 1–2 times per year. Some roles may require travel.
- **Notable Benefits**:
  - Competitive salaries + equity
  - Medical, dental, vision + FSA/HSA options
  - Flexible vacation policy
  - Paid One Medical membership for employees and dependents
  - 401(k) (Roth & Traditional)
  - Paid parental leave and family-forming benefits (up to $5,000 reimbursement via Carrot)
  - Home office reimbursement up to $1,000
  - Relocation assistance for those moving to Austin
- **Engineering Culture**: Emphasis on building modern tools (AI, automation) in a traditionally outdated industry – a chance to have high impact.

## Sources
1. [quotewell.com](https://quotewell.com/)
2. [quotewell.com/about/](https://quotewell.com/about/)
3. [quotewell.com/producer-careers/](https://quotewell.com/producer-careers/)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/quotewell](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/quotewell)
5. [quotewell.com/company-news/quotewell-secures-additional-12-million-in-funding-to-accelerate-ai-powered-commercial-insurance-wholesale-brokerage/](https://quotewell.com/company-news/quotewell-secures-additional-12-million-in-funding-to-accelerate-ai-powered-commercial-insurance-wholesale-brokerage/)

## Other roles at QuoteWell

- [Senior Underwriter— West Region](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-underwriter-west-region-quotewell-remote-3fpm640ngb45)
- [Broker — Midwest Region](https://feeny.ai/job/broker-midwest-region-quotewell-remote-5nv1kskvdr1c)
- [Staff Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/staff-software-engineer-quotewell-austin-jse8v0ngs2pg) — Austin, TX / HQ
- [Principle Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/principle-software-engineer-digital-ai-bengaluru-afx3hqxqypav) — Bengaluru, India