--- title: 'Senior NodeJS Backend Engineer (Context Engineering) at Afori' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-nodejs-backend-engineer-context-engineering-afori-barcelona-ngpjzqs9e6vt' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Senior NodeJS Backend Engineer (Context Engineering) at Afori - **Company:** Afori - **Location:** Barcelona, Spain - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-06-25 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/afori/am9icG9zdDp3aX-BH7HHSyzs-78xh4Nq ## Job description Help change one of the largest global industries: insurance brokerage. ## About Us Our founders have previously built insurance unicorn wefox and are now building the AI layer for insurance brokers. Brokers spend most of their day on back-office work that starts in their inbox, turning messy emails and messages into things that actually need doing. Afori does that work for them. It lives where brokers already are, inside Outlook and WhatsApp, and in our own web app. The product is live and in production with real brokers today. We raised a €4m seed round that was 12x oversubscribed, led by General Catalyst, the early investors in Airbnb, Stripe, and Mistral, with a group of well-known angels alongside them. The founding team built wefox before this, an insurtech that reached a €4.5bn valuation, so we know the industry and we know how to scale. You'd join as one of the first engineers, early enough to shape both the company and the product. Who this role is for We want someone who has already built a product from nothing and stayed to run it in production. An ex-founder, a former CTO, or a lead engineer. You've made the important calls with no one above you to catch your mistakes. Now you want to build again. Not run a company, not manage a team, just point everything you've learned at a hard problem. Ours is the AI agents at the core of the product. It's the hardest problem we have, and we want you to own it. You'd work next to the founders, with the freedom to decide how things get built. This is a hands-on job on purpose. The most useful thing you can do here is write code. ## Your Impact You'll build AI agents that feed our context layer. At Afori, we want to deeply understand our customers and the risks they're exposed to by extracting and synthesizing structured and unstructured data points from multiple channels. You'll design new methodologies for data extraction and context engineering so our agents can advise and serve our customers in the best possible way. Key Responsibilities: - System Architecture: Design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems for AI agent orchestration and real-time data processing. - Build AI agents: Take full ownership in building new AI agents that take over backoffice work on behalf of the broker - AI/ML Collaboration: Partner with AI/ML teams to deploy models into production (e.g., customer insights, task automation). - Performance Optimization: Optimize APIs and microservices for speed, security, and simplicity. - Problem-Solving: Tackle complex challenges in data integration, workflow automation, and system reliability. - Collaboration: Being honest in code reviews and design talks, and keeping the bar high. - Customer focus: Working with the business side so what you build actually solves what brokers struggle with. ## What We’re Looking For Technical Skills: - 5+ years building backend systems in NodeJS & Typescript. - Expertise in cloud-native architectures (AWS/Azure) & Docker. - Strong experience with RAG creation & management, context engineering and agentic memory creation - Strong RESTful API design experience. - Proficiency with relational (PostgreSQL) and distributed systems. - Experience in Kubernetes & Infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) is a plus. - Experience with AI/ML pipelines (model deployment, MLOps) is a strong plus. - Familiarity building with LLMs / agentic workflows would be a plus. Cultural Fit: - You thrive in a high-performance team that moves fast and appreciates data. - You’re hands-on: You do not stop until 100% of the task is delivered - You embody “there’s always a solution”. No task is too ambiguous. Why Join Us? - Collaborate with a small team of top-tier engineers, startup specialists, and industry veterans - Use AI every day. You'll build with tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. - Shape the future of insurance with AI that solves real-world problems. - Say what you think. There's no hierarchy here, just results. - Grow with us: Competitive salary and equity stake in a high-potential AI startup. - Live in Barcelona ☀️☀️☀️ ## Compensation & Benefits - Base Salary: Competitive, based on experience. - Team bonus: Based on achieving team results. - Equity: Stock options in a fast-growing company. - Team Work: Four days a week together in the Barcelona office, because that's where the momentum and the fast decisions come from. One day from home, and flexibility when you need it. ## About Afori ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Afori builds an AI platform that automates administrative and back-office tasks for insurance brokers, starting with email inbox management and tariff comparisons. - **Entity Type**: Private – raised a Seed round (EUR 4M, Oct 2025) and a Pre-Seed round (USD 4.6M, Nov 2025) led by General Catalyst. - **Headquarters**: Barcelona, Spain - **Founded**: 2025 - **Founders**: Fabian Wesemann (CEO) and Sergi Baños (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Insurance technology (InsurTech), AI-powered workflow automation, productivity software - **Target customers**: Insurance brokers (B2B) – specifically their back-office and administrative teams - **Mission or purpose statement**: To give brokers more time for client advisory by reducing their administrative workload through AI; to help brokers continue fulfilling their social role of helping people protect themselves. ## Products & Services - **Afori AI Inbox Agent**: An AI agent integrated with Outlook that reads emails, understands insurance terms and processes, and transforms unstructured communications into structured workflows (tasks, checks, filings). - **Tariff Comparison Agent**: Automatically compares legacy and new tariffs from policy documents, surfacing differences that matter to the client. - **AI Assistant for Insurance Brokers**: Combines a proprietary insurance database (34d, GDV data, legislation) with a broker’s own cases to deliver context-appropriate answers and redact sensitive data. - **General AI Agents**: Specialised agents for repetitive office tasks (emails, customer inquiries, document checks) that learn from the broker’s behaviour without setup or training. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (recent early-stage startup) - **Key Metric**: Total funding – EUR 4M Seed (Oct 2025) + USD 4.6M Pre-Seed (Nov 2025) = approximately USD 9M+ combined; also a prior round of EUR 4M. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: General Catalyst led the Pre-Seed round; the Seed round included 9 investors (not named in the data). The platform connects to “MVP” systems (German insurance industry standard). - **Growth Signals**: Founded in 2025, already 15 employees distributed across Spain, Germany, UK, and Japan (LinkedIn). Active hiring for founding-level roles (Senior Product Manager, Senior NodeJS Backend Engineer, Summer Internship 2026). ## Competitive Advantages - **Insurance-specific AI**: Afori’s database is “filled with insurance-specific knowledge: 34d, tariffs, GDV data, and relevant legislation” – a niche moat. - **GDPR & ISO 27001 certified**: Hosted exclusively in the EU, data processing is documented and verifiable, critical for trust in regulated insurance markets. - **Pragmatic, broker-built**: Co-founders each have 10+ years in insurance (Fabian at wefox, Sergi as first engineer at wefox), and the team includes licensed insurance brokers. - **Zero-setup adaptation**: “Afori learns your way of working and takes on more with every process. Entirely without setup or training.” ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Automating the highest-friction back-office tasks (email inbox, tariff comparison); expanding AI agents to cover more broker workflows; scaling the team with founding and senior talent across engineering and product. - **Direction for growth**: Enabling AI-assisted brokers to serve more clients with personalised advice, while reducing administrative burden; continued expansion into European markets (already has a presence in Germany, UK, Japan). ## Why Work Here - **Culture highlights**: Early-stage startup where new hires are “founding” team members; strong emphasis on pragmatic, service-driven engineering and solving real problems for brokers. Team includes experienced founders who have built companies before, engineers from Amazon, AI researchers, and Wharton graduates. - **Remote/hybrid policy**: Hybrid workspace – employees combine remote and on-site work; typical time on-site in Barcelona, Spain. - **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Opportunity to shape AI agents from the ground up; involvement in context engineering, RAG, microservice orchestration; summer internship tracks in knowledge systems, website redesign, and automation processes. The company is “pragmatic, service-driven, built with and for brokers.” ## Sources 1. [afori.com/en/](https://www.afori.com/en/) 2. [afori.com/en/ressourcen/uber-uns](https://www.afori.com/en/ressourcen/uber-uns) 3. [linkedin.com/company/afori-ai](https://linkedin.com/company/afori-ai) 4. [builtin.com/company/afori/jobs](https://builtin.com/company/afori/jobs) 5. 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