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title: 'Software Engineer at Adapt API'
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# Software Engineer at Adapt API

- **Company:** Adapt API
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-03-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/adapt/dd9996af-a48f-480b-b8fc-53dcfd530816

## Job description

👋 Who we are Adapt API is a venture-backed startup building the agentic operations layer for Property & Casualty (P&C) insurance.

Today, walking into an insurance agency is like stepping into a time machine. Filing cabinets, fax machines, piles of incoming and outgoing mail. What you don't see is that even for the parts that have been "digitized", needless manual work abounds. Few systems communicate directly, leading to endless copy-pasting from emails to various proprietary web portals/desktop apps and back again.

Carrier by carrier, process by process, Adapt is bringing each of those manual and error-prone workflows into our comprehensive agentic platform.

The implementation details are subject to change, but this is our north star, and the future we envision isn't possible without it.

🚀 Why you should join Adapt

- Opportunity to be a foundational team member to a rapidly-scaling post-PMF startup in a massive and largely untapped industry.
- Hard backend/automation engineering problems on day 1. Backend is all we do, and the projects you'll work on will be challenging and interesting.
- Above-market cash and equity
- We’ve raised funding from great investors including top fintech funds, ex-Plaid folks, and insurance industry insiders.

🔍 What we're looking for We are seeking highly autonomous engineers excited about owning the design and implementation of end-to-end workflows for a complex, high-stakes industry and playing a foundational role in the formation of the company.

✅ Responsibilities

- You'll work closely with the team and early customers to build a world-class agentic platform.
- You'll solve hard technical problems from scratch, owning the solution through the entire development lifecycle.
- You'll help define the tech stack/architecture for an evolving product — we're technology agnostic and focus using the right tool for the job.
- You'll contribute to the creation of the team culture, as well as internal tooling and processes.

🛠 Role requirements

- 4+ years professional backend/full-stack engineering experience. Working on large-scale open-source projects works too. You've played significant roles in either crafting AI products, building processing pipelines, or systemic integration of external systems.
- Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent
- Early-stage startup experience (or other similar unstructured, fast-paced environment)
- Live in or willing to relocate to the Bay Area to work full-time in our SF office

💫 Nice to haves

- Experience with web scraping, email scraping, browser automation — in general just getting data creatively out of hard-to-reach places
- TypeScript/JavaScript experience in a professional or large-scale OSS setting. If you have a comprehensive side project you think is equivalent, send it our way! Clear, concise, and extensible code is important to us and collaborating with others is often a forcing function to that end.
- Experience integrating with low tech industries, or other time spent integrating with poorly documented, antiquated APIs (and sometimes even a lack thereof).

Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications? Please drop us a line anyway - we look forward to hearing from you!

## About Adapt API

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Adapt API provides an automation infrastructure layer for the P&C insurance industry, eliminating manual document processing and notification monitoring for independent agencies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: Approximately 2021 (Pre-Seed round closed June 2021)
- **Founders**: Jacob Simon (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Insurance technology (Insurtech) – specifically Property & Casualty (P&C) agency operations.
- **Target customers**: B2B – independent insurance agencies (sweet spot: $1M+ revenue), agency aggregators, and networks.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To give agencies their time back by eliminating the manual servicing bottleneck that has plagued the industry for years. [scoutinsurtech.com](https://www.scoutinsurtech.com/post/scout-insurtech-interview-with-adapt-api)

## Products & Services
- **Adapt Platform (SaaS)**: Securely connects to insurance carrier portals, automatically retrieves, standardizes, and routes documents and notifications into agency management systems (AMS) like Applied Epic, HawkSoft, Vertafore AMS360, Worksmart, ImageRight, and Sagitta. Achieves a **95% reduction in document processing time** and zero missed notifications. Setup takes **15–30 minutes** with no complex implementation. [adaptinsurance.com](https://adaptinsurance.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding amount not publicly disclosed (Pre-Seed round in June 2021 with 3 investors). Based on venture-backed and currently in stealth regarding funding details. [scoutinsurtech.com](https://www.scoutinsurtech.com/post/scout-insurtech-interview-with-adapt-api)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Vertafore Orange Partner program, HawkSoft integration, multiple AMS integrations; investors from Pre-Seed round not individually named.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **133.3% YoY** (13 employees as of mid-2026). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/adapt-insurance)
  - Doubled integrated carrier portals, adding 1–2 new carriers per week.
  - Onboarded multiple large agency networks and aggregators.
  - Reduced manual servicing costs by 3–4x for existing customers. [scoutinsurtech.com](https://www.scoutinsurtech.com/post/scout-insurtech-interview-with-adapt-api)
  - LinkedIn followers grew **67% yearly**. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/adapt-insurance)

## Competitive Advantages
- **True automation vs. offshoring**: Eliminates the need for outsourced manual processing – AI does the work instantly, accurately, at a fraction of the cost.
- **Deep AMS integrations**: Works with major agency management systems, enabling agencies to keep existing workflows intact.
- **Security & compliance**: SOC 2 Type II certified; offers one-time carrier setup with standardized naming and filing that meets compliance requirements.
- **Immediate time savings**: Saves account managers **15–20 hours per week** and reduces E&O exposure from missed notifications.
- **Low friction adoption**: 15-minute setup, no disruption to existing workflows. [adaptinsurance.com](https://adaptinsurance.com/)

## Strategic Focus
- Expand carrier portal coverage to support all national and regional carriers.
- Partner with brokers and wholesalers to extend into the E&S market.
- Improve AMS integrations to further streamline workflows.
- Strengthen AI-driven automation for policy endorsements and renewal tracking. [scoutinsurtech.com](https://www.scoutinsurtech.com/post/scout-insurtech-interview-with-adapt-api)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & stage**: Early-stage, venture-backed startup with rapid growth. The team is small (13 people) – impact per employee is high.
- **Work environment**: In-office (San Francisco, CA) – all roles listed as on-site at HQ (576 Sacramento St, Floor 5). [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/adapt-adaptinsurance-com)
- **Open roles** (as of mid-2026):
  - Customer Success & Operations Associate
  - Backend Engineer
  - GTM / RevOps Engineer
- **Engineering culture**: Technical team makes up ~29% of headcount. Stack includes TypeScript, JavaScript, HubSpot, Stripe, Segment, Plaid, and more. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/adapt-insurance)
- **Impact**: Directly responsible for building the infrastructure that transforms how hundreds of agencies operate – with measurable results like saving clients 15–20 hours per week.

## Sources
1. [adaptinsurance.com](https://adaptinsurance.com/)
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/adapt-insurance)
3. [scoutinsurtech.com](https://www.scoutinsurtech.com/post/scout-insurtech-interview-with-adapt-api)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/adapt-adaptinsurance-com)
5. [adaptinsurance.com/how-it-works](https://adaptinsurance.com/how-it-works)

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