Avallon AI
AI agents for insurance claims operations
Founding Software Engineer
About the role
Please apply at https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/avallon/8e97bb07-6120-4bc0-8376-f9e0d6998ef8
About Us
Insurance runs on manual work nobody wants to do. Here at Avallon, we're building agentic systems to transform the repetitive, monotonous tasks the insurance agency is faced with daily. We grew revenue 20x in 10 months since Y Combinator, raised from top investors and are scaling fast. Our backgrounds span top institutions like MIT, Harvard, and Cornell, and our work includes published research in NLP.
The Role
We're hiring our Founding Software Engineers to own the foundation on which every agent and product at Avallon is built. We have autonomous voice and worker agents in production replacing thousands of manual tasks everyday, adapting to brand new scenarios, and serving the world's largest insurance carriers.
What You'll Own
The agent execution platform, the core harness powering every agent at Avallon: turn handling, tool orchestration, session lifecycle. You own provider routing, multi-provider failover, cost optimization, latency-aware model selection. You build the eval platform that catches regressions before customers do: per-run evals, canary deployments, automated regression detection. And you own the developer platform that unlocks team velocity with coding agent workflows, internal tooling and CI/CD.
How we build
A forward-deployed engineer sits with a customer on Monday, surfaces a pain, and hands it off to you. By Friday, you’ve specced the solution, assigned a coding agent to build it, reviewed the output, and shipped it. That’s not aspirational, that’s the current cycle. We design systems, write technical specs, and orchestrate AI agents to execute.
You
- Comfortable in a founding role as you shape the platform and the product direction.
- High agency, full ownership. You’re the driver, not a contributor.
- TypeScript, SQL, 4+ years building production software.
- Built reliability infrastructure with retries, circuit breakers, graceful degradation and observability.
- Regulated or security-sensitive environment experience. Every action needs a trail.
- Based in NYC or willing to re-locate.
A few things we believe in
- Eating well: We provide lunch and dinner every workday from local restaurants.
- Staying healthy: 100% of medical, dental, and vision insurance covered, along with a generous monthly gym stipend.
- Getting out of the office together to recharge: quarterly offsites somewhere you actually want to go.
- And our favorite: unlimited token budget. No caps, no rationing, no "can you try a smaller model." Build with whatever makes you fastest.
Please apply at https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/avallon/8e97bb07-6120-4bc0-8376-f9e0d6998ef8
About the interview
- Intro with Founder
- Focus on culture fit
- Discuss interest in Avallon
- Learn about the candidate’s past projects
- Share background on the founding team
- Technical Interview (1.5 hours)
- General software engineering questions
- Best practices discussion
- Walk through a sample repository full of bad practices and ask candidates to identify and improve them
- Final Round
- Culture fit conversations
- Meetings with other team members
About Avallon AI
Engineering autonomous insurance agents
Avallon creates AI agents that make claims operations teams an order of magnitude more efficient. We grew revenue 10x in 3 months during Y Combinator, raised from top investors and are scaling fast. Join us in putting AI to work in this $100B opportunity in insurance claims.
Claims operations are perfect for AI: repetitive work, high costs, and an aging workforce. We're automating everything from intake to settlement using voice AI and machine learning, creating AI agents that handle entire workflows autonomously.
We're a team of engineers and operators with deep industry experience. We've scaled technology in complex, traditional industries and built products trusted by Fortune 500 companies. Our backgrounds span top institutions like Cornell and HSG, and our work includes published research in NLP.
Principles
- Engineering mindset: We apply engineering principles to solve all challenges, technical or otherwise.
- Extreme agency: We act decisively, take ownership, and drive outcomes.
- Simplicity is sophistication: We strip away complexity to focus on what matters.
- Candid communication: We speak clearly and build trust through openness.
Life at Avallon
Avallon is backed by top venture capital firms including YC, Frontline, 1984, Liquid 2, and Boom, enabling us to hire the best and compensate accordingly.
- Comp: We offer premium compensation packages because we understand the outsized results that come from small, talent-dense teams.
- Health: We cover 100% of medical, dental, and vision insurance, along with a generous monthly gym stipend.
- Office: We highly value in-person and have a gorgeous office in Williamsburg, NYC.
- Meals: We provide lunch and dinner every workday from local restaurants.
- Retreats: We prioritize quarterly off-sites to help our teams recharge and refocus.
