Software Engineer II

Job description

Who we are:
Nirvana is on a mission to harness the power of data to revolutionize commercial insurance and enable a safer world.

We are bringing much-needed innovation into the legacy, trillion-dollar commercial insurance industry.

We have developed cutting-edge predictive models that use real-time IoT data from billions of connected devices, allowing us to better understand and price risk.

Our AI-driven platform fundamentally changes the way an insurance company operates with personalized risk scoring, faster underwriting, modernized claims, and proactive, data-driven insights to help customers prevent accidents.

We've already proven the scale—reaching well over $100 million in premiums and more than doubling year over year.

Our data moat is growing exponentially with more than 20 billion miles of telematics data, leading to more predictive models and new insights into how we can better understand and reduce risk.

Altogether, our loss ratio, efficiency, and customer experience are redefining what can be done in the industry.

With $170+ million raised, including an industry-leading Series C round in January 2025, we're only accelerating our growth, with strong support from top-tier VCs including Lightspeed, General Catalyst, and Valor.

Nirvana's leadership team has previously helped scale multi-billion-dollar companies from scratch, including Samsara, Rubrik, and Flexport, and includes industry veterans from Hiscox, The Hartford, and RLI.

About the role:
We're looking for a Software Engineer who can contribute independently as well as work effectively with a team that's growing a modern commercial insurance product from the ground up.

Your focus will be on enhancing our customers' experience with an emphasis on improving claims adjustment, billing processes and our suite of tools designed to help fleets monitor and improve safety.

You will join a global team and collaborate with engineers, product managers and designers based in Santiago, San Francisco and Bangalore.

At Nirvana, we also believe in clear and structured career growth.

You will start your journey as a Software Engineer II and will be encouraged to grow and develop towards a promotion to Senior Software Engineer.

What you'll do:

• Take ownership of key product features, guiding them from concept to launch with a strong customer focus
• Build both back-end and front-end features using a modern, open-source stack (Go, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, AWS, Terraform)
• Experiment and innovate with AI and LLM-driven features to continually improve our products
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Designers, Data Scientists and Infra Engineers to deliver seamless experiences for insurance brokers, fleet owners, and customers
• Develop tools and workflows to improve road safety and educate customers on risk and reduction strategies
• Instrument customer journeys and iterate to improve user experiences and reduce friction
• Help shape and strengthen our team culture, through mentorship, open communication, and thoughtful feedback

About you:

• At least 2 years of experience building web applications using modern technologies such as Go, , Python, or similar on the backend, and React, Vue, GraphQL or similar technologies on the frontend.
  
  You understand the fundamentals of cloud/microservices architectures for communication, storage and infrastructure.
  
  
• Passion for learning and leveraging the latest AI technologies to drive your work and improve the end-user experience.
  
  
• Flexibility as an engineer, and excited to work across both front-end, back-end and infra as needed.
  
  You may not be an expert in every area, but you're eager to learn, adapt, and contribute wherever the team needs you most.
  
  
• Strong communication skills, both written & verbal
• Thorough critical thinker who isn't afraid to make decisions
• Self-starter who independently seeks out opportunities to learn & succeed
• Bias-to-action - you're not afraid to get your hands dirty & stretch yourself
• Owner mentality - take accountability for your actions & results
• Successfully able to work in high-growth & ambiguous start-up environments

Benefits:

• Hired through Deel (Chilean employment contract) — includes payroll, benefits, and compliant hiring
• Work essentials provided — MacBook and a one-time home office setup reimbursement
• Health & wellness support — Monthly reimbursements for private health insurance (Seguro Complementario) and wellness activities
• Parental leave — Paid time off for bonding and recovery
• Flexible time off — Take time when needed with our flexible vacation policy
• Competitive compensation — Includes bi-annual performance and salary reviews
• Global connection — Join our annual company offsite with the entire Nirvana team

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