Ignition Benefits · San Jose, CA, US · In-office · Posted 1mo ago
$180k - $200k
The AI-Native Benefits Brokerage
About Ignition
Ignition Benefits is the AI-native employee-benefits brokerage for companies with 25–200 employees. We believe the $900B+ employer benefits market is broken: opaque, manual, and stuck in the 1990s. We are changing that with technology, transparency, and a radically better client experience. We're backed by Y Combinator and Equal Ventures, and our CEO previously built and sold Plated for $300M, the largest exit in Shark Tank history. You are joining a team that knows how to build and scale.
Where You'll Create Impact
• Build full-stack web apps our customers and our own ops team use every day • Ship features end to end — architecture, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and beyond • Build AI agents and durable workflows that run our back office — processes that run for weeks, wait on external systems, and resume where they left off • Put agents in production, not in demos — human approval, evals, observability, etc • Integrate third-party tools and external systems, proactively managing edge cases and risk • Debug hard production issues and fix them for good • Raise the bar through code reviews and technical discussions
What Sets You Up for Success
• 5+ years in full-stack engineering (TypeScript/Node.js/PostgreSQL/React and modern backend/frontend tooling and frameworks) • Deep experience with complex business-logic products • Solid understanding of system design, data schema design, and scalability • Strong code quality standards and attention to detail — you can write code without AI, and you use it spec-driven, not vibe-coding • Bonus: Python (FastAPI), LangGraph, Temporal; experience building ReAct loops, RAG
How You Operate
• Hybrid — 3 days in the office with the team, 2 remote • Hardcore work ethic and high agency — you deploy daily, iterate fast, and don't wait for permission • You own the product, not just the ticket — no PM will hand you a spec • Curious about new AI tooling and how to make agentic workflows reliable
Why You'll Thrive Here
• Equity ownership in a YC-backed AI company disrupting the legacy employee-benefits industry • Small, senior engineering team led by a CTO who scaled a startup engineering org from 2 to 50+ • Learn the industry from a founding team with decades in employee benefits • Get the AI engineering experience the market values most, on real systems with real customers • Your feedback shapes the product directly • High-speed, high-trust environment with high expectations
Compensation
• Base: $180,000 – $200,000 • Equity: 0.15% – 0.35% • Medical, dental and vision — we're a benefits brokerage, ours are worth having • 401(k)
Join us: automate what's boring, solve what's hard, and build the agentic platform this industry has never had.