About this Senior Engineer – AI Native Products role at Honeycomb Insurance
Honeycomb Insurance
At Honeycomb, we're not just building technology; we’re reshaping the future of insurance.
In 2025, Honeycomb was recognized by Dun & Bradstreet as “Top 10 Best Start Up Companies to Work For” in Israel, named by LinkedIn as “Top 10 Startups in Chicago”, and Newsweek’s "Greatest Startup Workplaces in America, 2025". Through the first half of 2026 we’ve been recognized on Inc. Magazine’s "Best Workplaces" List and Forbes "Fintech 50".
How did we earn these honors?
Honeycomb is a rapidly growing global startup, generously backed by top-tier investors and powered by an exceptional team of thinkers, builders, and problem-solvers. Dual-headquartered in Chicago and Tel Aviv (R&D center), and with 6 offices across the U.S., we are reinventing the commercial real estate insurance industry, an industry long overdue for disruption. Just as importantly, we ensure every employee feels deeply connected to our mission and one another.
With over $100B in insured assets, Honeycomb operates across 23 states, covering more than 65% of the U.S. population and increasing its coverage.
If you’re looking for a place where innovation is celebrated, culture actually means something, and smart people challenge you to be better every day - Honeycomb might be exactly what you’ve been looking for.
What You’ll Do
This is an opportunity to make a real impact: You’ll work independently, taking full ownership of complex, end-to-end challenges from initial scoping all the way to production.
- Own end-to-end development of complex features from ideation to production: architecture, implementation, testing, and deployment
- Make independent tradeoff decisions, balancing speed, scale, maintainability, and user value
- Use AI tools including Claude Code, ChatGPT, and others as a natural part of your daily workflow: for coding, debugging, drafting, and problem-solving, not as a side experiment but as a real productivity multiplier
- Actively explore and advocate for better ways to work whether that’s a new AI tool, a smarter workflow, or a technique that saves your team an hour a week
- Collaborate across engineering, product, and design to align on priorities, timelines, and technical solutions
- Work through ambiguity by framing constraints, narrowing options, and proposing actionable solutions
- Deliver clear technical outcomes and help translate them into measurable business impact
Basic Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience, primarily in Node.js or Java
- Proven experience shipping features in SaaS or product-led environments, including prioritization, tradeoffs, and iteration
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent field
- Strong ownership mindset: ability to identify opportunities, drive solutions, and close the loop
Nice to Have
- Hands-on experience using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, to meaningfully accelerate your development workflow
- Experience with TypeScript
- Frontend experience with a framework such as Angular (preferred), React, or Vue
- Experience working in a NoSQL database such as MongoDB
- Experience with Kubernetes and/or Docker deployment
- Experience with Loveable
- Experience with logging services such as Datadog or Splunk