Senior NodeJS Backend Engineer
About Us
Afori is completely changing the way of work in one of the world’s largest industries - insurance.
We're an AI-first company with a vision to enable the insurance industry to embrace an agentic world. Afori is an AI platform built specifically for insurance brokers, designed to automate back-office tasks starting with the inbox. The Afori AI understands insurance processes, transforms unstructured communications into structured workflows, and frees brokers to focus on customer relationships and growth. Seamlessly integrated into Outlook, Afori is pragmatic, service-driven, and built with and for brokers. All while fostering a culture of radical candor, high performance, and relentless problem-solving for our customers, while having a lot of fun 🙂
Our product is already live and in production with insurance brokers, and we've raised a 12x oversubscribed €4m seed round from General Catalyst (early investors in Airbnb, Stripe, Mistral) alongside high-profile angels. We are an experienced founder team with deep sector understanding, as well as deep understanding of how to scale a startup, having built Insurtech unicorn wefox (peak valuation of €4.5bn) before. You will get the opportunity to join a fast-scaling startup as one of the first employees and significantly shape the future of the company and the insurance industry.
Our Core Values:
🎯 Customer Centricity: We iterate with high velocity until we solve the core problems of our customers.
✨ Simplicity: We love simple solutions.
🛡️ Honesty: We live radical candor and psychological safety.
🔧 Hands-On Approach: We take ownership and deliver.
🏆 Dream Team: We play to win! And we always win together and we lose together.
✅ Solutions: Don’t worry, there is always a solution.
Your Impact
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll architect the systems powering our AI-driven platform, directly transforming how insurance professionals operate. You will design, build, and refine AI agents that solve problems no one has tackled before, unlocking new possibilities for the future of agentic AI in insurance.
Key Responsibilities:
- System Architecture: Design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems for AI agent orchestration and real-time data processing.
- Build AI agents: Take full ownership in building new AI agents that take over backoffice work on behalf of the broker
- AI/ML Collaboration: Partner with AI/ML teams to deploy models into production (e.g., customer insights, task automation).
- Performance Optimization: Optimize APIs and microservices for speed, security, and simplicity (embracing our Simplicity value).
- Problem-Solving: Tackle complex challenges in data integration, workflow automation, and system reliability.
- Culture & Collaboration: Champion “radical candor” in code reviews and team discussions to elevate technical quality.
- Customer Alignment: Work business to ensure engineering efforts directly address customer pain points (Customer Centricity in action).
What We’re Looking For
Technical Skills:
- 5+ years building backend systems in NodeJS & Typescript.
- Expertise in cloud-native architectures (AWS/Azure) & Docker.
- Strong experience with RAG creation & management, context engineering and agentic memory creation
- Strong RESTful API design experience.
- Proficiency with relational (PostgreSQL) and distributed systems.
- Experience in Kubernetes & Infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) is a plus.
- Experience with AI/ML pipelines (model deployment, MLOps) is a strong plus.
- Familiarity building with LLMs / agentic workflows would be a plus.
Cultural Fit:
- You thrive in a high-performance team that moves fast and appreciates data.
- You’re hands-on: You do not stop until 100% of the task is delivered
- You embody “there’s always a solution”—no task is too ambiguous.
Why Join Us?
- Collaborate with a small team of top-tier engineers, startup specialists, and industry veterans
- Embrace AI on daily bases, you will be able to use agentic development tools like claude code, cursor or codex
- Shape the future of insurance with AI that solves real-world problems.
- Radical candor culture: Your voice matters—no hierarchy, just results.
- Grow with us: Competitive salary and equity stake in a high-potential AI startup.
- Live in Barcelona ☀️☀️☀️
Compensation & Benefits
- Base Salary: Competitive, based on experience.
- Team bonus: Based on achieving team results.
- Equity: Stock options in a fast-growing company.
- Team Work: As a fast-growing company and team, we value working together, in person, but of course offer flexibility when needed
