Founding Engineer
About us
Zentron is AI for captive insurance operations today, and an AI-native captive insurance firm tomorrow. We're an early-stage startup based in San Francisco, starting with a small wedge, captive taxation and filings, and growing fast from there.
Jeneece is a 4x founder, a strategic hustler, and a sales and partnerships pro.
If you want to work on real business problems at a fast pace, and join a small team of A-players early, read on.
Who I'm looking for
Code is written by agents. So what I care about most is judgment: how you design systems, whether you can tell when the model is wrong, and whether you make sure the numbers actually tie out.
You probably
- have 6+ years of engineering experience and have shipped products people depend on (TypeScript or Python, Postgres, cloud)
- have put LLM features into production: extraction, structured outputs, evals, handling the long tail of weird inputs
- care whether a number is right, and messy PDFs and spreadsheets don't put you off
- like owning the whole problem, including talking to the people who use it
Nice to have
- fintech, insurtech, accounting or regtech experience (ledgers, payments, claims, tax)
- security and compliance work: SOC 2, audit logs, data isolation
- interest in hiring and leading the next few engineers
Probably not a fit if
- you need a full-time big-tech salary from month one
- you'd rather not talk to customers
- you rely on agents but can't explain the code they produce
How the time splits. Until we grow further, it's 70% building and 30% with customers: pilot calls, data onboarding, security handling.
Why captives?
It's a big, growing part of commercial insurance, and its back office still runs on spreadsheets and email. Filing deadlines force people to act, and the work fits AI well: messy documents, strict rules, and a human reviewer at the end. Very little modern software exists for captive managers.
Contact options
The application is enough. I'll reach out to you myself within a few days.