Senior Frontend Engineer, Jerry

Organic User Growth

Salary not provided
React
AWS
React Native
GraphQL
Redis
Postgres
Next.js
DynamoDB
Senior level
Austin
Boston
Los Angeles
New York
San Francisco Bay Area
Toronto
Jerry

AI car insurance comparison

Job no longer available

Jerry

AI car insurance comparison

201-500 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceMarketplaceCarsInsuranceMachine Learning

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
React
AWS
React Native
GraphQL
Redis
Postgres
Next.js
DynamoDB
Senior level
Austin
Boston
Los Angeles
New York
San Francisco Bay Area
Toronto

201-500 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceMarketplaceCarsInsuranceMachine Learning

Company mission

To save customers time and money on car expenses.

Role

Who you are

  • Bachelor’s in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline
  • 5+ years of experience in software development
  • Hold an exceptionally high bar for code efficiency and quality
  • Have a strong sense of urgency, ownership, and accountability

What the job involves

  • At Jerry, we are building the first AllCar™ super app to help people optimize all aspects of owning a car, an essential expense that costs the average person more than 20% of their income every year
  • We have aggressive goals to scale our business and grow from 5M to 50M users by 2030, and we need a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our small and mighty organic user growth team!
  • Reporting directly to our CTO, Musawir Shah, you will be building a powerful frontend system for our web app that will support our ability to dominate search engines, publish mass amounts of articles, and drive our organic traffic
  • With your expertise, we can reach customers all over the United States and make Jerry a household name
  • Optimization and speed are your domains, and you will stop at nothing to ensure that code quality across your work is exemplary
  • Develop, maintain, and optimize our web app using best practices
  • Proactively resolve or mitigate technical gaps that may negatively impact our SEO metrics like crawlability, site speed, etc
  • Collaborate with PMs, designers, data scientists, and other stakeholders to ensure best SEO practices and optimize for performance and speed
  • Be the gatekeeper for code quality by ensuring scalability, readability, and performance
  • Foster a culture of continuous learning and growth by sharing knowledge and ideas
  • Our technical stack:
  • Language and frameworks: Typescript: Nest.js, Next.js, React, React Native, Expo
  • API: GraphQL
  • DB: Postgres, DynamoDB, Clickhouse, Redis
  • Infrastructure: Built on AWS, microservice architecture with containerized services deployed on ECS and EKS. Asynchronous processing functions running on Lambda

Otta's take

Theo Margolius headshot

Theo Margolius

COO of Otta

Most drivers in America don’t shop around before renewing their car insurance due to the complexity of comparison sites. Jerry simplifies this process with an AI-powered service requiring minimal personal details to search and secure insurance contracts. Initially focused on insurance comparison, Jerry has expanded into auto refinancing.

Jerry stands out by offering a fully automated experience and comprehensive services for car ownership, including repairs and maintenance, unlike its competitors. These features have made Jerry the most downloaded and top-rated app in its category.

In 2023, Jerry raised $110 million in Series C2 financing, led by Park West Asset Management and others. The funding will expand the app’s services, including GarageGuard, which provides maintenance cost estimates and partner discounts, and DriveShield, which tracks driving scores and offers rewards. Serving 4 million Americans, Jerry has become the top broker for several major insurance carriers and is well-positioned for further growth in the $250 billion US auto insurance industry.

Insights

Led by a woman
Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-13% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Jun 2022

$88m

SERIES C

Aug 2021

$75m

SERIES C

Total funding: $229m

Company benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • 401K & Stock Options
  • PTO (with up to 20 days rollover)
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Full training, leadership development and growth opportunities

Company values

  • Passion for Excellence - We want to feel proud to be members of this team—and proud of the experience we provide our customers. That boils down to the excellence of work that each of us delivers. Simply put, our bar is high. It doesn’t matter how quickly you move if the work quality isn’t high. We hire and inspire people with a passion for excellence.
  • Sense of Urgency - We have big ambitions and important work to do. We value people who operate with a sense of urgency so we can achieve those ambitions, fast. As our company grows, this sense of urgency is even more important. That’s why we hire and promote people who embody this trait.

Company HQ

Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA

Founders

After working as a Knowledge Management Analyst at SAP America, they founded Care Workforce, an online marketplace for nursing shifts and co-founded YourMechanic, a nationwide on-demand car repair service. They have incubated both Jerry and YourMechanic at Y Combinator.

After finishing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Central Florida, They worked as the Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA, an AI computing company, before becoming the Vice President of YourMechanic (founded by Art). Before co-founding Jerry with Art, they worked as the Principal Engineer at BrightEdge, an AI engine for digital content.

Lina Zhang

(Vice President of Operations)

After a Ph.D. at Dartmouth College and a Juris Doctor degree at Berkeley School of law, they were an attorney at Morrison & Foerster LLP. They then became the VP of Operations at YourMechanic before co-founding Jerry.

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