Strala is completely rebuilding the foundation of the world’s largest industry - Insurance Claims Processing.
In just three months, we reached six-figure ARR and raised a 13x oversubscribed $3.8M seed round from Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, led by the partner who was early in OpenAI and Scale AI, and Emergence Capital. Our team comes from the top AI labs at Oxford, Cambridge, and ETH Zurich.
Problem Solver - You love solving hard problems (and have a history of doing so).
High Agency & Ownership - You take charge and force things into existence - bonus points if you’ve been a CTO or founding engineer.
Proven Builder - 5+ years in Python and backend development, including 2+ years in startups (<50 people).
Infrastructure & Databases – Expert in PostgreSQL, vector databases, cloud (GCP, AWS), and Docker.
Scalability & Performance – Previously scaled systems 100x and shipped foundation model-based products.
APIs & Systems Design – Extensive experience with REST, GraphQL, GCP, AWS, Docker.
Bonus – Strong knowledge of LLM agents, including limitations, robustness, tools, and function calling.
Ship from Day 1 - You deploy to production on your first day and take full responsibility for your code.
Ownership - You create specs, figure shit out, build features & core infrastructure - all with a focus on scalability.
Leadership & Hiring - You find, hire, and lead a team of top-tier engineers.
Ambition: We want to win, and we need to be the best.
Performance: Speed, system thinking, efficiency.
Ownership: When we see a problem, we take ownership of it, and we solve it.
Spirit: Clarity, optimism, meritocracy.
Impact - Shape a company, redefine an industry, and make your code impact millions.
Intensity - Complex problems, ownership, 9-9-6 in-person in SF - we are here to solve problems and win.
Reward - Interesting work, top quartile salary, founding equity.
Team - Everyone on our team considers themselves the most competitive and intense person they have ever met - and we all come from the world’s best institutions.
Zero Barriers - We want the best people and will do whatever it takes. That includes full relocation support, covering all meals, and paying for any product that makes you more productive.
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