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Chestnut

Senior Product Engineer

CompanyChestnut
Websitechestnutfi.com
RoleSenior Product Engineer
Role taxonomyFull-stack / Product EngineeringSenior
SpecialtiesProduct Engineering
LocationSF or Seattle · Hybrid
Salary
Apply viaApplication linkhttps://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Chestnut · nick@chestnutfi.com
Hiring notes
TechTypeScriptReactGoPostgreSQLKubernetesAWSML/AI
Parsed locationsSF or Seattle
Posted byhilem
PostedMay 1, 2026
SourceView on Hacker News ↗

Original posting

Chestnut | Senior Product Engineer | SF or Seattle (Hybrid) | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Chestnut I'm Nick, CTO & co-founder. We're Rippling, but for insurance carriers paying their sales force. Every policy sold triggers a chain of payouts across brokers, agents, and sub-agents. Today that runs on spreadsheets and legacy vendor systems and tomorrow they'll run on Chestnut. Nationwide and other major carriers have already made the switch. Revenue is up 8x in the last year. We're backed by a16z. Founding team came out of leadership at Ethos (insuretech that recently IPO'd in January). The work is state-heavy and correctness-critical: payouts that must reconcile with finance to the cent, dynamic agent hierarchies, retries, chargebacks, partial failures. These systems move real money and cannot drift. You'll design schemas, build backend logic, ship UI, deploy, and own the sharp edges that show up with real enterprise customers. Stack: Go, TypeScript/React, Postgres, Temporal, Kubernetes, AWS. We use AI aggressively and expect you to as well. We're looking for 3–6 years on real product systems. You're thoughtful about invariants and failure modes. Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Chestnut Email me: nick at chestnutfi.com