About Kinetic
Backed by Nationwide, we’re transforming workers’ comp with technology-driven solutions for injury prediction, prevention, and management—helping employers create safer, healthier workplaces. We also work directly with enterprise clients.
Our platform is built for labor intensive industries including parcel delivery, manufacturing, and wholesale/warehousing operations. From wearable tech that reduces strain and sprain injuries by over 60% to a tech-driven program that speeds up return-to-work and generative AI for claims management, we're redefining what workers' comp can do.We’re a remote-first team headquartered in New York City, growing fast—10x in the past two years—and driven by accountability, continuous improvement, and collaboration. If you're excited to build a career with impact, we’d love to meet you.
Kinetic has been named to: Business Insurance's Best Place to Work in Insurance 2025
The Role
As a Software Engineer on our team, you’ll be a versatile contributor working across a wide range of projects and technologies in service of Kinetic’s mission. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, build, and maintain full-stack serverless software systems, including scalable backend services, intuitive user interfaces, and reliable internal tools. You will also work on AI-powered features, including autonomous agents and LLM-based applications, as part of our broader platform initiatives. The role provides broad exposure to product development across our platform.
We’re looking for someone who enjoys tackling complex, real-world challenges, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and is eager to learn and adapt as technologies evolve. You’ll contribute to everything from core infrastructure to experimental features, helping deliver high-impact solutions that reduce workplace injuries and improve operational outcomes for our customers. A strong engineering foundation, curiosity, and a collaborative mindset are key to success in this role.
Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and implement robust, scalable, and cloud-native software solutions that directly contribute to Kinetic’s mission.
• Write clean, efficient, well-tested, and maintainable code in a team environment.
• Participate in architecture and code reviews to ensure consistent quality, performance, reliability, and scalability of software systems.
• Implement security, reliability, and observability best practices in software design and development.
• Proactively identify opportunities for improvement in existing systems and processes.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, emphasizing root cause analysis and post-mortem documentation.
• Contribute to projects across the stack—including backend services, internal tools, and AI-powered features—as priorities evolve.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field and at least 3 years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Full-stack development experience in a modern tech stack that includes TypeScript in a cloud environment.
• Experience delivering software from concept through production, including CI/CD, monitoring, and operational support.
• Proven track-record of building and operating large-scale cloud solutions in production while managing technical debt effectively.
• The working language at Kinetic is English.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing and deploying AI features in production software, especially those leveraging LLMs or agentic AI patterns.
• Experience with AWS, serverless, SQL and no-SQL databases, data lakes, stream & batch processing systems, and IoT.
• Strong testing and documentation practices. You can give examples of documentation and testing challenges you have solved in the past and how you would apply those solutions to new environments.
• Experience with production security practices in the cloud including building systems that meet enterprise security standards and industry best practices.

What we offer:

• This is a remote position (candidate must be a full time U.S. resident)
• Competitive base salary plus equity
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 20 vacation days per year
• 9 federal holidays off
• Parental Leave
• Pre-tax 401k contribution
• HSA with compatible health plans
• FREE: Health Advocate
• FREE: Telehealth Membership
• FREE: OneMedical Account