Founding Front-End Engineer — Design-Driven
Afori
Software Engineering, Design
Barcelona, Spain
Posted on Mar 22, 2026
Founding Front-End Engineer — Design-Driven
Barcelona
Engineering
In office
Full-time
About Us
Afori is changing the way of work in one of the world’s largest industries - insurance.
We’re an AI-first company with a vision to enable the insurance industry to embrace an agentic world. We are doing this by crafting AI agents curated to the insurance industry that simplify brokers' everyday work. Our platform is designed to automate backoffice work, starting with the highest frequented tool - the email inbox. Afori AI understands insurance processes, eliminates manual workflows, and uncovers growth opportunities — all while fostering a culture of radical candor, high performance, and relentless problem-solving for our customers, while having a lot of fun🙂.
In just a few months, we have been able to launch a first product and onboarded the first users, raised a 12x oversubscribed €4m seed round from General Catalyst (early investors in Airbnb, Stripe, Mistral) and high profile angels (Mustafa Suleyman - CEO Microsoft AI, Alex Rinke - Founder&Co-CEO Celonis). We are an experienced founder team with deep sector understanding, as well as deep understanding of how to scale a startup, having built Insurtech unicorn wefox (peak valuation of €4.5bn) before. You will get the opportunity to join a fast-scaling startup as one of the first employees and significantly shape the future of the company and the insurance industry.
Our Core Values:
🎯 Customer Centricity: We iterate with high velocity until we solve the core problems of our customers.
✨ Simplicity: We love simple solutions.
🛡️ Honesty: We live radical candor and psychological safety.
🔧 Hands-On Approach: We take ownership and deliver.
🏆 Dream Team: We play to win! And we always win together and we lose together.
✅ Solutions: Don’t worry, there is always a solution.
Your Impact
You’ll be the second frontend engineer on the team. Until now, most of our frontend focus has been on our Outlook add-in — that’s where the product started. We’re now building out our web application: the cockpit where customers see and manage their AI agents. This is largely greenfield, and it’s yours to own.
We’re looking for someone who cares deeply about how things look and feel — not a designer, but someone who notices when spacing is off, when a layout is cluttered, or when a flow just doesn’t feel right.
Key Responsibilities:
- Building out the customer cockpit from the ground up — the main web-app interface for managing AI agents.
- Translating product requirements into interfaces that are clean, clear, and actually pleasant to use.
- Caring about the details — good spacing, consistent typography, layouts that just feel right.
- Building and maintaining a component system that keeps things consistent across the app.
- Integrating with backend APIs and working closely with the team on data flows.
- Keeping the codebase maintainable as things move fast.
What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years in frontend development with React and TypeScript.
- You have an eye for design — spacing, typography, visual hierarchy. You're not a designer, but bad UI bothers you and you can do something about it.
- Solid with TailwindCSS, HTML5, CSS3.
- Experience with state management (Redux or similar) and build tools (Webpack, Vite).
- Comfortable integrating RESTful APIs.
- Bonus: experience building SaaS, CRM, or ERP products, ideally in insurance or fintech.
Nice to have
- Experience building dashboards or data-heavy management interfaces.
- Experience with AI products or automation tools
Cultural Fit:
- You’re obsessed with solving core problems for our customers.
- You take pride in delivering results, no matter the challenge.
- You embody “there’s always a solution” — you figure it out, always.
Why Join Us?
- Collaborate with a small team of top-tier engineers, startup specialists, and industry veterans
- Embrace AI on daily bases, you will be able to use agentic development tools like cursor or claude code.
- Co-develop a young company where your input has tangible results
- Shape the future of insurance broking with AI that solves real-world problems.
- Grow with us: Competitive salary and equity stake in a high-potential AI startup backed by global Tier 1 investors
- Live in Barcelona ☀️☀️☀️
Compensation & Benefits
- Base Salary: Competitive, based on experience.
- Team bonus: Based on achieving team results.
- Equity: Stock options in a fast-growing company.
- Team Work: We value working together, in person, but of course offer flexibility when needed
We’re an equal-opportunity employer. Diverse perspectives fuel our “Dream Team”—we’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone competes (and wins) together.
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Req ID: R12