Software Engineer (Contract)

Company: Certive Inc.

Location: Remote (US)

Type: Term engagement

Compensation: $6000/mo

About the role

Certive is building the modern compliance platform for insurance and real estate brokerages: software that tracks every license, never misses a renewal, and files renewals and new applications automatically. We are early, well-funded, and moving quickly. As a Software Engineer, you will be one of the first people writing code at Certive. You will work directly with the founder on the core product — the integrations that pull license data, the automation that files renewals, and the dashboard brokerages open every morning. There is no backlog to pick up and no ticket queue to work through. You will help decide what gets built and then build it. This is a term engagement rather than a salaried position, but the work is real product work shipped to real customers. Strong performance is the most direct path we have to a full-time seat on the team.

What you will do

• Build and ship features across the product, from the interface a brokerage sees to the services behind it.
• Work on integrations with the industry data sources that tell us whether a license is active, when it expires, and what is required to renew it.
• Build automation that completes renewals and new license applications against state and national systems.
• Turn messy customer license spreadsheets into clean, structured, monitored data using AI tooling.
• Build the tracking, alerting, and task-surfacing experience that keeps a brokerage ahead of every deadline.
• Sit in on design-partner conversations, watch people use what you built, and fix what does not work.
• Help establish the engineering habits we will keep as we grow: testing, deploys, and security hygiene.

What we are looking for

• Strong programming fundamentals and the ability to pick up unfamiliar tools and codebases quickly.
• Evidence that you have shipped something end to end — a personal project, a prior internship, or open-source work.
• Comfortable working across the stack and not precious about which layer you are in.
• Clear written communication, and the discipline to work well asynchronously on a small remote team.
• Self-directed and resourceful, with the judgment to make reasonable calls without asking first.
• Fluent with AI coding tools and interested in using them as a genuine multiplier on your output.
• Comfortable with the ambiguity, pace, and ownership of a three-person company.

Nice to have

• Experience with browser automation or web scraping.
• Experience building with LLMs, particularly extracting structured data from documents.
• Interest in regulated industries, compliance, or insurtech and proptech.
• Prior experience at an early-stage startup.

Compensation and logistics

$6,000/mo Fully remote within the US, with meaningful overlap with Eastern time. Contractor role Strong performance can lead to a full-time offer. This posting does not include a benefits package. Certive Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate all candidates on merit and do not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic.