Engineering Lead – Front-End Focused

Description

• Serve as a hands-on engineering leader and a technical expert • Nurture and mentor a small team of top engineering talent • Work with product management to develop and maintain a roadmap for your team • Drive your team to innovate and deliver roadmap features with agility and high quality • Writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code in Javascript/Typescript and familiarity with JS frameworks/libraries (Angular, React or Vue) • Experience with backend development (Ruby/Rails, Node.js, or similar) and a strong understanding of full-stack architecture, APIs, and data flow between frontend and backend systems • Leading pair programming sessions and providing mentorship to more junior team members • Driving and fostering design or architectural tasks • Participating in daily stands and weekly retros • Collaborating with cross-functional team members, including Product and PMO • Execute consistently, rapidly, and effectively to take ideas from concept to production and scale • Maintain high availability of products and quick response to any production incidents • Represent your team and product line in cross-functional discussions

Requirements

• Leadership experience in software development & strong computer science fundamentals • Serves as the go-to person for key projects, proactively identifying and mitigating risks to ensure successful delivery. • Experience leading a small team of engineers in a player coach role. • Strong design and architecture exposure in building large scale software solutions using cloud technologies • Experience in designing, implementing and maintaining high performance, high availability (24x7), large-scale web based software applications using modern programming languages • Experience with Ruby and Rails is nice to have • Experience with Relational and No-SQL databases, message queues/brokers • Exposure to BI & big data technologies including Looker, BigTable is nice to have • Strong communication skills and ability to grasp and convey complex product requirements or technical concepts • Ability to work in a fast paced, iterative development environment • Excellent command of software development life cycle activities including analysis, design, development, unit and system testing, production deployment and post-production support • Knowledge of the Insurance Industry & Products is a big plus.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance • Short and Long Term Disability Insurance options • Employee Assistance Program • Elective voluntary benefits such as accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, legal assistance and pet insurance • Competitive salary and company equity through Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) • 401K with company match of up to 4% of eligible earnings • Flexible PTO for exempt employees (typically 15-20 days annually) • 8 company-observed holidays • Paid parental leave program that provides 100% salary continuation of up to 14 weeks for birthing parents and 8 weeks for non birthing parents • Continuing education and professional development opportunities

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