Head of Engineering
InsurGrid
We are looking for a Head of Engineering to join our founding team. We are an early staged startup focused on building Plaid-like technology to create the operations system for the insurance sales process. The team's vision is to provide everyone in the world a frictionless, personalized, and modern insurance buying experience.In this role you will lead the engineering team, establish the technical vision, and contribute to the development of our core product infrastructure. You will act both as a leader and individual contributor to build automation and data extraction processes that will scale our initial product. You will be responsible for leading a team and alignment of the technical direction, while building new products that will accelerate business growth and deliver value to customers. You will work closely with our customers, founding team, and advisor network to have a holistic understanding of the problems we're solving and opportunities in the market. You will take these learnings to develop, prioritize, and execute against a roadmap. You will be expected lead by example, take ownership of our core product infrastructure, ship fast and consistently, iterate rapidly, and identify ongoing opportunities to deliver value to customers.
Who you are
- 6+ years experience as a software engineer building client-side JavaScript (*React, Node.js preferred*) and backends in languages such as Python (Django preferred)
- A strong communicator who can lead software architecture design and development discussions
- A natural team leader who has a solid understanding on what makes a strong, healthy, empowered, and productive engineering culture
- Ability to attract, hire, inspire, motivate, and manage an engineering team
- A track record as a strong individual contributor throughout your software engineer career
- Passion for continuous experimentation and learning, coupled with a desire to make things run faster, better, and cheaper
- Obsessive focus on agile frameworks, upholding/uplifting code quality, and maximizing engineering output
Why InsurGrid?
- Firsthand experience building a company from the earliest stages
- Take on ownership of technical design and implementation
- Work with great agility to accelerate your developer experience trajectory
- Flexible vacation time to promote a healthy work-life balance
- Education and learning stipend for personal growth and development
- Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and benefits
About InsurGrid
The way to buy and sell insurance is broken — we're on a mission to change this. Consumers can connect their bank account to financial apps to manage their money, but can't connect their insurance account to receive a competitive quote. We're building Plaid-like technology to facilitate a modern insurance shopping experience and build developer-first infrastructure.It all starts with the agent. The agent is the main distribution channel for the $684B P&C industry. The agent represents 93% of all P&C insurance policies issued in the United States. The agent is the plumbing behind the insurance industry and they need a platform to make buying insurance frictionless, personalized, and modern.We’ve been moving fast since we founded InsurGrid in January 2020. Since then, we’ve built and launched the initial version of our product to 150+ customers and raised a pre-seed round led by Engineering Capital.
We are currently operating as a fully remote team due to Covid. Our ideal candidate will be in the Pacific or Mountain time zone.
InsurGrid values diversity and is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity. InsurGrid will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.
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