As an Engineering Director at Openly, you will be responsible for driving alignment with and execution of the engineering strategies for supporting the business within your directorate and across engineering. You will be leading and developing Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers, and collaborating closely with the VP of Engineering, fellow directors, and other senior leaders across the organization to plan and prioritize milestones, evaluate outcomes, and translate those evaluations into next steps. You will play a vital role helping us build sustainable, high quality technology and teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers to effectively manage projects and people within Engineering
• Effectively manage time in the following areas:

Leading, developing, supervising Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers

Planning & prioritizing milestones for people, projects, & processes

Evaluate the timing and outcomes of those milestones

• Translate those evaluations into next steps
• Collaborate closely with the VP of Engineering
• Build and maintain strong relationships with the CTO and other senior leaders across the organization
• Partner with Product Managers to staff cross-functional teams to make impactful changes as quickly and autonomously as possible
• Build and maintain awareness and context of the people side of things through 1:1's with the Engineering Managers who report to you, and skip-level meetings with the engineers who report to them
• Build and maintain awareness and context of the technical details of initiatives through 1:1's and architectural discussions with the Staff Engineers who report to you, as well as reviews of their work
• Build and maintain a strong understanding of core insurance concepts across multiple business domains
• Connect the right person or team to the right work
• Identify and develop key talent to promote internal career growth
• Foster a culture of transparent feedback and communication
• Actively seek ways to improve engagement and happiness on the team
• Be curious in the face of uncertainty; gain the necessary knowledge or set up the necessary milestones to resolve that uncertainty
• Partner closely with the management team, HR, and Recruiting to attract, recruit, provide professional development opportunities for, and level-up diverse teams of high-quality engineers

Our stack

• Backend/Core: Go & Postgresql
• Frontend: Browser-based, VueJS, Webpack, Nuxt &, Tailwind
• Research/Data Science: R, ArcGIS, H2O, & Python
• Infrastructure: Google Cloud, specifically Cloud Run, Cloud Build, and CloudSQL, managed with Terraform. We use GitHub for code hosting and CircleCI for running our CI/CD pipelines.
• Remote work tools: Slack, Zoom, Donut

Requirements

Experience

• Typically requires 12+ years of experience in a broad software engineering domain, 5+ years of that within people management, and 2+ years of that as successful experience leading managers
• Sustained track record of building and leading software engineering teams that have created improvements in business-critical systems around functionality, stability, performance, and scalability
• Demonstrated ability guiding teams to deliver multiple complete projects from start to finish in reasonable overlapping time frames
• Experience guiding and growing teams of teams, balancing engineering needs with business requirements
• Experience developing a strategy or roadmap for your teams
• Ability to think strategically and execute methodically
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent related software engineering experience
• Experience or familiarity with Agile methodologies

Teamwork

• Defaults to a collaborative mindset to work with multiple stakeholders to maximize our resources
• No Egos - focuses on the best outcomes for the engineering organization and the company over ownership of any particular project, process, or people
• Demonstrates high engagement and low attachment
• Excellent written and verbal communication

Accountability

• Comfortable making decisions, and owning and being accountable for results
• A high level of comfort navigating and making decisions and recommendations in environments of ambiguity

Problem solving

• Bias towards action over perfection
• Investment approach - considers long-term horizons to ensure immediate solutions build towards goals
• Iterative approach - optimizes for a regular cadence of small meaningful iterations
• When presented with a complex problem, process, or existing system you are consistently able to reduce the complexity to get more done with less work

Hiring & Team Building

• Strong track record for hiring, retaining, and developing talent
• Passion for fostering DE&I

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