Engineering Manager- Renewals

About us

Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines broad insurance coverage with a digital risk assessment and continuous security monitoring to help organizations protect themselves in today’s hyper-connected world.

Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real - and happening daily.

About the Role

As an Engineering Manager for the Renewals Team, you will play a pivotal role in leading and managing a team of highly skilled engineers responsible for building and maintaining the Renewals System, a critical component of Coalition's insurance platform. You will be responsible for ensuring that the Renewals System processes tens of thousands of insurance policy renewals reliably and efficiently, ensuring a frictionless experience for our brokers and policyholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate engineering activities to successfully deliver product features on time while designing for quality and scalability
• Provide technical expertise and software engineering guidance to automate processes and improve team efficiency
• Provide management and mentorship to engineers in order to seek out identification of skill gaps and growth needs
• Balance managing technical debt with new feature development and business priorities
• Ensure full software lifecycle instrumentation from requirement ideation to software development to deployment
• Collaborate with Product and Business staff to balance resources and project schedules
• Maintain transparent communication across all levels of the organization
• Actively participate in all phases of growing the engineering organization through recruiting, team building, etc
• Report to a senior engineering leader

Skills and Qualifications

• 7+ years overall software engineering experience with 1+ years experience managing a team of at least 4 people
• Effective in leading and mentoring staff with various technical backgrounds and expertise
• Understanding of software development processes with the experience to apply the best type of engineering methodology to fit a situation or team dynamic
• Experience building high volume distributed systems in a cloud environment
• Proven track record of successfully delivering software and managing projects across multiple teams
• Sufficient level of technical background to objectively evaluate complex project risks and issues
• Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing priorities
• Ability to have meticulous attention to requirements while also maintaining awareness of the overall business objectives
• Experience building API-first CRUD applications using Python, React, SQL
• Expert knowledge of at least one area of computer science/engineering
• Excellent oral and written communications skills at all levels

Bonus Points 

• Prior experience with insurance technologies
• In-depth knowledge of AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, and the Atlassian tool suite
• Experience working in the InfoSec, Tech and Cybersecurity markets
• Experience working with data at scale, data science/analytics, and data collection techniques
• Familiar with building service oriented architectures and distributed systems

Compensation

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The US base salary for this position ranges from $139,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $193,500/year in our highest geographic market. Consistent with applicable laws, an employee's pay within this range is based on a number of factors, which include but are not limited to relevant education, skills, job-related knowledge, qualifications, work experience, credentials, and/or geographic location. Your recruiter can share more on target salary for your location during the interview process. Coalition, Inc. reserves the right to modify this range as needed.

Perks

• 100% medical, dental and vision coverage
• Flexible PTO policy
• Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
• Mental & physical health wellness programs (One Medical, Headspace, Gympass, and more)!
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement

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Why Coalition? 

We’re a remote-first, mission-driven team committed to building a more inclusive culture with people of all different backgrounds. We trust our team members to take responsibility, share ownership, and put in the work to help us in our pursuit to solve digital risk.

Coalition’s exceptional growth stems from its ability