Engineering Manager (Remote, US)

Why Openly

Openly is rebuilding insurance from the ground up. We are re-envisioning and enhancing every aspect of the customer experience. Doing this requires a rapidly growing team of exceptional, curious, empathetic people with a wide range of skill sets, spanning technology, data science, product, marketing, sales, service, claims handling, finance, etc.

The Openly Difference

We created Openly because we saw an evident gap in the market for premium insurance made simple. Consumers deserve more complete coverage at competitive prices.

• The Price Difference: Using cutting-edge data and technology, we provide you with customizable, competitive prices to protect your most valuable assets.
• The Policy Difference: Coverages are truly customizable to meet your individual protection needs, for both standard coverages and optional add-ons.
• The Experience Difference: From tailored claims handling to highly responsive customer service, we are focused on making the home insurance purchasing process a better overall experience.

Welcome to your next adventure.

At Openly, our people are just as important as our product. For us, collaboration, communication, and work-life balance are more than nice-to-haves— they’re the must-haves that make us who we are. We believe a great company is the result of a shared set of values, so we look for these qualities in every candidate we hire. 

• Integrity
• Empathy
• Teamwork
• Curiosity
• Urgency

We've designed our hiring process with you, the candidate, in mind. At every step, you have the chance to present your strengths and learn more about what makes Openly a great place to work.

We're committed to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

We embrace individuality and believe diverse teams are winning teams. Our commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experience drives us forward every day.

Job Details 

We're hiring an Engineering Manager to drive their team's people, projects, and processes forward. In this position, you will play an essential role in growing and developing engineers to deliver mission-critical functionality to the Openly platform that will power our insurance products and customer experiences.

Key Responsibilities 

• Manage, support, and mentor a diverse group of engineers
• Give engineers the tools, confidence, and motivation to make choices that result in recognition for themselves and not just for yourself
• Remove roadblocks for your team and escalate when you need additional context or direction
• Drive your team toward their career goals, identify milestones, and set them up for success along the way
• Promote a culture of feedback and transparent communication
• Partner with internal stakeholders on feature definition and drives breakdown of work to support organization objectives
• Partner closely with the management team, HR, and Recruiting to attract, recruit, and develop a diverse team of high-quality engineers
• Proactively maintain alignment between business goals and objectives with the team's day-to-day work
• Work to resolve or escalate issues that serve as roadblocks and place deliverables and goals at risk
• Gain and maintain visibility into trade-offs between options and priorities to positively influence the approach taken by the team
• Design feedback loops to incorporate members' feedback into continuous improvement activities

Our stack

• Backend: Go & Postgresql
• Frontend: Browser-based, VueJS, Webpack, Nuxt &, Tailwind
• Research/Data Science: R, ArcGIS, Jupyter Notebooks, & Python
• Data: GCP GCS, BigQuery, Composer/Airflow, Cloud Functions, Postgres, SQL, Python, Go, Aiven Debezium and Kafka, Fivetran
• Infrastructure: Google Cloud, specifically Cloud Run, Kubernetes, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, and CloudSQL, managed with Terraform. We use GitHub for code hosting, DataDog for monitoring, and CircleCI for running our CI/CD pipelines.
• Remote work tools: Slack, Zoom, Donut

Requirements

• Experience guiding a group of diverse, bright, and motivated engineers while balancing their needs with business requirements
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 5+ years of engineering experience and 3+ years of management
• Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders to maximize our resources
• Highly autonomous with the