Software Engineering, Manager
Acrisure Technology Group (ATG) is a fast paced, AI-driven team building innovative software to disrupt the $6T+ insurance industry. Our mission is to help the world share its risk more intelligently to power a more vibrant economy. To do this, we are transforming insurance distribution and underwriting into a science.
At the core of our operating model is our technology: we’re building the premier AI Factory in the world for risk and applying it at the center of Acrisure, a privately held company recognized as one of the world's top 10 insurance brokerages and the fastest growing insurance brokerage globally. By using the latest technology and advances in AI to push the boundaries of understanding risk, we are systematically converting data into predictions, insights, and choices, and we believe we can remove the constraints associated with scale, scope, and learning that have existed in the insurance industry for centuries.
We are a small team of extremely high caliber engineers with a diverse background across industries and technologies. Our engineers have worked at large companies like Google and Amazon, high frequency trading companies like Two Sigma and Jump Trading, and a variety of smaller startups, including successful startup founders.
The Role
As a Software Engineering Manager at a fast-growing technology startup, you will operate in a player/coach role to support, enable and empower your team, managing high-performing engineers to make a meaningful impact on our mission. You will provide guidance on technical questions, release management, performance management and career development. You will work collaboratively as part of a cross-functional team, including AI researchers, AI engineers, product managers, and designers to identify and deliver innovative features, systems, and products to better understand risk and surface insights and recommendations for how best to engage that risk in the marketplace. You will produce quality deliverables and inspire and help others to do the same. You are driven by a passion for improving the world through technology and delighting users. As a Software Engineering Manager at a very young company, you will have a tremendous opportunity to help us to turn our vision into reality.
As our engineering organization grows, you will help ensure we keep the talent bar high, and grow the skills and capabilities of your team. You aspire to serve your team, remove roadblocks and give individual contributors autonomy and ownership. You foster an atmosphere of mutual respect, collaboration, welcome diversity of individuals, experiences and opinions.
Our technology runs on Google Cloud and is configured with Kubernetes, leveraging various services in that environment. Our data storage layer includes BigQuery, BigTable, and Postgres. We code primarily in Kotlin, Python, Java, and JavaScript and make use of many frameworks, including Dataflow, Cloud AI Platform, KubeFlow, Spring, and React.
Here are some of the ways in which you’ll achieve impact:
- Lead a team of high caliber engineers to build efficient and reliable technology with a customer-first mindset.
- Be accountable for business-driven technical outcomes.
- Assist in designing and maintaining our tech stack, building when it makes sense, inventing when necessary, and upgrading as tools evolve.
- Contribute technically to projects.
- Champion engineering and operational excellence, establishing metrics and process for regular assessment and improvement.
- Ensure your team runs smoothly. You will need to continually identify technical blockers and work with your team and across teams to clear those blockers.
- Balance competing priorities to ensure we effectively ship new features while resolving defects and managing technical debt.
You may be fit for this role if you:
- 3+ years leading engineering teams to deliver business impact in a fast-paced environment.
- Have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Are excited to work for an early stage company to experiment, discover product-market fit and focus on maximizing business impact.
- Have expertise with modern software tools, libraries, and languages, with experience delivering production code at scale.
- Experience in modern release engineering practices such as Agile.
- Have experience in hiring and managing high performance software engineering teams.
- Possess empathy, kindness towards others, a positive attitude, and self-awareness.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Can work through ambiguity and show good judgment when evaluating the needs of the business.
- Familiarity with machine learning technologies in a software environment is a plus.
- Are willing and able to work from the headquarters in Austin, Texas (preferred), with remote roles considered for the right candidate.
It’s not expected that any single candidate would have expertise across all of these areas. If you are a solid Engineering Manager and eager to work on data or insurance related platforms/products, we are eager to talk to you.