Engineering Manager

Highwing is growing its product & engineering team to support our customer growth and continue developing our open data platform for commercial insurance.

The engineering manager specializes in engineering management and is a manager of people. Engineering Managers at Highwing see their team as their product. While they are technically credible and know the details of what engineers work on, most of their time is spent safeguarding their team's health, hiring a world-class team, and putting them in the best position to succeed. They own the delivery of product commitments and are always looking to improve productivity. They must also coordinate across departments to accomplish collaborative goals.

You're an experienced engineering manager passionate about building teams. You love to lead and grow the people around you. You probably spent several years honing your skills as an engineer and are capable of producing high-quality outcomes.  You care deeply about others and have found satisfaction in empowering them to do their best work. As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for the engineering execution of product strategy and supporting the career development of engineers on the team. 

We are built on a modern AWS-based serverless technology stack. We strive to make technology choices that enable easy scalability of both our team and product and limit our exposure to operational burdens. We're not technology zealots, and our team members have a high degree of autonomy to choose the tools they feel best address the challenges at hand. We iterate quickly and deploy continuously while striving to keep the quality of our user experience high and our codebases tidy. And we have a lot of fun doing it together.

• Help your engineers grow their skills and experience.
• Work on a highly collaborative cross-functional team with product, design, and analytics to identify, design, and deliver new product experiences, as well as refine and optimize existing product experiences.
• Run the project management processes for your team, generating and implementing process improvements where warranted.
• Willing to support the engineers tactically, as needed, including being capable of developing efficient & effective outcomes using common AWS solutions, Ruby, React, DynamoDB and more. 
• Actively seek and hire distributed talent.
• Lead hiring processes for candidates and train the team to do technical interviews.
• Contribute to the sense of psychological safety on your team
• Hold regular 1:1's with all members of the team
• Give regular and clear feedback on the individual's performance
• Foster technical decision-making on the team but make final decisions when necessary
• Improve product quality, security, and performance

The annual salary range for this position is $120,000 to $180,000 USD.

Requirements

• You have led engineers as an Engineering Manager or Tech Lead on a small team (or have equivalent wisdom)
• Exquisite brokering skills: regularly achieve consensus amongst departments
• You have experience managing a distributed team
• Demonstrated progressive experience in a leadership role with current technical experience
• In-depth experience with some or all of the following technologies: AWS Serverless Services, Ruby, Python, TypeScript, Terraform, and GraphQL, in addition to any experience required by the position's specialty
• Experience successfully leveraging APIs with external clients and integrating with a variety of third-party vendors
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• You share our values and work in accordance with those values

Benefits

Comprehensive insurance:We provide comprehensive employee and family health insurance and ancillary benefits (life insurance, disability, and more). 

Learning & development stipend:We believe in continuous improvement (see above) - this includes you as a person and as a professional. That's why we provide an annual learning and development stipend that you can use however you see fit to further develop as a professional in your area of expertise or the insurance industry as a whole. Attend conferences, read books, take online learning courses, and more! 

Time off to recharge: We have a generous paid time off policy - take what you need when you need it. And when we say time-off - we really mean time off - don't check your emails, don't reply to Slack - relax and recharge. 

Remote work: Highwing is a fully-remote company.

Commercial insurance has trouble using its data, limiting its ability to compete effectively and grow profitably. Highwing helps insurance move faster and go further. Insurance is built from millions of individualized data points about customers, claims, costs, and more. Without these data points, calculating and transferring risk at scale wouldn't be possible. The problem is that data is highly fragmented. Rather than businesses being buoyed by this data, they are drowning in it because there are no easy, reliable connections between systems. Highwing is the first open data platform for Insurance brokers and carriers. Think of us as the digital nervous system for Insurance. We connect data both inside and outside our platform in order to bring efficiency to the procurement of insurance.

Our Crew. Our team is composed of experienced designers, engineers, and entrepreneurs. We believe software development is a team sport, and the best products are built by teams with diverse backgrounds who are empowered with a high degree of autonomy. We strive for rapid iteration and continuous improvement in both our products themselves and our approaches to building them. We work at a sustainable pace and know from experience that building a lasting product organization is a marathon, not a sprint.

Winning Together. We are playing a team sport. Building a successful enterprise is a team effort. We compete against the bounds of what's possible to deliver outstanding results for our clients. Teams thrive on unwavering support, respect, and openness ? but not unconditional acceptance. Talented jerks have no place on a great team.

Empowerment. This is not a little kid's soccer team. We believe empowered teams are critical in not only maintaining happy, productive people, but also in building impactful, innovative products. So we don't all swarm to the ball. We hire intelligent, diligent, passionate people who are capable of operating in large, sometimes ambiguous problem spaces with a great deal of freedom and decision-making authority. In exchange, we expect everyone to dig in, have an owner's mindset, learn deeply about the space, and take action to see complex initiatives to completion.

Improvement. We thrive on driving change. Our technology, our industry, and our clients are always in a constant state of flux. We must regularly evolve with them, or we will quickly fall behind. We approach every problem with a beginner's mind. We look to improve every part of what we do, every day ? from our product to our process and beyond. We always strive to give and receive feedback, even when it is difficult. And we allocate time specifically for learning and reflection so we can avoid our failures and replicate our successes.

Transparency. Having a stake in the business is about more than just equity. We believe the best way to give people a stake in the business is to give them full visibility into it. That's why we share everything transparently, from ongoing client meetings and project statuses to project financials. This allows everyone to see the work they're doing and understand how that work ladders up, connects, and impacts the business. This complete context enables better collaboration, more autonomy, and faster improvement.

Trustworthiness. We earn our partners' trust anew every day. Our partners trust us with some of their most valuable and sensitive assets. We treat these assets with the utmost respect and care, as if they were our own. We are experts in their world and use this knowledge to build relationships with a consultative approach. In each and every decision and action, we demonstrate why we deserve to have their trust.