Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Group 1001 is a consumer-centric, technology-driven family of insurance companies. They are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Engineering Manager to lead and coordinate multiple projects within cross-functional teams, focusing on efficient processes and timely project completion.
Responsibilities
- Provide managerial and technical oversight to one or more cross-functional engineering teams, including:
- Provide performance coaching and technical coordination
- Requirement clarification
- Identify development best practices
- Validate work accuracy and adherence to compliance controls
- Identify training needs and talent development opportunities
- Inter and cross-teams dependency coordination
- Collaborate with product owners and business stakeholders to gather requirements
- Collaborate with scrum master to deliver projects on time and within budget
- Participate in release planning meetings
Skills
- Proven work experience as an Engineering Manager or similar role in an Agile environment
- Analytical skills for evaluating information carefully and solving complex problems
- Effective communication skills for overseeing engineers and working with other management personnel. Effective communications to achieve team and business objectives
- Detail-oriented for understanding complex systems and the ability to pay attention to details
- Broad technical knowledge across relevant cross-functional tech domains – Front-end (Angular/Typescript), Backend (Kotlin), QA and QA automations
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Proven track record of delivering fast-paced complex features/products
- Ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional, cross-organization teams to assemble project plans, secure commitments on deliverables, and lead the resolution of blocking issues
- People management experience, managing engineers
- Demonstrated passion for understanding ambiguous, complex problems and driving high-quality, innovative, and robust solutions
- Experience architecting and designing (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) new and existing systems
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent)
- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment
- In-depth hands-on understanding of at least one relevant tech domain – Front-end (Angular/Typescript), Backend (Kotlin), QA and QA automations
- Ability to analyze business requirements, write specifications, scope technical requirements, drive solution design across organizational boundaries, manage multiple software development efforts, establish rigorous testing standards and success metrics
- Experience with Deployment and Management software like Gitlab
- Experience designing and building customer facing products
- Experience building large scale distributed systems
Benefits
- Ability to enroll in Group 1001’s benefits package (benefit eligibility guidelines; work 30 hours or more weekly)
- Eligible to participate in the Company’s comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plan options (Employees and their families)
- Eligible for Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance
- Eligible for Short and Long-Term Disability
- Immediate access to the Company’s Employee Assistance Program (no enrollment is required)
- Immediate access to wellness programs (no enrollment is required)
- May also participate in the Company’s 401K plan, with matching contributions by the Company
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