Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Root Inc. is an insurance technology company focused on creating customer-friendly auto insurance products through world-class technology. The Engineering Manager II will lead the Telematics Technology domain, overseeing teams responsible for production systems that transform driving data into risk signals. The role includes setting domain strategy, guiding technical execution, developing people, and ensuring reliable delivery across telematics platform and customer experience initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Data Science, Pricing, Underwriting, and other stakeholders to define the long-term vision and quarterly roadmaps for our Telematics Platform and Telematics Experience focus areas. Translate product and data strategy into actionable quarterly roadmaps, prioritizing technical investments to balance feature delivery with platform stability
- Manage and mentor a high-performing engineering organization, fostering an environment of mutual trust, open communication, high ownership, accountability, and continuous growth. Use a situational leadership approach—coaching, directive feedback, and delegation—to develop engineers at all levels. Identify talent gaps and drive recruitment, onboarding, and organizational design plans to ensure the domain scales with business demand
- Guide the architectural direction for the telematics pipeline, ensuring our systems are built for high observability, reliability, and scale. Oversee the delivery of complex technical initiatives, ensuring we act consistently on postmortem learnings to improve system resilience. Continuously evaluate development processes, driving efficiency gains that accelerate time-to-market for new telematics-powered features, and work closely with the broader Engineering Manager community to champion engineering excellence across the company
Skills
- 6+ years in software engineering with 3+ years in technical leadership or engineering management, specifically leading teams through periods of scale or high complexity
- Demonstrated ability to bridge the gap between technical complexity and business strategy; you can translate product, data, and ML roadmap needs into actionable engineering plans for senior leaders and cross-functional partners
- Strong technical judgment in building and scaling distributed data pipelines; you can guide the team through trade-offs in reliability, observability, and latency, ensuring we build sustainable, high-quality systems
- Strong command of modern cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Terraform, serverless architecture)
- A track record of developing engineers at varying seniority levels, with a focus on building inclusive, high-ownership cultures built on mutual trust and open communication
- Experience implementing development practices that balance rapid experimentation with rigorous production stability. You are comfortable championing a 'build-measure-learn' culture, managing technical debt alongside new feature delivery, and facilitating effective ceremonies (e.g., retrospectives, sprint planning) to drive continuous team improvement
- A proactive approach to driving the adoption and integration of AI tools and technologies within the team's day-to-day workflows to enhance developer productivity and code quality
- Deep experience in productionalizing ML models at scale
- Prior background in telematics, sensor data pipelines, or insurance/financial services
- Advanced experience with logging, monitoring, and tracing tooling (e.g., Datadog) to drive system performance
Benefits
- Eligible for competitive bonus
- Equity offering
- Root is a “work where it works best” company. This means we will support you working in whatever location that works best for you across the US.
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