Mercury Insurance · 7 hours ago
Director I Software Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$124K/yr - $323K/yr
10+ years expMercury Insurance is a recognized leader in the insurance industry, known for its supportive culture and commitment to innovation. The Director I Software Engineering will build and manage high-performing software engineering teams, driving budgeting, planning, and collaboration to deliver high-quality applications while optimizing systems and processes.
Insurance
Responsibilities
Build and manage highly motivated, high-performing software engineering team(s) by hiring strong talent, mentoring, and motivating the staff to support many related business/technology areas, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and excellence. Drive budgeting and planning for their area of responsibility
Collaborate with product managers to estimate effort, prioritize the roadmap, plan, and deliver prioritized roadmap items to achieve desired outcomes
Review and translate product requirements into robust designs to ensure high-quality applications that are modular, configurable, maximize reuse, are fast, effective, user-friendly, secure, compliant, scalable, maintainable, and deliver desired outcomes
Lead the team(s) hands-on to deliver new or improved features, addressing any impediments in implementing a high-quality solution that delivers desired outcomes
Collaborate with other teams and stakeholders as necessary to ensure an overall successful delivery of the intended functionality
Review product requirements, design, and code to ensure the best quality and adherence to best practices. Ensure that all application system(s) in their area of responsibility are secure, compliant, performing per expectations, and up to date on the tech stack
Monitor and report on key performance metrics, making data-driven decisions to optimize engineering operations. Identify opportunities for system and process improvements
Drive the implementation of new features, large refactors/migrations, as well as process changes. Leverage CI/CD and process optimization to improve time to market
Stay up to date with the latest industry trends and technologies and drive the adoption of best practices within the team
Assist in developing and driving the technical vision, strategy, and innovation for Mercury’s application systems
Assist in communicating with executive leadership to represent the engineering organization and its vision
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or other related fields Or equivalent combination of education and experience
10+ years of Software engineering experience with 7+ year's experience, leading and managing staff and 2+ year's experience managing large teams
Proficient in building and managing multiple small/medium-sized, highly motivated, high-performing software engineering team(s) by hiring strong talent, mentoring, and motivating staff
Proficient in project management tasks like estimating, planning, executing, tracking, and reporting progress
Proficient in leading multiple engineering teams to deliver high-quality product solutions per roadmap on different technology stacks like mobile, web, backend, data, etc
Experienced in designing and implementing high-quality, complex, high-volume distributed application systems that are modular, configurable, maximize reuse, are fast, effective, user-friendly, secure, compliant, scalable, and maintainable
Proficient in leveraging technologies like APIs, messaging, data streaming, workflow, integration frameworks, microservices, containers, and cloud computing to implement best-in-class solutions. Maximizing use of open-source libraries where possible
Experienced in leveraging DevSecOps to improve engineering efficiency
Proficient in leveraging analytics data and experimentation to design and implement or improve systems to be fast, scalable, and effective
Experienced in driving transformative initiatives like digital transformation, omni-channel system implementation, legacy system migration, cloud transformation, system optimization & modernization, product & services development, AI/ML adoption
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Excellent ability to collaborate and influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders across multiple areas to address impediments and deliver desired results
Proficient in championing operational excellence and best practices with a focus on quality, performance, scalability, maintainability, and observability
Experienced in driving technical strategy, vision, and innovation for multiple functional/technology areas
Preferred
Master's Degree in Computer Science
Experience in supporting SaaS systems like Ultipro, Coupa, Concur, ServiceNow, etc
Experience guiding buy-versus-build decisions to determine whether to purchase, customize, or internally develop software system
Experience partnering across enterprise business units to provide best in class tooling, capabilities, and technologies (example: finance, accounting, human capital, etc.)
Experience in building software for P&C Insurance Business
Benefits
Competitive compensation
Flexibility to work from anywhere in the United States for most positions
Paid time off (vacation time, sick time, 9 paid Company holidays, volunteer hours)
Incentive bonus programs (potential for holiday bonus, referral bonus, and performance-based bonus)
Medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance
401 (k) retirement savings plan with company match
Engaging work environment
Promotional opportunities
Education assistance
Professional and personal development opportunities
Company recognition program
Health and wellbeing resources, including free mental wellbeing therapy/coaching sessions, child and eldercare resources, and more
Company
Mercury Insurance
Mercury Insurance has offered quality insurance for personal auto insurance to homeowners insurance to mechanical breakdown protection.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
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Leadership Team
T
Ted Stalick
SVP & CFO
V
Victor Joseph
President & Chief Operating Officer
Recent News
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