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Steadily Insurance Company · 13 hours ago

Senior Software Engineering Manager (Austin, TX)

Austin, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$210K/yr - $300K/yr

Steadily is an innovative company seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead and scale their engineering organization. The role involves guiding experienced engineers, defining technical direction, and collaborating with product teams to deliver impactful customer experiences.

Commercial InsuranceInsuranceInsurTechProperty Insurance

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Partner with product to design self-serve customer experiences, defining the technical direction and leading your team to deliver measurable outcomes

Evaluate cutting-edge vendors for detailed property analytics, collaborating with data science to identify early indicators of property conditions and risks

Guide and coach experienced engineers, helping them identify their strengths and charting paths for continued growth and impact

Build and Grow Teams: Actively participate in the hiring, onboarding, and retention of exceptional engineering talent

Mentorship & Development: Coach, mentor, and foster the career growth of individual engineers through regular one-on-one meetings, constructive feedback, and performance development plans

Team Health & Culture: Cultivate a collaborative team environment where engineers feel empowered to take ownership and contribute their best work

Feedback Culture: Champion a culture of open and direct feedback, both positive and constructive, to drive continuous improvement and trust within the team

Architectural Guidance: Guide architectural decisions and drive system-level thinking to ensure the scalability, resilience, and maintainability of our software systems

Technical Vision: Define and champion the technical vision and strategy for your domain, ensuring alignment with overall company goals

Code Quality & Standards: Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in code quality, engineering best practices, and operational excellence

Technical Debt Management: Manage technical debt, balancing long-term technical vision with short-term deliverables

Roadmap & Strategy: Partner with product, engineering, and cross-functional teams to define roadmaps, set the direction, and drive customer and business impact for your team's products and features

Execution & Delivery: Oversee the prioritization, planning, execution, and delivery of engineering projects and features with an emphasis on small iterations

Operational Excellence: Ensure operational excellence, including support, on-call rotations, deployments, and incident management, embracing a 'you build it, you run it' philosophy

Data analysis: Use data to drive decision making for evaluating features and success, prioritization, and identifying future opportunities

Stakeholder Partnership: Collaborate extensively with Product Managers, Insurance Product, Sales, Marketing, Data Science, and other engineering teams to align priorities, ensure visibility of product and engineering initiatives, and incorporate the company’s priorities

Strategic Alignment: Work with senior leadership to understand the overall business direction, company metrics, provide technical insights, and contribute to strategic decision-making

Qualification

Architectural GuidanceTechnical VisionPython 3Team LeadershipAWSData AnalysisFeedback CultureOperational ExcellenceMentorshipCollaboration

Required

Experienced: This isn't your first rodeo leading high-performing engineering teams. While there's no specific minimum number of years, we expect you to confidently navigate complex technical landscapes, mentor senior engineers, and scale teams

Builder: You're passionate about shaping the product through engineering leadership. You'll drive architectural vision, empower your team to build innovative solutions, and foster an environment where engineers contribute thoughtfully to the user experience, rather than just executing pre-defined specs

Pragmatic: You prioritize impact and swift delivery. You'll balance team velocity with technical excellence, making thoughtful trade-offs to solve problems effectively. You know when to leverage off-the-shelf solutions and when a custom approach is essential, and you're ready to guide your team in iteratively building and deploying solutions that move the needle

Specific Languages: We don't really care if you've worked in our stack before as long as you're happy to learn it. If you're sharp enough to be on this team, you're sharp enough to learn any language or framework quickly