Mercury Insurance · 5 hours ago
Senior Manager Software Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$128K/yr - $252K/yr
10+ years expMercury Insurance is a recognized leader in the insurance industry, and they are seeking a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead the development of AI/ML solutions. This role involves building and managing high-performing teams, driving project planning, and ensuring the delivery of secure and compliant applications while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
Insurance
Responsibilities
Build and manage highly motivated, high-performing software engineering team(s) by hiring strong talent, mentoring, and motivating the staff to support a few 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 for their areas of responsibility
Review and translate product requirements for their areas of responsibility into robust designs to ensure high-quality applications that are modular, configurable, maximize reuse, are fast, effective, user-friendly, secure, compliant, scalable, and maintainable
Lead the team(s) hands-on to deliver new or improved features, addressing any impediments in delivering a high-quality solution for their areas of responsibility
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) for their areas of responsibility are secure, compliant, performing per expectations, and up to date on the tech stack. 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 the technical vision, strategy, and innovation for Mercury’s application systems
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 5+ years leading and managing staff
Proficient in building and managing a large, highly motivated, high-performing software engineering team(s) by hiring strong talent, mentoring, and motivating staff
Experienced in hiring and developing strong next-level managers and leaders
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 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
Experienced in leveraging analytics data and experimentation to design and implement or improve systems to be fast, scalable, and effective
Experienced in leading parts of 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
Strong ability to collaborate and influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders to address impediments and deliver desired results
Experienced in championing operational excellence and best practices with a focus on quality, performance, scalability, maintainability, and observability
Experienced in helping to drive technical strategy, vision, and innovation
Preferred
M.S./PHD Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematical or related
5+ years of experience in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, LLMs, and Generative AI
5+ years experience in building large scale enterprise application and platform
1+ experience on insurTech
3+ years of experience in Machine Learning algorithms, Deep Learning, NLP, LLMs, and Generative AI, Agentic AI
Strong background in applied research and engineering, with a demonstrated ability to lead projects from R&D to deployment
Knowledge in large-scale system deployment of AI models and Agentic AI applications
Expertise in building and optimizing POCs, with hands-on experience in training and Agentic AI Best Practices and evaluation
Advanced proficiency in Java, Python, ML frameworks and ml libraries
Great communication and leadership skills, with the ability to present complex ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences
Experience on public cloud such as aws, sagemaker, MLflow, etc
Proven experience in insurTech or related industries
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
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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
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