Director, Development

Vertafore•Denver, CO

2d•$155,000 - $200,000•Onsite

About The Position

As a key member of the product development leadership team, you will lead the development and technical strategy for our enterprise products. Partnering with product management and sales, you will interact with strategic customers designing innovative solutions that meet their business needs. You will lead multiple teams of amazing engineers, influence many others and provide leadership on design and architecture, strategy, and technology approaches. We expect you to be an accomplished engineer, have strong hands on technical experience and deep knowledge in one or more areas of distributed systems and enterprise web delivery platforms. Our culture fosters collaboration, innovation, integrity, mentorship, commitment to success and FUN and you will be adding your creativity and energy to it. Our managers are dedicated to growing their people and offering an opportunity that allows you to make impact in your career. If you love technology, leadership, being on the frontline of technical innovation, and are looking for a creative, fun and friendly workplace where you get to develop software that will transform the insurance industry, we would love to get in touch with you.

Requirements

Makes decisions across the product that help long-term maintainability, reuse, security and performance
Hunger to learn new concepts, new technologies, and be exposed to/adopt new ideas
Have kept their coding skills sharp and care deeply about writing solid code
Communicate effectively cross-functionally across various teams, organizations and internal and external stakeholders to drive engineering effort
Self-motivated and excellent problem-solvers
Driven to improve, personally and professionally
Mentor and inspire others to raise the bar for everyone around them
Collaborate with their peers, designing pragmatic solutions
Effectively lead and manage change within their area of responsibility as well as across the business
Operate best in a fast-paced, flexible work environment
Have a cooperative, collaborative, open and flexible mindset
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related technical field) or equivalent practical experience
Are very strong in both design, architecture and implementation at an enterprise level
Have experience with Scaled Agile software development
Have experience with Test Driven Development
Have an intense passion for innovating and designing technology solutions and mentoring their teams
Have professional experience as a development manager in an agile environment including working with enterprise customers on large scale projects
Have proven track record in leading architecture, design, development and operations of enterprise scale web delivery platforms, products and services in a high performance and high-availability SaaS environment
Can interact with customers to gather insights and translate technical concepts
Have experience with Java and common frameworks
Have experience with React.js or similar
Can work advanced database magic with relational and NoSQL databases
Are in-tune with high performance and high availability design/programming
Have experience in security best practices for software and data platforms
Design 'perfect-fit' solutions with engineering teams and business units to drive business growth and customer delight

Responsibilities

Effectively manage relationships (up, down, across) and able to roll-up their sleeves to get the job done
Influence across boundaries and at all levels of the organization
Think strategically to help drive features and services for short and long-term growth
Create a fun, fast paced, motivating and rewarding environment for their teams and the organization
Attract, build and retain a highly engaged and capable development teams that can deliver on our technology and business strategies
Think end-to-end by connecting all the pieces of the business (development, product management, QA, operations, etc.) to deliver the features to delight the customer while leveraging all available assets
Provide strong people management: attracting, retaining, inspiring and growing individuals; demonstrate a passion for people development and mobility
Creatively turn problems and solutions on their heads to come up with better designs, better technical solutions, better products
Closely follow industry trends and the open source community
Other duties as assigned