Principal Engineer

Group 1001

1d•$200,000 - $230,000•Remote

About The Position

Group 1001 is a consumer-centric, technology-driven family of insurance companies on a mission to deliver outstanding value and operational performance by combining financial strength and stability with deep insurance expertise and a can-do culture. Group1001’s culture emphasizes the importance of collaboration, communication, core business focus, risk management, and striving for outcomes. This goal extends to how we hire and onboard our most valuable assets – our employees. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Engineering Manager to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading and coordinating multiple projects within and across cross-functional teams. Your primary focus will be on developing efficient processes, executing effective strategies, and ensuring the timely completion of projects. As an Engineering Manager, you will play a key role in product development. Collaborating closely with various teams, including product owners and scrum masters, to ensure projects are delivered on schedule and within budget, maintaining a high level of quality and adherence to organizational objectives. If you are a motivated and strategic professional with a passion for driving engineering excellence, we invite you to join our team and contribute to our continued success.

Requirements

Proven work experience as an Engineering Manager or similar role in an Agile environment
Analytical skills for evaluating information carefully and solving complex problems
Effective communication skills for overseeing engineers and working with other management personnel.
Effective communications to achieve team and business objectives
Detail-oriented for understanding complex systems and the ability to pay attention to details
Broad technical knowledge across relevant cross-functional tech domains – Front-end (Angular/Typescript), Backend (Kotlin), QA and QA automations
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Proven track record of delivering fast-paced complex features/products
Ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional, cross-organization teams to assemble project plans, secure commitments on deliverables, and lead the resolution of blocking issues
People management experience, managing engineers
Demonstrated passion for understanding ambiguous, complex problems and driving high-quality, innovative, and robust solutions.
Experience architecting and designing (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) new and existing systems
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent)

Nice To Haves

Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment
In-depth hands-on understanding of at least one relevant tech domain – Front-end (Angular/Typescript), Backend (Kotlin), QA and QA automations
Ability to analyze business requirements, write specifications, scope technical requirements, drive solution design across organizational boundaries, manage multiple software development efforts, establish rigorous testing standards and success metrics.
Experience with Deployment and Management software like Gitlab
Experience designing and building customer facing products
Experience building large scale distributed systems

Responsibilities

Provide managerial and technical oversight to one or more cross-functional engineering teams, including: Provide performance coaching and technical coordination
Requirement clarification
Identify development best practices
Validate work accuracy and adherence to compliance controls
Identify training needs and talent development opportunities
Inter and cross-teams dependency coordination
Collaborate with product owners and business stakeholders to gather requirements
Collaborate with scrum master to deliver projects on time and within budget
Participate in release planning meetings