Staff Software Engineer
About The Position
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join and lead engineering at Root. As a Staff Engineer, you will be the primary technical leader for one or more teams within a product domain (e.g. Pricing, Underwriting, Claims, etc). You’ll work very closely with the software engineers on your team(s) to ship valuable software as well as the broad set of stakeholders to define the strategy and overall roadmap for the domain. Salary Range: $180,000 - $229,000 (Bonus and LTI Eligible) Root is a “work where it works best” company. This means we will support you working in whatever location that works best for you across the US.
Requirements
- 7+ years as a software engineer
- 3+ years leading software teams
- Expertise in Ruby on Rails
- Familiarity with React
- Proven leadership of projects involving multiple teams across functional domains
- Excellent communication skills both with engineering colleagues and senior business leaders
Responsibilities
- Co-lead your team with your Engineering Manager, helping to coach, model for and grow the other team members.
- Partner with Product, Data Science, Analytics, and experts in the Insurance group to set the strategy for the quarters to come
- Identify and socialize important technical initiatives that increase the effectiveness of our products, systems, and teams
- Contribute code strategically each development cycle to advance the impact of the team
- Lead by example in incident response ensuring we take action to continuously improve the resiliency of our systems
- Coordinate with Staff Engineers across the organization to establish and evangelize standards and best practices
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
