Senior Manager, Software Engineering
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Senior engineering manager leading high-performing software teams at Mercury Insurance. Driving scalable, secure applications, roadmap delivery, and technical strategy for insurance products.
Responsibilities:
- Build and manage highly motivated, high-performing software engineering teams
- Hire, mentor, and motivate staff
- Drive budgeting and planning for the area of responsibility
- Collaborate with product managers to estimate effort, prioritize the roadmap, plan, and deliver roadmap items
- Translate product requirements into robust, modular, configurable, reusable, fast, user-friendly, secure, compliant, scalable, and maintainable designs
- Lead teams hands-on to deliver new or improved features and address delivery impediments
- Collaborate with teams and stakeholders to ensure successful delivery
- Review product requirements, designs, and code for quality and adherence to best practices
- Ensure application systems are secure, compliant, performant, and up to date
- Identify system and process improvement opportunities
- Drive new features, large refactors or migrations, and process changes
- Leverage CI/CD and process optimization to improve time to market
- Stay current with industry trends and drive adoption of best practices
- Assist in developing Mercury’s technical vision, strategy, and innovation for application systems
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and excellence
Requirements:
- 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
- Experience leading customer-facing digital experiences across multiple surfaces or channels
- Strong full-stack product engineering background
- Experience leveraging existing backend APIs and defining frontend-to-platform contracts
- Experience building reusable frameworks or components
- Insurance domain experience is a plus
- Proven ability to drive engineering best practices, operational excellence, and organizational discipline across teams
- Proficient in building and managing large, high-performing software engineering teams
- Experienced in hiring and developing next-level managers and leaders
- Proficient in project management, including estimating, planning, executing, tracking, and reporting progress
- Proficient in leading multiple engineering teams across mobile, web, backend, data, and other technology stacks
- Experienced in designing and implementing distributed application systems
- Proficient with APIs, messaging, data streaming, workflow, integration frameworks, microservices, containers, and cloud computing
- Experience maximizing use of open-source libraries
- Experienced in leveraging DevSecOps
- Experienced in leveraging analytics data and experimentation
- Experience leading transformative initiatives such as digital transformation, omni-channel implementation, legacy migration, cloud transformation, modernization, product development, and AI/ML adoption
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong ability to collaborate with and influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders
- Experienced in operational excellence, quality, performance, scalability, maintainability, and observability
- Experienced in driving technical strategy, vision, and innovation
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science preferred
- Experience building software for P&C Insurance Business preferred
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
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