Engineering Director
The world has changed. Why hasn’t insurance?
Kin’s mission is to reimagine home insurance For Every New Normal. While other insurers struggle to handle a fast-changing world, Kin is built for the future and is prepared to meet its challenges head on while helping our customers do the same.
Kin is proud to be one of BuiltIn Chicago’s 2021 and 2022 Best Mid Sized Companies to work for, and Forbes 2021 Best Startup Employers in North America. Simply put, our people are what make us great, and we need forward-thinking, inspired game-changers like you to join us in our mission.
So, what’s the role?
We welcome people from all backgrounds who are driven by a passion of creating great engineering teams and awesome products that users love. As an Engineering Director at Kin, you will lead multiple teams as we build and rethink software and technology for the home insurance industry. As a leader, we’ll rely on you to build and deliver high performing technical teams through hiring, coaching, and mentoring. We value collaboration, and with our distributed ecosystem, your communication skills will be put to good use.
A day in the life could include:
- Lead a distributed engineering team(s) and serve as the head of engineering for your product.
- Hire, nurture and mentor top engineering talent. Create a team to be proud of!
- Understand the business working closely with our insurance team, product management, customer service and support to help inform engineering roadmaps, priorities and be responsive to customer needs.
- Enable your team to innovate and deliver roadmap features with agility and high quality
- Consistently, rapidly, and effectively take ideas from concept to production and drive delivery excellence.
- Be a steward of the platform. Own code quality, availability, scalability, resiliency, performance, observability and maintainability as part of ongoing development.
- Support operations and SRE teams in backstopping production issues and incidents. As a steward of the platform, push for root cause analysis and resolutions.
- Work closely with senior engineers to make platform improvements that give us greater flexibility, business agility and platform reliability.
I’ve got the skills… but do I have the necessary ones?
- Has grown up with an engineering background. Has been a developer, architect and worked hands on in their career.
- Deep understanding of cultivating teams, motivating people and creating high performance cultures.
- Knowledge of the Insurance Industry & Products is a big plus.
- Overall 12+ years of experience in software development & strong computer science fundamentals with 5+ years managing a team of 25+ software engineers
- Strong design and architecture exposure in building large scale enterprise SaaS solutions using cloud technologies.
- Experience in designing, implementing and maintaining high performance, high availability, large-scale web/mobile based software applications using modern programming languages
- Knowledge of popular JS frameworks and libraries (React, Angular, Vue, etc.) is nice to have.
- Experience with Relational and No-SQL databases, message queues/brokers
- Exposure to BI & big data technologies including Looker, BigTable.
- Strong communication skills and ability to grasp and convey complex product requirements or technical concepts
- Ability to work in a fast paced, iterative development environment
- Excellent command of software development life cycle activities including analysis, design, development, unit and system testing, production deployment and post-production support
- Strong time management skills and ability to work on concurrent streams with different priorities
- Location in Central or Eastern time zones (CST & EST) strongly preferred
Oh, and don’t worry, we’ve got you covered!
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
- Flexible PTO policy
- Very generous equity options and 401K
- Parental Leave
- Continuing education and professional development
- Disability and Life Insurance
- The excitement of joining a high-growth Insurtech company and seeing your work make an impact
In an industry that hasn't budged in more than 100 years, our technology transforms the user experience, cuts inefficiencies that waste billions of consumer dollars, and customizes coverage homeowners want. We believe insurance was always meant to be a digital product – we’re making that a reality.
Our approach to the industry makes us unique, and the people at Kin help us excel. We’re a team of problem solvers, collaborators, builders, and dreamers who are passionate about creating positive change in the lives of our customers and in our industry. Kin is more than just our name – it’s how we treat each other. That’s one of the many reasons we’ve been recognized as a great place to work by Built In, Forbes, and Fast Company.
EEOC Statement
Kin is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We don't just accept difference – we honor it, nurture it, and celebrate it. We don’t discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Kin encourages applications from all backgrounds, communities and industries, and are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities.
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