The engineering team at Root strives to be one of the most transformative engineering teams ever. We’re changing the way that car insurance works. We’re competing with companies that have been around for a century and comprise a $200B industry—and we’re doing it with an astonishingly small team. We're building an Engineering Team in Chicago that will be working very closely with our telematics data. This team will play a major part in where we're headed, so we're searching for experienced Software Engineers who are looking to have a significant impact by building and leading a team from scratch.

Our tech stack includes:

Ruby / Rails backend, RSpec for testing

Javascript / React Native frontend, Mocha for testing

Small amounts of native iOS and Android

Deployment to AWS ECS using containers

Buildkite for CI

We recently raised the largest VC round ever for an Ohio technology company:

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/ohio-unicorn-root-insurance-rolls-on-with-350m-in-new-cash/1021/

Our team excels at delivering software to build Root’s products: presently, mobile apps and a backend platform for personal auto insurance. We’ve shaped our team and our way of working around this. Our engineering team would not be the most transformative team at building a mobile operating system. We’d be quite bad at that. We’re exceptionally good at building the type of software that is necessary to invoke change in the insurance industry.

We divide the areas of responsibility for engineers into three major areas:

Technical: The skills and knowledge that make up an engineer’s basic problem-solving toolbox.

Planning and Execution: The ability to plan and execute assigned work beyond basic technical solutions.

Working with Others: The ability to work effectively with other engineers and people in other functions.

Scope of Impact: Individual/Team

What we look for in mid-level software engineers:

Technical Skills

• Writes clean, functional, well-tested code.
• Experienced with several programming paradigms.
• Deep understanding of client-server architecture and web technologies.
• Deep understanding of version control tools.
• Solid knowledge of databases and SQL.
• Basic understanding of infrastructure and devops.

Planning and Execution

• Completes large pre-planned tasks in an efficient manner
• Able to take on medium unplanned feature work and bugfixes
• Thinks critically about assigned work to guarantee business functionality. Understands and takes business goals into account when making technical decisions.

Working with Others

• Works with tech lead and teammates to answer questions about their work
• Understands and implements feedback from peers into own work
• Provides effective and accurate technical feedback in code reviews
• Mentors and coaches more junior engineers
• Able to work across teams to tackle complex issues