Director of Engineering - Decision Platform
Director of Engineering - Decision Platform
Job Title
Director of Engineering - Decision Platform
About UnderwriteMe
UnderwriteMe is a UK based Insurtech creating disruptive SaaS solutions for the insurance industry. We are on a mission to make life insurance more widely accessible, providing technology to ensure people and their loved ones are protected when the inevitable happens.
We are wholly owned by Pacific Life, but operate as an autonomous business within the company. This gives us the best of both worlds - the freedom to act like a technology scale-up, with the stability of a large company meaning longer-term thinking and no last minute pivots to gain our next funding round.
UnderwriteMe has two main products we sell to customers:
* Decision Platform - a B2B enterprise platform that provides a best-in-market Underwriting Rules Engine used by over 30 insurers to power their underwriting decisions.
* Protection Platform - a B2B2C marketplace used by over 15,000 advisors to power quoting and purchase of protection products in the UK.
UnderwriteMe is part-way through a multi-year transformation to adopt a Product operating Model, modernising our architecture and moving our products to a SaaS model. We are looking for people to join us on this challenging and exciting journey.
The Role
We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead Engineering for our Decision Platform product. Internally this will be an AVP (Assistant Vice President) level.
What you will be doing
You will lead engineering for the four cross functional squads within the decision platform, directly managing the Tech Leads for each squad along with the Delivery Manager. You will represent engineering in the product triad, working in partnership with Product Managers and Design to build out the strategy and roadmap for Decision Platform.
You will be a member of the Decision Platform cross-functional leadership team along with counterparts from Product, Product Marketing, Sales and Customer Success. This team is responsible for leading the product, making decisions from our overall strategy as well as deciding where to make investments in the product.
You will also be a member of the Engineering leadership at UnderwriteMe, collaborating with other engineering leaders, working on improving our overall engineering function.
What type of person fits the role
You are technically great, with a strong understanding of engineering and engineering leadership. You can sit with engineers and debate technical concepts but are also capable of describing these concepts to non engineers clearly. You thrive on moving between different levels of detail depending on what the situation needs.
You care as much about the product we create and the value that creates for our customers as you do engineering excellence. You are a creative problem solver, looking for solutions to problems, understanding when to focus on dealing with the root causes and when a quick fix will suffice.
You are a curious coach, helping others to improve and wanting to understand why things work the way that they do, before you look to improve them. You are an entrepreneurial, strategic thinker who needs to be comfortable creating and challenging business and product strategy as well as leading in the creation of engineering strategy.
You have a growth mindset, respectfully challenging the status-quo and actively seeking out and giving feedback.
You thrive in a fast paced environment with large amounts of uncertainty.
Technical Requirements
You are an experienced engineering leader, acting as manager of managers across multiple cross functional product teams.
You have a strong grounding in core computer science principles and software engineering practices.
You’ve been working in teams following modern software delivery methodologies, such as agile, lean, and DevOps.
You’ve worked in cross functional teams, developing and executing technical and product strategy.
You’ve built modern cloud-native systems and SaaS products and understand the patterns used to build them.
You’ve worked with enterprise / B2B software and understand the challenges.
If you feel that you’ve met most of the requirements above, even if it isn’t everything, please do reach out and apply.
Working for UnderwriteMe
Joining UnderwriteMe means being part of a technology company that is committed to bringing a fresh and dynamic approach to insurance. You’d be working with a team of highly technical experts made up of people with backgrounds in software, fintech, and insurance.
Providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is very important to our culture. We have a wide range of employee benefits and we host regular social activities and wellbeing initiatives.
Benefits (Only for Permanent and Fixed Term Employees)
* Stakeholder Pension Scheme
* Life Assurance
* Subsidised Gym Membership
* Private Medical Insurance
* Season Ticket Loan
* Eye Care
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Group Income Protection
* Wellness Benefits
As part of our commitment to accessibility for all, UnderwriteMe will, upon the request of the applicant, provide accommodation during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities.
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