Engineering Manager, Partnerships at Sure | Powderkeg

Location: Remote

Employment Type: Full-Time

Team: Engineering

As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for the implementation, design, development, and technical quality of the product. Within this position, you will be working with cross-functional teams to deliver high- quality code and best practices. Along with that, you will mentor and support your distributed team of frontend and backend engineers. You are expected to have a full understanding of building systems with high availability that grow at scale for our SaaS platform.

Operating within the Partnerships team, you will work on high-impact initiatives with world-renowned SaaS customers like Mastercard, Farmers Insurance, and Toyota. You will also act as the Technical Subject Matter Expert role on client calls, helping to guide technical conversations with external stakeholders and ensuring internal alignment on project implementation and release strategies.

Our philosophy is that you would be teaching us as much as you’d learn from us. By learning and inspiring others, you’ll help cultivate an environment that makes us better at what we do each day.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Act as a hands on lead to support a distributed team of frontend and backend engineers
  • Contribute to all aspects of the software process: including architecture, specification reviews, automated testing, implementation, code reviews, debugging, and documentation
  • Collaborate with cross-departmental team leads and stakeholders in order to drive the engineering roadmap and priorities for your team
  • Communicate with dependencies and stake holders across the company
  • Mentor and coach engineers to facilitate growth and career advancement
  • Guide technical discussions with external stakeholders, third-party vendors, and partners
  • Lead technical discussions within the engineering team to ensure a high level of excellence, performance, and stability within our software
  • Encourage strong coding best practices, guidelines, and standards throughout the team
  • Assist with hiring and interviewing, including reviewing code challenges

What we’re looking for:

  • 1+ years of hands on engineering management experience, ideally involving overseeing direct reports
  • 3+ years experience with any of the following:
  • Python, Ruby, Java or Go (Python and Django experience is a huge plus)
  • JavaScript (React, TypeScript, Jest, Cypress experience is a huge plus)
  • A deep understanding of and experience in using APIs and REST
  • Experience shipping successful products and features
  • Experience with high level systems architecture and design
  • A player-coach mentality of leading by example

Sure offers employees benefits including: unlimited PTO, a variety of medical, dental and vision insurance plans covered at 80%, 401k plan, equity, employee assistance program, generous parental leave, home office stipend, an annual company retreat, and so much more!

About Sure.

Sure, an insurance technology company, powers digital insurance programs for the world’s most recognized brands and carriers. Its enterprise SaaS Platform and APIs accelerate digital transformation and omnichannel distribution without the need for additional IT resources. Sure streamlines all aspects of digital insurance sales and service with features designed for each phase of the insurance lifecycle. Founded in 2014, the company is remote first and has customers around the globe.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

For more information, visit https://www.sureapp.com/. Follow @SureHQ on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Employment at Sure is contingent upon a satisfactory verification of a general and criminal background check. Upon an offer of employment, all prospective employees may be required to complete an employment application. Any background verifications will be obtained with written consent from the individual.

Job Summary
  • Job Title
    Engineering Manager, Partnerships
  • Company
    Sure
  • Location
    New York, NY
  • Employment Type
    Full time
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