Engineering Manager

WHO WE ARE:

Zinnia is simplifying how people buy, sell, and administer insurance products. Combining intuitive enterprise technology solutions and data insights, the Policygenius marketplace, and market-leading products including smartoffice, annuitynet, lifespeed, winflex, TPP, vitalsales Suite, and Exchange Consulting, Zinnia is redesigning the insurance experience for shoppers, advisors, and insurers alike — and enabling more people to protect their financial futures along the way. Zinnia has over $173.7 billion in assets under administration across 100+ carrier clients, 2500 distributors and partners, and over 2 million policyholders.

WHO YOU ARE:

As an Engineering Manager, your primary role will be to build and lead a software engineering organization aligned with our corporate strategy and delivers on product commitments. We are seeking a team player with leadership experience, excellent interpersonal skills, and proven track record of successful delivery. The successful candidate will have a strong background in platform transformation, agile engineering processes, and software architecture/design. The Engineering Manager will drive financial outcomes by motivating and measuring associate performance, and ensure customer delight. You will have plenty of opportunities to innovate and collaborate while guiding your team's technical vision, partnering with Product Manager on customer discovery, helping the team improve through iteration and experimentation, all while opening new opportunities for your team to grow their careers.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Drive organizational strategy for technology domain.
• Lead, manage and grow teams of customer-focused software engineers.
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of technical staff.
• Maintain an organization structure that ensures successful delivery and corporate goals.
• Drive engineering excellence and constant improvement to increase teams' productivity.
• Lead efforts to design, develop, and deploy new and existing applications into cloud environments.
• Mentor individual contributors to the highest level of performance.
• Collaborate with the Engineering Leadership Team to ensure alignment to goals and build plans to achieve engineering objectives.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or related work experience in the field.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in enterprise software development.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in people and project management.
• Proven experience leading, managing, and growing multiple cross functional engineering teams.
• Experience leading the design, development, and delivery of enterprise-scaled software solutions.
• Sound knowledge of application development best practices, API best practices and standards.
• Sound knowledge of users’ and systems’ authentication and authorization.
• Experience with agile processes and methodologies.
• Experience delivery through fully automated CI/CD processes.
• Experience driving success through definition and adherence of corporate and engineering KPIs.
• Ability to develop and maintain engineering roadmaps and development plans.
• Ability to define and deliver status reporting at multiple levels.
• Experience supporting production systems and driving customer success.
• Effective communicator with both technical and non-technical audiences

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

At Zinnia, you collaborate with smart, creative professionals who are dedicated to delivering cutting-edge technologies, deeper data insights, and enhanced services to transform how insurance is done. Visit our website at www.zinnia.com for more information. Apply by completing the online application on the careers section of our website. We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability

 

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