Engineering Manager, 3rd Party Integrations

Quandri; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Quandri is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the 3rd Party Integrations team. This role involves driving integration efforts, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance operational efficiency. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in engineering management and a passion for impactful software development.

Benefits

Employee stock options

Comprehensive health benefits

Four weeks of paid vacation

Work anywhere in the world for 60 days

Qualifications

• Over 4 years of engineering team management experience.
• More than 8 years of professional engineering experience.
• Proficient in software development best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the 3rd Party Integrations team to integrate Quandri with key insurance systems.
• Hire, coach, and mentor engineers to improve their skills.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to drive operational excellence.

Skills

Team Management

Software Development Best Practices

Technical Expertise

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related IT discipline

Job description

We’re Quandri, our mission is to unlock the world’s insurance data so brokerages and agencies can best serve their clients. Our Renewal Intelligence Platform is designed to help brokerages save time, increase profitability, and drive better outcomes for their staff, clients, and business.

We saw 3x ARR growth last year and have plans to continue to grow both revenue and our team this year. Named one of LinkedIn’s Top Canadian Startups in 2024, we have already made a big impact on the insurance industry. However, what matters most is making our customer’s lives better one renewal at a time. We want you to be a critical part of that journey! We’re a hybrid company, with ⅔ of our team in Vancouver and the rest distributed. For those in Vancouver, we have an office in Gastown that we expect people to be at three days a week. We understand both the advantages of some flexibility around personal lives, and the positive interpersonal effects of in-person collaboration.

Running a profitable personal lines book of business is harder than ever for insurance brokerages. Market conditions, rising costs, talent shortages, and staffing constraints are just some of the challenges that hinder profit margins, scalability, and exceptional client service. Trusted by 5 of Canada’s top 10 brokerages, Quandri is transforming the renewal process with AI-driven automation, enabling proactive workflows and delivering data-driven insights.

Today’s renewal process is often reactive, with brokers focusing on clients who request help rather than adopting a proactive, data-driven approach. Quandri is revolutionizing renewals by offering a platform that uses AI and automation to streamline operations. This allows brokerages to retain more business, enhance client and staff experiences, reduce E&O risk, and boost sales through upselling and cross-selling.

Looking to make an impact in your next role? How about transforming an entire industry? At Quandri, we’re unlocking new frontiers in insurance. To do that, we model our culture as a crew of interstellar astronauts. As Quandronauts, we’re committed to building a company that is diverse and multi-faceted. We’ve raised venture capital from top US and Canadian investors to help us achieve our mission, and are now scaling to achieve this.

About the Role:

As the engineering manager of the 3rd Party Integrations team, you will be responsible for leading a team that seamlessly integrates Quandri with key insurance systems, enabling our intelligence platforms and customer-facing products to take advantage of scalable shared capabilities. As a key member of our engineering leadership team, you will also contribute to building and driving a high-performing engineering organization that scales as headcount grows. Your expertise will be crucial in mentoring other developers, guiding them to grow their technical skills. You will also be responsible for hiring new talent and training them to ensure they meet our high standards. We expect effective communication and ownership, ensuring clarity and comprehensiveness. The ideal candidate is adaptable, curious, and driven, with a passion for diving deep into technical problems and a desire to make a significant impact.

Working with product managers, head of engineering, head of partnerships, customer success, and business stakeholders, you will drive impact through team health, operational excellence, and delivering against aligned objectives.

What you'll do:

• Build and drive day-to-day processes that lead to a highly efficient team of high performing engineers
• Build and deliver incrementally with a multi-quarter roadmap that drives operational excellence, scalability and reliability.
• Hire, coach, and mentor individuals, fostering a strong cross-functional organization. Your leadership will be key in developing the team's skills and capabilities.
• Provide technical expertise and leadership throughout product life cycles. Influence best practices for software engineers on your team and ensure the operational excellence of high-stake services. This includes regular reviews and updates to meet evolving requirements and security standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, including Product Managers, Data/AI engineers, Customer Success, Partnerships, other internal engineering teams, and company leaders.
• Contribute to the engineering leadership of the entire organization to continually align the org with Quandri’s guiding principles.
• Provide clarity in an ambiguous environment, both for your team and for your peers and leaders.

The right person for this role will have:

• Over 4 years of engineering team management experience.
• More than 8 years of professional engineering experience.
• At least 5 years of experience delivering mission critical software
• In-depth knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and live-site operations.
• Proven experience partnering with product management and internal technical teams.
• Proficient in software development best practices, with a history of deploying and operating software at scale.
• Experienced in designing and implementing databases, backends, and APIs, ensuring efficient data management and seamless integration of different system components.
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

Bonus points if you have:

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or related IT discipline; or equivalent experience.
• Experience in working with startups
• A candidate who exhibits exceptional proficiency in Python. The ideal applicant should have a strong track record of developing complex solutions using Python and demonstrate a deep understanding of its capabilities and best practices. An ability to write clean, efficient, and well-documented code in Python is highly desirable.
• Experience in communicating with senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Familiarity with frontend technologies and building enterprise-level customer-facing web applications.

Our guiding principles:

• Customers at the core. We put the customer at the centre of all we do. At a basic level, we believe business success comes down to talking to customers and building something they want. We don’t listen to customers and just take what they say blindly, but we think critically about it and build what they need. Customers are the core of everything we do, and our business exists to serve them. We prioritize their needs over all else within the company.
• Move with urgency. There are times when we need to move slowly and deliberately, but we default to acting fast and with urgency. We slow down when necessary, but this should be a deliberate choice. Businesses become more lethargic as they grow, this principle is designed to fight this fact.
• Be curious. We understand the world by being curious and asking why. We aren’t satisfied with surface level understanding, and seek a deeper understanding of why things are the way they are. Don’t take someone’s word for it or the answer “because that’s how we do it.” Understand why and dig deep.
• Excellence in execution. We know that what separates good from great is a high level of execution. We commit ourselves to excellence in everything that we do, from delivering an amazing product to writing a great email.
• Act like an owner. We’re all owners of the business and act like it. We follow through on commitments, own our results and think long-term.
• Fight for simplicity. The law of increasing functional information states that systems evolve to become more complex over time. At Quandri, we believe there is sophistication in simplicity; as such, we intentionally fight for streamlined solutions and are committed to the uncomplicated.

Compensation and Benefits:

• The range for base pay is $140,000 - $200,000 which is dependent on level of experience, performance and choice of stock option compensation
• Employee stock options based on experience level
• Comprehensive health benefits, including Lifestyle Spending Account
• Four weeks of paid vacation per year
• Work anywhere in the world for 60 days of the year

Quandri is dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. As an equal opportunity employer, Quandri adheres to Canadian labour laws and does not engage in discrimination based on race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other status protected under Canadian law.

Don’t let imposter syndrome stop you from applying. Great people sometimes don’t have the “right” experience. If you think that you’ll be amazing at this role then we encourage you to apply.