Engineering Manager

Group 1001; Zionsville (IN); On-site; USD 200,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401K with match

Life & Disability Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Group 1001, a technology-driven family of insurance companies, is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead cross-functional teams, coordinate multiple projects, and drive engineering excellence. You will partner with product owners and scrum masters to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery while maintaining high quality.

Ideal candidates bring proven leadership in Agile environments, strong communication, and hands-on experience across front-end (Angular/Typescript) and back-end (Kotlin), plus QA

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Proven track record leading engineering teams in Agile environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Provide managerial and technical oversight across multiple engineering teams.
• Coordinate projects with product owners and scrum masters to meet timelines and budgets.
• Establish development best practices and ensure quality and compliance.
• Identify training needs and develop talent across teams.

Skills

Agile leadership

Cross-functional coordination

Front-end (Angular/Typescript)

Backend (Kotlin)

QA and QA automation

People management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field

Tools

Gitlab

Job description

Group 1001 is a consumer-centric, technology-driven family of insurance companies on a mission to deliver outstanding value and operational performance by combining financial strength and stability with deep insurance expertise and a can-do culture. Group1001's culture emphasizes the importance of collaboration, communication, core business focus, risk management, and striving for outcomes. This goal extends to how we hire and onboard our most valuable assets - our employees.

Why This Role Matters:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Engineering Manager to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading and coordinating multiple projects within and across cross-functional teams. Your primary focus will be on developing efficient processes, executing effective strategies, and ensuring the timely completion of projects. As an Engineering Manager, you will play a key role in product development. Collaborating closely with various teams, including product owners and scrum masters, to ensure projects are delivered on schedule and within budget, maintaining a high level of quality and adherence to organizational objectives.

If you are a motivated and strategic professional with a passion for driving engineering excellence, we invite you to join our team and contribute to our continued success.

How You'll Contribute:

Provide managerial and technical oversight to one or more cross-functional engineering teams, including:

• Provide performance coaching and technical coordination
• Requirement clarification
• Identify development best practices
• Validate work accuracy and adherence to compliance controls
• Identify training needs and talent development opportunities
• Inter and cross-teams dependency coordination
• Collaborate with product owners and business stakeholders to gather requirements
• Collaborate with scrum master to deliver projects on time and within budget
• Participate in release planning meetings

What We're Looking For:

• Proven work experience as an Engineering Manager or similar role in an Agile environment
• Analytical skills for evaluating information carefully and solving complex problems
• Effective communication skills for overseeing engineers and working with other management personnel. Effective communications to achieve team and business objectives
• Detail-oriented for understanding complex systems and the ability to pay attention to details
• Broad technical knowledge across relevant cross-functional tech domains - Front-end (Angular/Typescript), Backend (Kotlin), QA and QA automations

Basic Qualifications:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proven track record of delivering fast-paced complex features/products
• Ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional, cross-organization teams to assemble project plans, secure commitments on deliverables, and lead the resolution of blocking issues
• People management experience, managing engineers
• Demonstrated passion for understanding ambiguous, complex problems and driving high-quality, innovative, and robust solutions.
• Experience architecting and designing (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) new and existing systems
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment
• In-depth hands-on understanding of at least one relevant tech domain - Front-end (Angular/Typescript), Backend (Kotlin), QA and QA automations
• Ability to analyze business requirements, write specifications, scope technical requirements, drive solution design across organizational boundaries, manage multiple software development efforts, establish rigorous testing standards and success metrics.
• Experience with Deployment and Management software like Gitlab
• Experience designing and building customer facing products
• Experience building large scale distributed systems

Compensation:

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $200,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $230,000/year plus bonus in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits Highlights:

• Employees who meet benefit eligibility guidelines and work 30 hours or more weekly, have the ability to enroll in Group 1001's benefits package.
• Employees (and their families) are eligible to participate in the Company's comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plan options.
• Employees are also eligible for Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance, Short and Long-Term Disability.
• All employees (regardless of hours worked) have immediate access to the Company's Employee Assistance Program and wellness programs-no enrollment is required.
• Employees may also participate in the Company's 401K plan, with matching contributions by the Company.

Group 1001, and its affiliated companies, is strongly committed to providing a supportive work environment where employee differences are valued. Diversity is an essential ingredient in making Group 1001 a welcoming place to work and is fundamental in building a high-performance team. Diversity embodies all the differences that make us unique individuals. All employees share the responsibility for maintaining a workplace culture of dignity, respect, understanding and appreciation of individual and group differences.