Senior Software Engineering Manager

Steadily Insurance Company; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 189,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in the company

3 weeks PTO plus six federal holidays

Comprehensive health insurance

401K

Free snacks & regular team lunches

Job summary

A leading insurance technology company is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing engineering team in Austin. The role involves driving technical excellence, mentorship, and collaboration across functions while managing innovative projects in a fast-paced environment. With competitive compensation and a unique company culture, this is an exciting opportunity for an experienced leader to make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• Experienced in leading high-performing engineering teams.
• Ability to mentor and guide senior engineers.
• Strong background in architectural decisions and system-level thinking.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical excellence and nurture engineering team growth.
• Guiding architectural decisions and system-level thinking.
• Oversee project delivery and operational excellence.

Skills

Leadership

Mentorship

Technical Excellence

Collaboration

Tools

Python

Kotlin

Typescript

React

Kafka

AWS

Job description

Steadily is an insurance technology company that specializes in rental property insurance for landlords. We're four years old, just over 160 people, manage $20B in risk, and are intent on becoming the world's best and largest insurer of rental properties.

We exist to deliver fast, affordable insurance and to pay claims quickly and fairly. To do that, we hire the best engineers, actuaries, sales, and service people in the country to build the experience that we'd want if we were the client.

We're hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and scale our engineering organization. In this pivotal role, you'll drive technical excellence, nurture team growth, and ensure efficient product delivery. You'll report directly to our CTO and work closely with existing engineering leadership to shape the future of our department.

What You'll Do

Our engineering team leans senior, with most members having over 10 years of experience at high-growth companies in Austin. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you could:

Partner with product to design self-serve customer experiences, defining the technical direction and leading your team to deliver measurable outcomes.

Evaluate cutting-edge vendors for detailed property analytics, collaborating with data science to identify early indicators of property conditions and risks.

Guide and coach experienced engineers, helping them identify their strengths and charting paths for continued growth and impact.

What You'll Bring

Experienced: This isn't your first rodeo leading high-performing engineering teams. While there's no specific minimum number of years, we expect you to confidently navigate complex technical landscapes, mentor senior engineers, and scale teams.

Builder: You're passionate about shaping the product through engineering leadership. You'll drive architectural vision, empower your team to build innovative solutions, and foster an environment where engineers contribute thoughtfully to the user experience, rather than just executing pre-defined specs.

Pragmatic: You prioritize impact and swift delivery. You'll balance team velocity with technical excellence, making thoughtful trade-offs to solve problems effectively. You know when to leverage off-the-shelf solutions and when a custom approach is essential, and you're ready to guide your team in iteratively building and deploying solutions that move the needle.

Specific Languages: We don't really care if you've worked in our stack before as long as you're happy to learn it. If you're sharp enough to be on this team, you're sharp enough to learn any language or framework quickly.

How You'll Contribute

Build and Grow Teams: Actively participate in the hiring, onboarding, and retention of exceptional engineering talent.

Mentorship & Development: Coach, mentor, and foster the career growth of individual engineers through regular one-on-one meetings, constructive feedback, and performance development plans.

Team Health & Culture: Cultivate a collaborative team environment where engineers feel empowered to take ownership and contribute their best work.

Feedback Culture: Champion a culture of open and direct feedback, both positive and constructive, to drive continuous improvement and trust within the team.

Technical Leadership & Excellence

Architectural Guidance: Guide architectural decisions and drive system-level thinking to ensure the scalability, resilience, and maintainability of our software systems.

Technical Vision: Define and champion the technical vision and strategy for your domain, ensuring alignment with overall company goals.

Code Quality & Standards: Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in code quality, engineering best practices, and operational excellence.

Technical Debt Management: Manage technical debt, balancing long-term technical vision with short-term deliverables.

Project & Delivery Oversight

Roadmap & Strategy: Partner with product, engineering, and coss-functional teams to define roadmaps, set the direction, and drive customer and business impact for your team's products and features.

Execution & Delivery: Oversee the prioritization, planning, execution, and delivery of engineering projects and features with an emphasis on small iterations.

Operational Excellence: Ensure operational excellence, including support, on-call rotations, deployments, and incident management, embracing a "you build it, you run it" philosophy.

Data analysis: Use data to drive decision making for evaluating features and success, prioritization, and identifying future opportunities.

Cross-functional Collaboration

Stakeholder Partnership: Collaborate extensively with Product Managers, Insurance Product, Sales, Marketing, Data Science, and other engineering teams to align priorities, ensure visibility of product and engineering initiatives, and incorporate the company’s priorities.

Strategic Alignment: Work with senior leadership to understand the overall business direction, company metrics, provide technical insights, and contribute to strategic decision-making.

Our Technical Stack and Tools:

Python 3 / Kotlin

Typescript

React (Next.js)

Kafka (we build on an event driven architecture)

AWS (EKS)

Github Actions with a full CI/CD Pipeline

Compensation and Benefits:

Salary of $210,000+ annually

Equity in the company

3 weeks PTO plus six federal holidays

Health insurance including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, HSA, FSA

401K

Free snacks & regular team lunches

Location:

Austin, TX

Why Join Us:

You'll be in good company. Our founders have three successful startups under their belt and have recruited a stellar team to match.

We pay top of market (see comp).

We're at an earlier stage, so you'll get to wear a lot of hats and shape product decisions.

We have a good time. Culture matters a ton to us.

We're growing fast and are exceptionally well-funded.

Steadily boasts a very unique culture that our teammates love. We call it like we see it and we're nothing if not candid. Check out our culture deck here to learn what we're all about.

Steadily was awarded Top 2025 Startups in Newsweek, 2025 Best Landlord Insurance Company by Investopedia, #6 on INC Regional’s Fastest-Growing Companies, a Winner of Austin Business Journal’s 2025 Best Places to Work, and #44 on the 2025 Forbes List of Best Startup Employers.