Senior Engineering Manager (Frontend - SecApps)

About the role

The SecApps Frontend team is responsible for building the security product to secure 80k+ enterprise customers and allow them to mitigate security risks. In addition, we are expanding the product beyond insurance to act as its own security product.

This is a key investment for Coalition right now as there is a significant push to turn this product into a revenue stream of its own. This is evident by a recent email from the CEO to the whole company stating that this is an investment area we want to focus on.

The manager of the frontend team will work heavily with the backend and integrations teams to build the product, as well as with PMs, Design and other stakeholders to make sure we’re addressing customers needs.

Responsibilities

• Build the next gen product to protect enterprise insurance and security customers.

• Lead and coordinate engineering activities to successfully deliver product features on time while designing for quality and scalability

• Provide technical expertise and software engineering guidance to automate processes and improve team efficiency

• Provide management and mentorship to engineers in order to seek out identification of skill gaps and growth needs

• Balance managing technical debt with new feature development and business priorities

• Ensure full software lifecycle instrumentation from requirement ideation to software development to deployment

• Collaborate with Product, Design and Business staff to balance resources and project schedules

• Maintain transparent communication across all levels of the organization

• Actively participate in all phases of growing the engineering organization through recruiting, team building, etc

Skills and Qualifications

• 7+ years overall software engineering experience with 3+ years experience managing a team of at least 5 people

• Effective in leading and mentoring staff with various technical backgrounds and expertise

• Strong collaborator, with a track record of understanding customer/stakeholder needs and building to solve them

• Understanding of software development processes with the experience to apply the best type of engineering methodology to fit a situation or team dynamic

• Experience building highly interactive modern web applications 

• Proven track record of successfully delivering software and managing projects across multiple teams

• Sufficient level of technical background to objectively evaluate complex project risks and issues

• Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing priorities

• Ability to have meticulous attention to requirements while also maintaining awareness of the overall business objectives

• Experience building API-first CRUD applications using Python, React, SQL

• Expert knowledge of at least one area of computer science/engineering

• Excellent oral and written communications skills at all levels

Bonus Points

• Prior experience with insurance or security technologies

• In-depth knowledge of React

• Experience working in the InfoSec, Tech and Cybersecurity markets

• Experience working with data at scale, data science/analytics, and data collection techniques

• Familiar with building service oriented architectures and distributed systems