**Engineering Manager**
Counterpart believes in small businesses and is dedicated to helping them do
more with less risk. By pairing leading insurance experts with cutting-edge
technology, Counterpart empowers small business owners to grow with
confidence. Exceptional underwriters, trusted insurance brokers, and prominent
insurance carriers come together on the Counterpart platform to support small
businesses by providing AI-driven management and professional liability
underwriting and claims services. That’s where you come in…
As an Engineering Manager, you will balance being a prolific individual
contributor with coordinating a distributed team of developers. You will help
bridge the gap with Product & Business while driving the development of our
systems. In addition, you will help to set the culture, rituals, and processes
that underpin a high-functioning engineering team and the organization more
broadly.
**AS AN ENGINEERING MANAGER YOU WILL:**
* Lead a team of full-stack developers to execute roadmap projects.
* Break-down product requirements and technical designs into actionable tasks.
* Manage cross-team dependencies
* Alternate between hands-on coding and providing strategic technical guidance (code reviews, technical design evaluations, troubleshooting complex technical challenges, and providing contextual information to ensure team members understand the broader impact of their work).
* Adapt and refine technical plans as projects evolve to ensure continual alignment with business objectives.
* Maintain a continuous and transparent dialogue to keep technical efforts aligned with evolving product and business needs.
* Collaborate with Product Managers by providing detailed insights on the level of effort (LOE) and resource requirements to ensure the product roadmap balances business imperatives and technical feasibility.
* Actively contribute to the project design phase by taking ownership of technical design to ensure it aligns with product requirements, is scalable, and minimizes technical debt.
* Continuously mentor team members, provide constructive feedback, and conduct performance evaluations to foster professional growth and high performance.
* Continuously improve existing systems with an eye toward long-term extensibility and maintainability.
* Communicate effectively and transparently with all levels of the organization, ensuring the appropriate level of detail to facilitate understanding and engagement.
**WE LOOK FOR TEAMMATES WHO HAVE:**
* 10+ years building engaging and high-performance web applications with various frontend, backend, and cloud technologies. (We use Python, Django, AWS, React)
* 5+ years leading team, demonstrating strong leadership skills and ability to manage and mentor.
* Proven ability to manage complex projects from start to finish.
* Passion for taking on new problems as we continue to innovate.
* Experience working with a worldwide distributed team.
* Excellent communication skills, including conveying complex technical concepts and decision points in an accessible manner to non-technical stakeholders and providing clear, actionable guidance to the team.
* Demonstrated ability and willingness to contribute hands-on to code and other technical tasks as needed.
Our estimated pay range for this role is $190,000 to $220,000. Base salary is
determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to, market data,
location, internal equitability, and experience.
We are committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone. We
are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and
connected at work—regardless of who they are or where they come from. We value
and celebrate our differences and believe being open about who we are allows
us to do the best work.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against qualified
applicants or employees on the basis of race, color, religion, gender
identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin,
ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental
disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic
protected by federal, state, or local law, rule, or regulation.