[Hiring] VP of Engineering @Hallmark Global Technologies Ltd

Role Description

We are a digital broker for Auto, Home, Pet, and Life Insurance. Our focus is to create the most seamless and unobtrusive user experience from the first click to policy being closed.

About The Role:

• Work with existing team members to continue the work on the client platform.
• Offer mentoring and supervision.
• Involved in scaling the Otto software engineering team through interviewing, training, and onboarding new engineers.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Team leader with the ability to recruit, train, and retain staff.
• Demonstrated ability to report to non-technical executives and communicate with partners on both business and technical levels.
• Strong understanding of agile methodologies and the software development life cycle.
• Design and build scalable infrastructure with an eye for efficiency and budget.
• Willing to dive into tough problems either in a group or building out early stages of development solo.
• Experience with PHP/JavaScript a plus.

Requirements

• Work with executive leadership to develop clear, concise technical plans for business needs.
• Effectively communicate those plans for implementation with an established engineering team.
• Support the engineering efforts to write clean, stable code.
• Hire and develop talent, provide consistent coaching and feedback.
• Develop efficient processes to tackle everyday problems.
• Participate in code review processes across multiple languages.
• Ability to communicate asynchronously when needed across many time zones.

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