VP of Engineering at Hallmark Global Technologies Ltd

Job 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 Our small core team of engineers have worked across many products. One of those projects is the ground-up creation of the client platform and scaling it successfully over the last few years. This role will work with existing team members to continue the work, while also offering mentoring and supervision. In addition, the role will be strongly involved in scaling the Otto software engineering team for dedicated work, by interviewing, training and working to onboard new engineers to support the rapidly growing business. Key Responsibilities 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 asynchronous when needed across many time zones. Qualifications and Skills: 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, as well as shepherd communication 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. Our tech stack: PHP for backend API and data processing Javascript with React for front-end Aurora/AWS data infrastructure