Senior Software Engineering Manager

Friday, January 10, 2025

We are a team of employees who are passionate to deliver best in-class customer service and innovation in the industry. It’s because we put Integrity, Relationships, and Excellence in all aspects of our work. Our employees have the opportunity to fully utilize their talents and bring their best self. We believe that who you are is just as important as what you do!

We are looking for an inspiring Sr. Software Engineering Manager that can lead our teams in developing, innovating, and launching digital insurance products at scale. You will be a thought leader in the broader Central engineering community as well as a business partner to our stakeholders. You will partner with product management on roadmap development, articulate the story internally and externally, shape a long-term strategy, and lead several teams towards execution. We expect our leaders to be coaches and people development is a critical focus for this role. We are looking for someone who can influence business decisions by furthering a data-driven and analytical culture. We expect a high-performing individual to have strong experience in leveraging data to influence organizational decisions and innovate new methods for improvement.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Engages with senior management to establish strategic plans and objectives.
• Assists in the creation of technology strategy and engineering roadmaps by partnering with other engineering managers, directors, and stakeholders on one or more teams.
• Communicates multi-year functional strategy. Sets expectations for team and holds them accountable for results.
• Directs strategies around technology equipment / software negotiation, procurement, and inventory management. Manages assigned vendor relationships and assists with budget and contracts where applicable. Provides input on refresh strategies to leadership.
• Accountable for continuous improvement of team through mentorship, deepened technical aptitude, and professional development.
• Organizes and unblocks collaboration and partnership at multiple levels, across business groups and functions to achieve the organizational mission.
• Responsible for managing team workloads through capacity planning, process improvement, and staffing.
• Evaluates performance of team members following Central’s performance management process and holds employees to organizational standards.
• Audits team performance through the development of SLAs and KPIs. Reports against them on a regular basis as required.
• Designs incident management reactions and responses. Executes response when necessary.
• Leads engineers on one or more product-facing teams.
• Makes final decisions on implementation and ensures operational effectiveness.
• Guides the product manager on design and implementation trade-offs against economic and time costs.
• Translates user requirements into executable work items that the software engineering team can implement in the product.
• Has the detailed technical knowledge necessary to explain feature requirements to developers and work with them to deliver these product improvements to end users.
• Partners with cross-functional software development teams to help them prioritize, plan, track, and execute complex, cross-organizational programs.
• Conducts managerial interviews for candidates.

What You’ll Bring

The experience expected from applicants, as well as additional skills and qualifications needed for this job are listed below.

Or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and 6 years related experience including 1 year management experience.

Work Authorization

Central will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1 (including those with OPT or CPT), H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J, or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of Central that all recruiting, hiring, training, compensation, overtime, job classification and assignment, facilities, promotions, transfers, employee treatment, and all other terms and conditions of employment shall be maintained in a manner which will not discriminate against any person because of race, color, age, sex, national origin, ancestry, religion, marital status, military status, or disability. The applicant should respond to questions on this application in a way that will not divulge such information. #LI-Hybrid #LI-AS1

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