Director of Engineering

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $215k - $240k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🖥 Software Engineer

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Pawlicy Advisor

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1 - 10 employees

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

Healthcare • Consulting • Marketing

Pawlicy Advisor is an independent marketplace and comparison tool focused on helping pet owners find the best pet insurance for their animals. By collaborating with leading pet insurance companies, Pawlicy Advisor offers personalized recommendations and allows users to compare multiple insurance plans side-by-side. With a data-driven approach, the platform helps uncover savings by analyzing hundreds of policy variations and fine-print details. Pawlicy Advisor aims to provide unbiased advice and support, ensuring pet owners can select coverage that fits their specific needs and budget. Their service is free to use, supported through commissions from insurance companies.

📋 Description

• Lead the engineering organization and own technical strategy, architecture, quality, security, delivery, and engineering team growth • Make key architectural decisions, including major technology choices, build-versus-buy decisions, site scalability, and carrier integrations • Conduct product and infrastructure security reviews, vendor security questionnaires, and audits • Serve as the technical point of contact and leader with key partners • Own release management and deployment, including CI/CD, release cadence, rollbacks, and production stability • Prioritize technical debt and refactoring against feature velocity • Own QA and testing processes, including automated coverage, manual QA, and release quality standards • Manage on-call rotations, escalation paths, incident response, and postmortems • Develop engineers through 1:1s, performance feedback, career development, and removing blockers • Build and onboard the engineering team as the company grows • Approve internal software based on cost, security, and fit, including renewals and replacements • Manage engineering tooling and infrastructure spend, including cloud costs, licenses, and consolidation opportunities • Own and evolve the company’s AI policy and best practices and lead AI adoption • Partner on OKRs, product priorities, technical debt, delivery timelines, design QA, security reviews, integrations, and reliable data flow • Report directly to the Chief Product Officer

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience • 5+ years managing engineers • 2+ years in a senior engineering leadership role (Director, or senior-most technical leader), ideally at an early stage startup or fast-moving environment • Experience with TypeScript, Next.js, Node, GraphQL, Postgres, and AWS • Proven ownership of technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for a production consumer product • Experience building or scaling the team that delivered a production consumer product • Comfortable reviewing PRs, reading code deeply, and jumping into an incident • Experience with application security and third-party compliance, including security reviews, vendor questionnaires, and audits • Track record of excellent cross-department communication and relationships leading to business success • Practical enthusiasm for AI-assisted development • Legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship • Preferred: experience in insurance or fintech, or with partner API integrations • Extra points if you love animals and believe pet healthcare is a serious, underserved problem

🏖️ Benefits

• Startup equity grant • Top-tier medical, dental, and vision insurance • 401(k) employer contributions • Flexible vacation • Remote-first within the United States