Principal Software Engineer

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🕒 May 27

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Root Inc.

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2015

💸 Finance

👥 B2C

💰 $200M Post IPO debt on 2024-11

Finance • B2C

Root Inc. is an auto insurance company that uses a mobile app and smartphone sensor telematics to measure driving behavior and price policies primarily based on how safely customers drive. The company offers a "test drive" period to gather driving data, provides in-app quotes, policy management, and claims filing, and sells roadside assistance and other coverages across many U. S. states. Root targets consumer drivers (B2C) seeking usage-based insurance and emphasizes savings for safer drivers.

📋 Description

• Drive end-to-end execution of large-scale, strategic initiatives that materially improve business outcomes (e.g., revenue, loss ratio, customer experience). • Align leaders and teams around high-value initiatives, ensuring clarity on priorities, tradeoffs, and expected impact. • Make and influence decisions on organizational structure, team topology, and resource allocation to enable successful execution of critical initiatives. • Set and guide priorities across multiple teams and domains, balancing short-term delivery with long-term scalability and resilience. • Lead cross-functional collaboration with Product, Data Science, and business stakeholders to translate strategy into coordinated execution. • Establish and evolve technical standards, architecture, and best practices that scale across the organization. • Communicate complex technical and strategic concepts to drive decision-making and alignment at the executive level. • Coach and influence engineering leaders and senior ICs, raising the organization’s ability to identify opportunities and deliver business impact at scale. • Coordinate with Staff Engineers across the organization to establish and evangelize standards and best practices.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years as a software engineer • Proven leadership of projects involving multiple teams across functional domains • Excellent communication skills both with engineering colleagues and senior business leaders

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive Bonus • Equity Offering