Director, Software Engineering

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $230k - $260k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Spark

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51 - 200 employees

🏥 Healthcare

📣 Marketing

🛡️ Insurance

Healthcare • Marketing • Insurance

Spark is a modern platform that revolutionizes the insurance brokerage industry by providing cutting-edge technology and expert services. It aims to enhance broker productivity, streamline operations, and accelerate agency growth. Spark offers a comprehensive suite of tools, including business reporting, contracting, licensing, marketing, and customer service support, particularly focusing on Medicare. Through strategic partnerships, Spark helps brokerages scale efficiently, ensuring unparalleled visibility and insights into business operations.

📋 Description

• Lead engineering across the broker productivity product and core platform • Ensure the platform keeps up with a fast-growing customer base and remains sustainable as it scales • Own engineering delivery for multiple squads and software-engineering practices across the organization • Partner with product leaders on roadmaps • Own and communicate the infrastructure roadmap, including platform migrations, vendor integrations, sustainability work, and AI enablement • Serve as the point person for software-platform security, including penetration-test and audit remediation, in partnership with IT, DevOps, and data teams • Manage around six engineers across three squads at full headcount and own the hiring plan • Hire senior and staff engineers, develop tech leads, and design a scalable team structure • Take ambiguous problems from definition through resolution • Represent software engineering in company-wide planning and cross-functional work • Participate hands-on in design reviews, specifications, code reviews, and spikes • Report to the SVP of Engineering

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in software engineering, including meaningful time in a startup environment • 3+ years managing engineers, including leading multiple teams or managing through tech leads • Experience managing managers is a strong plus • Strong technical foundation in web applications: Python/Django or similar, and JavaScript frameworks such as Vue or React • Judgment to review designs and code credibly • Experience owning a platform or infrastructure roadmap and explaining it to non-technical leadership • Experience delivering large migrations or third-party integrations • Working knowledge of application security and compliance in a regulated environment, such as HIPAA or SOC 2 • Proven track record hiring and developing senior engineers and tech leads • Comfort working across many kinds of problems at once, with good judgment about where to spend time • Strong written and verbal communication, especially with leadership and cross-functional partners • All work must be conducted from an approved location within the U.S. • Employment eligibility in the United States is verified through E-Verify

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity compensation • Health care, including dental and vision • Flexible work location; co-working available • 401k • Paid Time Off • Monthly Remote Work Stipend (help cover costs of home-office needs) • Paid Parental Leave: up to 14 weeks for birthing parents and up to 8 weeks for non-birth parents • 11 paid holidays • 2 week sabbatical at 5 years of employment • Wellbeing Perks through SpringHealth, Calm, and more • Company retreats • Travel and time off supported

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