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Root Inc. · 1 hour ago

Staff Software Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$180K/yr - $229K/yr

7+ years exp

Root Inc. is an innovative insurtech company aiming to revolutionize the car insurance industry through technology. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead engineering efforts, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive the technical strategy for product domains.

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H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Co-lead your team with your Engineering Manager, helping to coach, model for and grow the other team members

Partner with Product, Data Science, Analytics, and experts in the Insurance group to set the strategy for the quarters to come

Identify and socialize important technical initiatives that increase the effectiveness of our products, systems, and teams

Contribute code strategically each development cycle to advance the impact of the team

Lead by example in incident response ensuring we take action to continuously improve the resiliency of our systems

Coordinate with Staff Engineers across the organization to establish and evangelize standards and best practices

Qualification

Ruby on RailsLeadershipReactSoftware EngineeringCommunication Skills

Required

7+ years as a software engineer

3+ years leading software teams

Expertise in Ruby on Rails

Familiarity with React

Proven leadership of projects involving multiple teams across functional domains

Excellent communication skills both with engineering colleagues and senior business leaders

Company

Root Inc.

Glassdoor3.0

Root Inc. is disrupting the archaic, trillion-dollar insurance industry.

Founded in 2015

Bloomington, Indiana, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.root.com

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