Job Description
About Ledger Investing
Ledger Investing is a startup that is transforming the way that insurance risks are financed. Today, Ledger is an online marketplace for connecting insurance risk to capital, focusing on securitization. Risk originators such as insurers and brokers get capital more efficiently than from traditional sources. Capital providers such as pension plans and other institutional investors get access to an asset class that is highly diversifying to traditional asset classes. Insurance securitization is already a $100 billion market but is limited in scope as a consequence of the opacity and complexity of the asset class. Ledger is working to expand the market to $1 trillion by building a seamless data pipeline from the policyholder to the capital markets, bringing transparency, objective analytics and real time portfolio insights to the table. As the company grows, we will be a marketplace for virtually all types of insurance risks and capital, including traditional reinsurers, institutional investors, and accredited investors. We are venture-backed by Y Combinator (class of winter 2017 class) and recently raised a $75 million series B to fund exponential growth.
About the Team:
- The engineering platform team is a remote-first team building the web platforms, data infrastructure, and developer APIs that shape how people understand and handle billions of dollars of insurance risk
- Engineers at Ledger have the opportunity to touch every part of the tech stack
- We collaborate frequently with product thinkers, designers, sales, and domain experts to carefully craft valuable customer experiences
- We believe in collaboration, communicating often, and treating others with kindness and respect
- We believe everyone should have significant ownership and measurable impact
- We believe in continuously improvement and constantly evaluate what works and what doesn’t
At Ledger, you will have the opportunity to:
- Develop the long-term vision and strategy for the engineering team, prioritize accordingly, and create an execution roadmap
- Manage processes to help the engineering team do its best work and engage effectively across the organization
- Research technical solutions and help define the architecture for our different applications
- Create tasks and explain specs. Assist engineers formulate and develop proper solutions. Run sprint planning and retrospective.
- Mentor and coach engineers to create healthy and well-executing teams
- Develop engineering leaders on the team, helping them advance in their careers
- Recruit great engineers in collaboration with Ledger’s talent team
- Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Ledger’s engineering leadership team
You will be effective if you have:
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer in an engineering-focused organization
- A strong understanding of backend and frontend architecture
- 2+ years of experience as a leader of a team of 20+ team members
- Experience leading engineering teams
- Experience driving business and product success in a highly cross-functional organization
- Successfully built a team, defined its mission, and executed on its goals
- Experience working closely with Product Management and Design
- Effectively recruited, mentored, and retained great talent
- The ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility
Benefits:
- Generous salary and equity compensation
- Work from anywhere. Our headquarters are in New York, but this position can be full-time remote.
- Unlimited paid vacation time
- 401k
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Gym membership
- $5,000 paid by Ledger towards your dream desk setup!
Ledger Investing is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex, gender (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender or transsexual individual), sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, predisposing genetic characteristic, domestic violence victim status, arrest records, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law.
Date Posted
10/05/2022
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