Engineering Manager

Come join VisitorsCoverage, one of Silicon Valley's most successful InsurTech companies, certified as a Great Place to Work®! We are looking for a full-time Engineering Manager to join our Engineering team.

What We Do:

VisitorsCoverage is an Insurtech company, located in the heart of Silicon Valley, revolutionizing the way travelers search, compare, purchase, and manage their travel insurance. Imagine a place where buying travel insurance is as easy as ordering an item from your favorite online retailer. You know exactly what the benefits are and what each word on the coverage document means, and you are able to zip through the checkout process. We are obsessed with simplifying Travel Insurance! We wake up everyday thinking of new ways to meet the same expectations that users have from their online retailers and delivery or streaming services. We are a team of people who counter the thought that insurance is boring and love the challenge of delighting our users at every step of their decision-making process.

If this sounds like the perfect role and workplace for you, we encourage you to apply for this position! VisitorsCoverage is on a mission to hire only the best, and we are committed to providing exceptional employee experiences with meaningful work and true work/life balance.

Local Bay Area Candidates Only. Candidates with authorization to work in the US preferred. No new H1B visas will be processed but a H1B transfer may be considered for the right candidate.

Requirements

Required Skills:

• Must have experience in building customer facing web applications.
• Must be very knowledgeable in web hosting and web architecture.
• Must be able to guide and make architectural decisions to enable the building of efficient and reusable services, APIs, and web applications.
• Must have good communication skills.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of web developers and QA engineers to build and maintain all products in our portfolio.
• Be accountable for managing the sprint process and the team's deliveries.
• Create a workplace that reduces friction and maximizes individual output.
• Help the team make the tradeoffs between building the perfect solution and a timely solution.
• Set goals and expectations to build and deploy robust, scalable systems.
• Roll up your sleeves and help the team with architectural discussions, problem-solving meetings, technology research, testing, deployment and anything else as needed.
• Support live-site operations, on-call engineering, and lead incident response when needed.
• Lead technical discussions and negotiations with partners, vendors and staffing agencies.
• Work with cross functional teams and assist product owners in planning, estimating and scheduling engineering tasks.
• Conduct regular one on ones, coach and mentor team members.
• Recruit and retain talented web developers and quality assurance engineers.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 2 years of experience in managing a team of 5 or more Web Developers and QA Engineers.
• 5+ years of web development experience. Experience in PHP and any frontend technology such as VueJS, React or Angular preferred.
• A BS or MS in computer science or equivalent

Benefits

• 100% company paid individual medical, dental, & vision insurance coverage
• Pet insurance
• Paid parental leave
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid time off for annual charity or volunteer work
• Generous paid time off
• Fitness/Wellness gym stipend
• Great work-life balance

The salary range for this position is $180k - $220k/year with a potential to be adjusted higher for the right candidate. The salary range for this position is dependent on location and experience.