Manager, Development

$100000 - $140000 / year

Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solution are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business, boost their productivity and efficiencies, and lower costs while strengthening relationships.

Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation, technology partnerships, and focusing on customer success.

Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create, think, and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better.

We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices across the U.S., Canada, and India.

JOB DESCRIPTION 

Vertafore is looking for a Development Manager to lead multiple growing Platform teams. At Vertafore we work with a diverse set of systems and technologies. You'll get a chance to help advance our Architecture and Site Reliability practices within the company. These teams' responsibilities include observability and monitoring tooling, collaborating with development teams to implement SRE solutions, and implementing solutions for development and support staff.

Our Platform teams are responsible for supporting multiple products and development teams in architecture and development practices, log aggregation, monitoring, and infrastructure design. We work closely with development teams to learn their pain points and come up with creative solutions to help make them more efficient. Some days we're working to implement shared frameworks for dev teams and other days we are working on production issues that directly impact our customers. Vertafore gives you a chance to learn and use a wide variety of skills while working alongside some amazing people.

Our technology stack is largely Linux based, with most of our code being written in Java. We also work with many opensource technologies and platforms.

• 3+ years leading software development or infrastructure related teams 
• Knowledge of Site Reliability philosophies and practices 
• Some knowledge of Infrastructure Provisioning Tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar) 
• Experience using a configuration management tool (Chef, Ansible, Puppet, or similar)
• 1-2 years working with a cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP). 
• Experience putting together build pipelines (Jenkins, Bamboo, GitLab, TFS, TeamCity, etc.)
• Have an intense passion for technology, problem solving, and delighting customers 
• Have a proven track record in leading development and operations of enterprise web delivery platforms and services in a high performance and high-availability SaaS environment 
• Have experience troubleshooting complex production issues at scale and under tight timelines 
• Develop and communicate compelling analyses and recommendations over aggregate trends from internal feedback 
• Are energetic, effectively managing relationships (up, down, across) and able to roll-up their sleeves to get the job done 
• Think strategically to help drive features and services for short and long-term growth 
• Provide strong people management: attracting, retaining, inspiring, and growing individuals; demonstrate a passion for people development and mobility 

• Travel anticipated up to 5% of the time
• Ability to work remotely with a stable internet connection
• Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds
• Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.)
• Frequent sitting and/or standing

Vertafore is a Flexible First working environment which allows team members to work from home as often as you’d like, while using our offices as a place for collaboration, community, and teambuilding. There are times you may be asked to come into an office and/or travel for specific meetings for a specific business purpose and this varies by job responsibilities.