Leading teams of C# and React engineers across US and India, you will manage developers responsible for the delivery of world class software for the entire sales workflow from quoting, insurance applications, e-signature to submission, used by the top US Life and Annuities carriers and distributors. You will focus relentlessly on delivering high-quality software products, raising the bar on engineering practices, agile development, and help migrate the application stack to a modern services oriented product while maintaining the highest standards for availability and quality.
About Us
Join a team where we encourage creativity and innovation, champion teamwork and are committed to being the best. In this environment we strive to provide our clients best-in-class solutions that transform business processes and empower sales across all insurance, retirement and investment products.
Hexure, started with a simple goal: transform the insurance and financial services industry through powerful end-to-end sales solutions. For more than 25 years, carriers and distributors have depended on our commitment to innovation, speed to market delivery and deep domain expertise. Our solutions have been implemented within industry-leading insurance carriers and distribution firms. And our track record of empowering client success speaks for itself.
Together as a team, we strive to provide our clients best-in-class solutions that transform business processes and empower sales across all insurance, retirement and investment products. We endeavor to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better solutions for our clients.
Why you’ll love working here:
- Generous benefit packages - We offer our employees competitive health insurance options, including medical, dental, and vision plans, as well as long term and short-term disability insurance.
- Pre-tax savings programs including flexible spending accounts, and a 401K that is competitively matched!
- Lifestyle Spending Account. This provides an employee the flexibility to spend benefit dollars on the things that matter most to them.
- Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO). Work-life balance is a key part of our company culture here at Hexure, and we know that our employees do their best work when they can take the time they need to rest and recharge.
- Office Closures – Inclusion and Diversity are integral to enhancing our culture. In support of this, we offer 6 companywide office closures and encourage all employees to use flexible PTO to celebrate religious or cultural holidays, employee birthdays, or other state or federal holidays that bring personal meaning.
- In addition to all the standard PTO options, Hexure proudly offers a generous and progressive paid Modern Family Leave policy.
- Professional Development - Hexure supports you and your professional development with a LinkedIn learning account.
- We also have employee anniversary perks, health, and wellness programs, and much more!
- Most benefits are effective on date of hire!
Deliverables and Performance Measures:
Delivery Metrics
- Value Delivered Metrics: Measure the business value delivered by your teams. This could include features committed to versus released, user stories completed, bugs versus features with rationale for the productivity of the teams
- Delivery Efficiency Metrics: Assess how efficiently your teams are delivering software. Look at lead time (from idea to deployment) and cycle time (from development to deployment).
- Backlog Health Metrics: Evaluate the health of your backlog. Consider metrics like backlog size, aging items, and prioritization effectiveness.
- Delivery Quality Metrics: Focus on software quality. Metrics can include defect density, code review feedback, and test coverage.
- Sprint Metrics (Dependability Metrics): Assess sprint performance. Metrics include sprint completion rate, sprint goals achieved, and velocity, team improvements and actions to close gaps.
- Code Metrics: Examine code-related metrics. Consider commit counts, pull request metrics, and code complexity.
Ways of Working Improvements
- Value employees and recognize those who engaged and motivated teams drive success. Monitoring employee engagement levels, fostering a positive work culture, and retaining talented individuals are important factors in long-term success.
- Emphasize the importance of collaboration and self-organizing teams. Monitoring team morale, satisfaction, and collaboration levels can provide insights into the overall health of the team and its ability to deliver value consistently.
- Strive for continuous improvement. Regularly reflect on processes, seek feedback, and adapt proven best practices. Metrics such as the number of process improvements implemented, retrospective action items completed, and the adoption of new technologies or practices can indicate commitment to continuous learning and evolution.
Other Performance Measures
- Oversees and supervises developers and team leads, setting performance objectives, conducting annual performance reviews, and recommending pay actions.
- Develops, mentors and coaches team, fosters a positive work environment
- Leads and manages the technical activities of multiple complex software development projects.
- Drives adherence to existing processes and defines new and improved processes within the groups.
- Motivates teams to solve problems and deliver high-quality results.
- Manages stakeholder relationships across the business group and the company.
- Performs risk and dependency management across the engineering organization.
- Oversees resource planning activities, aligns work and resources with the organization's strategy, and integrates across boundaries as necessary.
- Ensures the product group delivers software within accepted quality standards by facilitating a working "definition of done" (DoD) for Agile stories within each group.
What will make you successful:
- Strong engineering background implementing customer-facing mission-critical web applications in C#, React, or comparable frameworks. Azure experience a plus.
- Strong Product mind, able to contribute to evolution of product requirements and help shape product and roadmap decisions by providing sound advice across the functional/technical spectrum
- 10+ years total experience in software development and 5+ years of experience leading diverse global teams of different competencies and sizes.
- Ability to multitask and manage several projects simultaneously.
- Overseeing technology changes and effective execution including optimization of the current code base, improving the process of delivery execution using devops practices, and developing a SaaS offering
- IOS/Android mobile experience is a plus
- Experience in Life Insurance, Annuities, InsTech / Insurance Industry, or broader FinTech is a plus
- Experience with consulting / client-delivery / solutions delivery environments and activities is a plus
- Deep experience with large footprint 3rd party integrations and external software integrations
- Deep knowledge of Agile delivery methodology and metrics tracking and continuous improvement.
- Strong leadership, verbal, and written communication skills.
- Ability to manage third-party relationships when required.
- Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills.
Core Competencies
- Interpersonal Skills: Now more than ever, the ability to build relationships with team members and clients is pivotal to the success of our organization. We are looking for candidates who can communicate effectively and help cultivate an agile environment of collaboration and inclusion.
- Personal Capabilities: We believe that the way people manage themselves and their relationships with others in the workplace is critical to the success of our organization. We are looking for candidates that effectively put their knowledge, values, and skills into practice.
- Focus on Results: As a company that values innovation, we are looking for candidates who will help drive efforts to build commitment for individual and team objectives, as well as anticipate and respond to issues and opportunities that could affect the organization.
- Customer Advocacy: Our purpose is to empower our clients to deliver customer-centric sales experiences, accelerate speed to market, improve in-good-order sales and meet regulatory requirements. This requires a focus on our customer‘s satisfaction. We are looking for candidates who can understand the needs and concerns of our clients and address them quickly and expertly.
Expected hours of Work:
This is a full-time position with regular office hours Monday through Friday. This position may work with the India office a few days a week and will require an earlier start to the day around 6:30MT. This position may require after work hours and occasional weekends, depending on work demands.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $120,000.00 - $130,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
Experience level:
Schedule:
Work Location: Remote
