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Active in over 60 countries and all 50 US States, we protect the customers of the world’s largest digital companies, including Klarna, Revolut, Stripe, Priceline, Agoda, Booking.com, Turkish Airlines, Tongcheng Travel, eBay, and Uber, with seamless, end-to-end experiences. Cover Genius has protected more than 73M customers globally across 240M policies with USD $3.2BN in gross written sales.\nComing off a stellar year with 40% YoY revenue growth and a recent $100M capital raise, putting our valuation at $1.9BN, we are accelerating into our next phase of growth. As part of our team, you’ll help drive our AI-first roadmap, developing hyper-personalization engines, agentic distribution, and automated claims infrastructure, while building the scalable technology powering the fast-growing $70B embedded protection market.\nOur people are: Accountable, customer-obsessed, collaborative, driven\nOur people are not: Passive, defensive, siloed, hesitant\nAbout the Role\nAs a Manager of the Developer Experience team, you will build and lead a team which builds, improves and maintains the tools, platforms and processes we use, enabling our developers to build with speed, confidence and security. To drive success in this role, you will have a customer oriented mindset and a track record of mentoring engineers and building high-performing engineering teams.\nYou will act as a product manager and engineering lead for our internal platforms, treating other engineers as your customers. You will gather requirements from developers, track key metrics (e.g. DORA, SPACE) , and continuously improve the developer experience. Regular collaboration with infrastructure, security and application engineering teams will be key in driving measurable improvements in the entire developer experience.\nKey Responsibilities:\nDevelop a high-performing team through hiring and coaching. Set a high bar for quality and ownership.\n\nAct as a product manager for developer experience by gathering data through proactive outreach, developer surveys, and tracking key metrics (e..g. DORA, SPACE).\n\nIntegrate Agentic AI workflows across the software development lifecycle, orchestrating autonomous multi-agent systems to handle automated code reviews, intelligent test generation, and context gathering, moving beyond standard code-completion tools.\n\nDesign, build, and maintain a shared \"golden path\" of tools and services, including shared libraries (e.g., logging, SSO), base images (Python, Node, PHP), CI/CD templates, and application Helm charts, in partnership with the infrastructure team.\n\nBuild automation and internal tooling to solve developer pain points, reduce toil, and streamline the entire develop-build-test iteration loop.\n\nOwn and manage developer-centric tools and vendors, including our source code repositories, artifact registries, internal documentation platforms, and AI development platforms.\n\nBuild and maintain a central catalog of services, components, and standards to improve discoverability, governance, and onboarding.\n\nIntegrate and automate security tooling (e.g., SAST, DAST, SCA) into the entire application lifecycle to create a secure software supply chain, in partnership with the Security team\n\nProvide documentation, training, and support for our internal platform tools and services to drive adoption and continuous improvement.\n\nSkills & Experience:\nWhat you will have\nA minimum of 5 years of professional software engineering, platform engineering or devops experience, including at least 2 years leading or managing engineering teams. With a proven track record of building and shipping high-quality software.\n\nDelivery leadership and product partnership skills: ability to plan, execute, and communicate against measurable outcomes.\n\nDemonstrated expertise in building AI agentic systems to drive complex, non-linear workflow automation.\n\nDeep experience building and optimizing CI/CD workflows using tools such as Gitlab Pipelines, ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, or similar.\n\nStrong programming and scripting skills for developing internal tooling, at least one programming language (e.g. Python, Go).\n\nExperience with container technology (Docker) and deploying applications to Kubernetes using tools such as Helm and Kustomize\n\nExperience with infrastructure & configuration as code tools such as Terraform\n\nFamiliarity with managing developer-centric tools like service catalogs, artifact registries, and developer documentation platforms (e.g. Backstage, Confluence).\n\nWhat you will bring\nA strong customer-centric and product mindset, with a passion for treating internal developers as first-class customers.\n\nStrong communication and documentation skills, with the ability to evangelize, train, and support fellow engineers.\n\nCurious and self-motivated learner who is eager to explore emerging trends in developer experience and AI-assisted tooling.\n\nA pragmatic and collaborative approach focused on shipping high-impact, iterative improvements.\n\nExcellent problem-solving and organizational skills with strong attention to detail.\n\nYou take responsibility for outcomes end-to-end and follow through on commitments with transparency.\n\nWhy Cover Genius?\nAt Cover Genius, we create magic by turning the archaic into the extraordinary. We take one of the world’s oldest and most complex industries and reinvent it with world-class technology. Cover Genius doesn’t just disrupt legacy insurance; we make the impossible feel effortless. Our operating principles guide our mission:\nMake today matter: We deliver with urgency and excellence. We act decisively, move with intention, and hold a high bar.\n\nAct with accountability: We own our commitments and take pride in delivering results that move us forward.\n\nGrow together: We are a collective of curious minds. We learn from wins and setbacks, share knowledge generously, and elevate each other every day.\n\nInspire Each Other: We push each other to think bigger and pull together to go further.\n\nChampion Our Customers: We lead with empathy and center the customer, turning complex disruptions into seamless moments of trust.\n\nFlexible Work Environment - Our teams are hybrid. We work from home on a Wednesday and Thursday and attend the office on Monday, Tuesday and Friday with flexibility around start/finish times.\n\nDon't just take our word for it - hear about our culture straight from our people here: story time.\n\nReady to make an impact? If you’re looking for a place where you’ll be challenged, trusted, and empowered, we’d love to meet you.\nThe Legal & Privacy Stuff\nCover Genius promotes diversity and inclusivity. We don't tolerate discrimination, demeaning treatment of anyone, or harassment due to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.\nBy submitting your application, you acknowledge that we may collect, store, and process your personal data for recruitment purposes. To ensure a fair evaluation, we may use AI to assist in sorting applications, but all final decisions are made by our hiring team and no candidate dispositions are automated. 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