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Accountable for your team’s delivery, technical quality, production ownership, and growth, you will partner closely with Product and Design. You will stay close to the code, the customer problem, and operational reality.\nYou will initially lead a core product engineering team (e.g., our Policy Management Platform or another strategic domain). You’ll help power embedded insurance experiences used by top global brands.\nLead the Charge: AI-Assisted Engineering\nTurn AI into a competitive edge by championing the pragmatic integration of AI tools. You will identify high-impact applications for coding agents, define clear guardrails, and mentor engineers to ensure human accountability for security and quality remains paramount.\nCultivate a thoughtful AI culture: Use agents intentionally for implementation, debugging, and documentation.\nEstablish responsible guardrails: Maintain rigorous human review, testing, and ownership of AI-generated output. Manage data sensitivity.\nCoach for excellence: Emphasize strong technical specs and recognize when human judgment outweighs automation.\nMeasure what matters: Focus on outcomes like reduced toil and improved delivery flow over simply tracking tool adoption.\nScale best practices: Collaborate with Principal and Platform engineers to refine reusable tooling across the organization.\nYour Impact: What You’ll Do\nYou will own engineering outcomes end-to-end, contributing from discovery and technical design through implementation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.\nFoster Talent & Drive Delivery\nChampion team execution: Partner with the PM to turn priorities into realistic plans with a predictable, high-quality shipping cadence.\nCultivate engineering growth: Mentor and develop your team through consistent feedback, performance management, and dedicated coaching.\nBuild a high-trust culture: Promote psychological safety and accountability.\nCollaborative leadership: Work with fellow Engineering Leads to optimize cross-team workflows without unnecessary bureaucracy.\nStay Rooted in Technical Excellence\nPlayer-coach mentality: Engage with the codebase for credible technical guidance-participating in designs, reviews, and incident resolution.\nElevate the quality bar: Own standards for code quality, automated testing, security, observability, and maintainability.\nOperational Resilience: Run and iterate on what you build, leading blameless post-mortems and fixing recurring debt.\nPragmatic decision-making: Balance speed, security, and technical debt to deliver maximum product value.\nLeverage expertise: Partner with Principal Engineers on complex missions while keeping daily technical ownership within your team.\nBridge Product and Engineering\nStrategic partnership: Act as the PM's technical counterpart, collaborating on scoping and sequencing to prevent delivery surprises.\nMeaningful discovery: Provide technical perspective to translate vague requirements into robust software solutions.\nDesign alignment: Explicitly discuss usability and technical feasibility trade-offs with Designers.\nTransparent communication: Articulate technical trade-offs to stakeholders, justifying decisions with a focus on practical outcomes.\nOptimize the Ecosystem\nEliminate friction: Reduce operational toil, recurring bugs, and unnecessary hand-offs.\nChampion shared tooling: Integrate shared platform capabilities and security best practices.\nEmpower autonomy: Help engineers become confident decision-makers, reducing reliance on any single individual.\nYour Arsenal: The Skills You Bring\nTechnical leadership and depth: 7+ years building and operating production systems. Strong engineering fundamentals. Hands-on enough to guide design, review code, and solve complex problems. Qover’s platform relies on TypeScript, Node.js, React, and MongoDB, but we welcome leaders from ecosystems like Java, C#, Go, or Python. Experience with distributed systems and API design is key.\nEngineering ownership: Responsibility for quality, security, maintainability, and operability. You provide high-signal code reviews.\nDelivery foundations: Experience with RESTful APIs, 3rd-party integrations, data consistency, Git workflows, CI/CD, and automated deployments.\n Cloud and operations: Experience with cloud environments (GCP preferred). Docker/Kubernetes familiarity is a plus. Comfortable improving observability and incident response.\nPeople leadership: Experience managing, coaching, and developing engineers. Able to create clarity and give direct feedback.\nProduct partnership: Skilled at working with stakeholders to make pragmatic trade-offs on scope, risk, and delivery.\nAI-native engineering leadership: Hands-on experience using coding agents/AI tools to improve throughput and quality. Accountable for responsible adoption, defining workflows, and measuring value without compromising human oversight.\nDomain experience: Experience in insurance, fintech, or another regulated domain is a strong advantage.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nReliable delivery: Roadmap goals translate into results through transparent sequencing and reduced delivery surprises.\nTeam growth and engagement: High engagement and trust empower engineers; performance coaching resolves talent challenges.\nSystem resilience: Measurable upward trend in quality/stability, with fewer recurring defects and reduced friction.\nProduct-engineering partnership: Unified team making collaborative trade-offs instead of rigid hand-offs.\nEffective AI-assisted engineering: Pragmatic adoption of AI tools that accelerates development speed without compromising human-led standards.\nThe Vibe: Who You Are\nThe pragmatic player-coach: Cares about clean code and healthy practices; knows when to prioritize shipping and learning.\nThe adaptable explorer: Comfortable in a scale-up with shifting priorities. Actively uses AI-assisted engineering where it creates value.\nThe communicator: Communicates clearly, asks good questions, and collaborates well across functions.\n The fun co-worker: Constructive, kind, and collaborative. 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