Manager Software Engineering (Remote)

Applied Systems, Inc., a worldwide leader in insurance technology, is currently searching for a Manager of Software Engineering to join our Epic Benefits team. In this People Leadership role, you will manage software engineers and provide technical expertise to ensure velocity and delivery of high quality technical solutions. You’ll play a pivotal role in creating impactful solutions that drive innovation and efficiency for our clients’ businesses.

What You’ll Do

• Lead a team of software engineers to develop, test, and deliver new features

• Be accountable for the team’s commitments and delivery, including code review and architectural decisions

• Empower the team with clear goals and a data-informed approach to ensure excellence

• Provide professional and technical leadership with guidance, coaching, and feedback needed to support continuous learning and collaboration within the team

• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement with the team

• Collaborate with Product Management, Architecture, and other Engineering Leaders to define work

• Monitor active work to reduce scope change, escalate blockers, and drive collaboration needed to deliver on roadmap commitments and quality goals

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• 8+ years of experience creating enterprise software

• 3+ years managing software engineering teams

• Technical experience with Golang and React, as well as C#, Node Js, JavaScript, or TypeScript

• Knowledge of software development lifecycle methodology and testing practices

• Expertise in software development and test automation to ensure quality

• Ability to recruit, develop, and retain software development teams
• Proficiency with microservice architecture, cloud computing and related technologies such as AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Apigee, DataDog, Amplitude, Google data lake and BigQuery
• Experience administrating and developing with Postgres DB

• Experience with Scrum practices and tools like Jira and Confluence

• Experience with Git source repositories

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, MIS, or CIS, or equivalent work experience

• We proudly support and encourage people with military experience, as well as military spouses, to apply

What You’ll Gain

Benefits from Day One

• Health insurance plans, dental, and vision
• Wellness incentives
• 401(k) and/or RRSP retirement savings plans with employer match

Work-Life Balance

• Competitive paid vacation time and a free day for your birthday
• Personal/sick time
• Paid holidays
• Flex Time
• Paid parental leave (U.S. candidates)
• Volunteer time off

Empowering Career Growth and Success – We invest in talent, care about our people and are empowered by the results of our work. We grow our teams from within and give our employees opportunities to advance.

What We Value

We strive for excellence at every turn to be the best at what we do. We invest in talent, care about our people, and are empowered by the results of our work. We fulfill the promise of insurance – safeguarding and protecting what matters most in people’s lives. And there is no more important job than that.

Our focus on the workforce, workplace and marketplace gives us a qualified individual in an environment in which they can be productive while we maintain our position in the industry. To help drive that change toward a vibrant, modern workplace, we have employee-driven networks with commonalities in ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and military status.

Who We Are

Applied Systems is the leading global provider of cloud-based software that powers the business of insurance. Recognized as a pioneer in insurance automation and the innovation leader, Applied is the world’s largest agency and brokerage management systems provider, serving customers throughout the United States, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, and the United Kingdom. By automating the insurance lifecycle, Applied’s people and products enable millions of people worldwide to safeguard and protect what matters most.

For 40 years, Applied Systems has led an industry we helped to create with a mission to continuously improve the business of insurance. From partnerships, acquisitions, and insurance innovation initiatives, Applied has focused on efforts to be the indispensable partner in our industry.

It’s an exciting time at Applied. You can do big things here, in an environment that supports creative thinking and bold ideas. Visit http://www.AppliedSystems.com for more information on how you can challenge what’s possible.

EEO Statement

Applied Systems is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Diversity and Inclusion is a business imperative and is a part of building our brand and reputation. At Applied, we don’t discriminate, and we are committed to recruit, develop, retain, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.

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