Head of Engineering

We employ 10,700 people across underwriting, claims, actuarial, IT and customer service. January renewals keep everyone busy for a few weeks.

The role:

This is a newly created position. This is a hands-on coding role on software used by a few hundred thousand people. Expect code review, design discussions and a fair amount of debugging. Carbone Risk Advisors is hiring for the Head of Engineering role on our Core Services team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Working hours overlap with Central European Time.

Main duties:

• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.

Required qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.

Nice to have:

• Kubernetes and Docker in production.
• Contributions to open source projects.
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.

Starting pay: $275,000-$365,000 annually, depending on experience and certifications.

Why work with us:

• Paid in USD.
• Long-term engagement.
• Paid time off.
• Company laptop.

Interview process: a phone call, a meeting with the hiring manager, and a final conversation with the team.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Carbone Risk Advisors.