Head Software Engineering

About the role

iptiQ owns a business unit called Sales Solutions that provides E2E distribution capabilities to support partners that need help in this space. We help partners (e.g. Ecosystem, Financials and Insurers) bring top-tier insurance products to their consumers, through our best-in-class marketing & sales teams.

About the team

This opportunity is about building and supporting an exciting and challenging technology platform within a fast-pasted growing Sales Solutions business unit of iptiQ. Do you have experience designing and building innovative SaaS solutions critical to the delivery of business outcomes?   Do you enjoy delivering solutions through agile delivery process using solid software practices? Do you continuously look for ways to be better every day? Are you motivated by the passion to deliver innovative and cutting-edge solutions that will be the market differentiator for the business? If you think you fit the bill, then apply now!

About You

• You will lead complex technical projects that represent multi-vendor and/or complex business needs.
• You will lead solution designing to deliver high quality, secure, scalable solutions
• You will be hiring, managing, and coaching distributed scrum team members
• You will oversee and be accountable the delivery quality of the teams' commitments
• You will strengthen and enforce the agile delivery practice within the team
• You will become the subject matter expertise for the feature functions and how it impacts the business
• You will be collaborating with functional leaders in Product Management and Operations on defining feature roadmaps and priorities
• You will be hands on with the software and works through technical challenges with developers
• You will lead research and evaluation of new technologies and patterns leads to quality PoCs
• You will leverage your experience to continuously optimize the existing tech landscape
• You will be the liaison between Production Support and scrum team
• You will be assisting in production troubleshooting and triaging of issues to their respective teams

Education

You have BS in Computer Science / Engineering or related field or equivalent experience. 

Experience

• 8 years of hands-on development as a professional developer. 1 year minimum managing a team
• Expertise in one or more of the following languages / runtimes: Scala, Play, React, Java, Node, .NET, Python, or similar language. 
• Experience with rational and NOSQL databases
• Expertise in as many areas of the following: ESB/API Gateways, Workflow Engines, Rules Engines, Authentication/Authorization, Message/event queues
• Minimum 2 years of experience in Scrum and Agile based environment
• Experience with quality development practices, including unit tests, build systems, peer reviews and automated functional tests 
• Experience with SaaS or Enterprise Software development
• Deep understanding of web application architectures (e.g. SPA, SSO, JWT, etc.)
• Experience with containerization technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience with cloud-based technologies, including Azure, AWS
• Experience in insurance/agency domain is a plus
• Experience in CRM solutions is a plus

For New York the estimated base salary range for this position is $120,000 to $192,000. The specific salary offered for this or any given role will take into account a number of factors including but not limited to job location, scope of role, qualifications, complexity/specialization/scarcity of talent, experience, education, and employer budget.  At Swiss Re, we take a "total compensation approach" when making compensation decisions. This means that we consider all components of compensation in their totality (such as base pay, short-and long-term incentives, and benefits offered), in setting individual compensation.