Remote Position
[Remote] Staff Software Engineer II
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Root Inc. is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to serve as a technical leader for one or more teams within a product domain. The role combines team coaching, domain strategy and roadmap planning, strategic coding, technical initiatives, incident response, and organization-wide engineering standards.
Responsibilities
- Co-lead your team with your Engineering Manager, helping to coach, model for and grow the other team members
- Partner with Product, Data Science, Analytics, and experts in the Insurance group to set the strategy for the quarters to come
- Identify and socialize important technical initiatives that increase the effectiveness of our products, systems, and teams
- Contribute code strategically each development cycle to advance the impact of the team
- Lead by example in incident response ensuring we take action to continuously improve the resiliency and monitoring of our systems
- Coordinate with Staff Engineers across the organization to establish and evangelize standards and best practices
Skills
- 7+ years as a software engineer
- 3+ years leading software teams
- Expertise in Ruby on Rails
- Familiarity with Rust
- Proven leadership of projects involving multiple teams across functional domains
- Excellent communication skills both with engineering colleagues and senior business leaders
Benefits
- Eligible for competitive bonus
- Equity offering
- Work where it works best across the US
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