Engineering Manager/Senior Engineering manager

About Company:

ACKO General Insurance: Acko is India’s first online-only insurance company focused on independent general insurance with its entire operations offered through the digital platform. Being India’s first online-only insurtech player Acko plans to launch low-cost, small-ticket insurance products based on data analytics. Acko plans to create products and deliver opportunities in areas where there are gaps such as personalized insurance products based on user consumption behaviors. Distribution will be key for Acko as it competes with the large insurers which have massive reach. Acko will bring out multiple product lines, offer bespoke pricing and products catering to specific segments and create products for the internet economy. Low cost products for the rural sector will also be key over a period of time, delivered via technology. Website: https://www.acko.com/">https://www.acko.com/  

We are a Series C funded company and backed by a marquee set of investors like Mr. Binny Bansal, Amazon, Accel, SAIF, Catamaran etc. Our total funding till date is $143 Million. 

ounding Team:   

Varun Dua, Founder and CEO
Amit Upadhay, CTO (Ex- BrowserStack, CoverFox, Alumni IIT Bombay)
Deepak Angrula, VP Engineering (Ex-CoverFox, Alumni IIT Bombay)
Vaibhav Shah, VP Engineering (Ex-Tesco, Ola , Alumni IIT Bombay)

Job Description:

Here’s what you'll do:

•  Lead and mentor a team of 6-10 talented engineers.
•  Develop, test, and deploy features across the entire stack alongside your teammates.
•  Responsible for hiring, mentoring and development of our team of engineers to grow a

high-performance engineering organization.

•  Collaborate with product & technology teams to deliver major initiatives that drive our

customer growth.

•  Guide engineering technical strategy and roadmaps.
•  Commitment to high code quality and delivery requirements.

Here's what we're looking for :

•  Minimally 8 years of work experience on large-scale and high-traffic projects, preferably in consumer-focused product startups.
•  Minimally 2 years of hands-on technical leadership or people management.
•  Hands on experience working with Web Back-end.
•  Strong hands on coding, design, and architectural skills.
•  Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change: excited about pushing out lots of code

quickly and constantly iterating.

•  Experience with hiring and building self-sustaining teams.
•  Thorough and methodical: you enjoy working with data and using it to make informed business decisions.
•  Empathetic and user-focused: you care deeply about the product experience, you understand users’ motivations and frustrations, and you genuinely want to help them.
•  Empathetic and employee-focused: you care deeply about the people in your team,helping them to achieve their professional goals, and enabling them to do the best work of their lives.