Engineering Manager, Detection Team

Shift Technology enables the world's leading insurance organizations to make better decisions with the power of AI. From underwriting risk detection to claims decisioning and financial crime detection, our globally-distributed team solves the most difficult challenges facing insurers today.

Founded in France in 2014, the company now serves over 115 global customers-including 6 of the top 10 U.S. P&C insurers and 4 of the top 10 global P&C insurers-and has processed well over 2.6 billion claims. Our culture is built on innovation, trust, and a drive to transform the insurance industry by imagining and inventing solutions that impact insurers and their customers. We come from more than 40 different countries and cultures to share a common purpose and mission as One Team.
- The detection team lies at the core of the value we offer to our customers. The team is responsible for building the framework that allows our data scientists to develop the models which produce the inference over the data in the insurance domain. If you are excited by the challenges of processing over big data and leading the team responsible for building optimized data query and processing engines, this is the right place for you_
- **Manage** your squad within the data organization
- **Mentor** and **grow** the software engineers in your squad
- Participate in code reviews frequently and **provide technical direction** to the engineers
- Drive **technical projects** and provide **leadership** in an innovative and fast paced environment
- Be **responsible** for the planning, execution and delivery of complex technical products
- **Scale **the squad, processes and architecture that propels business growth.
- Be **data driven **and build the right frameworks within the organization to measure and deliver results against the objectives
- Collaborate with product management to ensure alignment between product and technical strategy

**YOUR TOOLKIT**
- We work with modern technologies and always encourage our team to explore what's new in the market._

Our main tools are:

- **C#, Python **in the Backend
- **React/ Redux **(es6) and** Less **in the Frontend
- **SQL Server** and **Elasticsearch** in the data layer
- A continuous delivery pipeline that uses **Git**, **Nunit**, **Teamcity** and **Octopus Deploy**

**WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR**
- You have a minimum** 2 years** of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience as a **manager of software engineers**:

- **Managing managers is a plus but not a requirement**:

- You have experience with **l**arge scale system design**:

- You have experience working with **agile methodologies**:

- You have **cross functional collaboration skills**:

- You have experience in hiring software engineers
- You are well versed in devops methodologies and tools
- You are **proactive** and take ownership of your work
- You often come up with new ideas to solve complex problems, and know how to get your teammates behind them
- You want your work to have an impact**:rather than a cog, you see yourself as the engine**:

- You are comfortable dealing with the pressure of **delivering an excellent service** to our customers
- You can communicate clearly in **English**

**Recruitment process**
- A fit call with head of engineering or the CTO
- 4 interviews that test you on our leadership principles around being technical, coach and master of execution
- Final interview with head of engineering or CTO

**_At Shift we strive to be a diverse and inclusive workforce. We hire and trust people without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, age, national or ethnic origin, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other non-merit criteria._**:
**_Shift Technology does not accept unsolicited CVs from recruiters or employment agencies in response to the Shift Technology Careers page or a Shift Technology social media post. Any unsolicited CVs, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Shift Technology._**: