Engineering Manager, Spark
$185-200k
+ Equity
More information about location
Helping Medicare Brokers build the insurance business of their dreams.
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Helping Medicare Brokers build the insurance business of their dreams.
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$185-200k
+ Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
We’re Spark, a mission-driven company helping independent Medicare brokers build the insurance business of their dreams.
Role
Who you are
- 5-8+ years in full stack software engineering in a startup environment
- Strong technical foundation in developing software with Python and Django or similar
- Experience architecting and owning production systems and complex frameworks
- Experience using javascript frameworks such as Vue or React
- 1+ years in leading engineering teams in a management capacity
- Player/coach leadership style, balancing hands-on work with team management
- Experience hiring, growing and managing software engineers
- Ability to collaborate directly with product, design, data and cross-functional stakeholders
- Ability to understand complex business problems and scope and develop elegant technical solutions
- Strong project management, planning and prioritization skills with a focus on delivery
- Strong communication skills
What the job involves
- Spark is looking to bring on an engineering manager to lead the engineers and technical development within the scalability squad
- As we’ve continued to grow, we identified that one of our core challenges is figuring out how to offer our top-tier services and tech platform while doubling our agent base every year
- As a leader of this squad, you will build tech to optimize both internal and agent workflows while also tackling technical problems that ensure the quality of our platform
- In this role, you will be involved in all aspects of engineering within the scalability squad
- You will work directly with product and design to understand existing services and workflows and find opportunities to optimize them
- You will manage and guide software engineers to architect and implement full stack solutions and you will work with engineering leaders to understand and build upon our technical stack to ensure quality and performance
- Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you will collaborate closely with leaders throughout the tech org to ensure that our product development is in line with our business goals
- Build and guide the development of new product features focused on scaling our business
- Architect and design elegant technical solutions with a focus on impact
- Review code and specs and guide the technical direction of the team
- Support the development and prioritization of our tech infrastructure roadmap
- Provide mentorship and career coaching to direct reports, meeting individuals where they are
- Balance hands-on work with higher level technical guidance
- Coordinate with product to drive planning, prioritization, and execution of the Scalability roadmap
- Sequence and scope projects to align with business goals
- Manage team processes and productivity to ensure alignment and timely delivery of projects
- Our current software engineering stack is Python, Django, Celery, Vue, Redis, and Postgres
- We deploy our stack on AWS and use modern development tools for version control, continuous deployment, testing and observability
- This role will be expected to manage 3 engineering team members in 2025
Our take
Medicare is the national health insurance package for US citizens over the age of 65, with most people that seek to enrol in a plan making use of brokers to help them evaluate and select options. Spark is a technology company and “concierge” service that partners with independent Medicare brokers and provides a platform that helps them navigate and build retirement benefit packages for customers.
Handling the marketing, sales support, back office, and compliance requirements of Medicare brokering, Spark bridges the gap between insurance agents and their customers. The company already has partnerships with more than 100 leading Medicare agencies that represent over 3400 brokers, a good starting point from which to grow.
Agetech is a growing market, due to an aging population and longer lifespans, and Spark has benefitted from an increased demand and interest in Medicare brokering. Highlighting this is its 2024 raise of a $25 million Series B funding round that will support its future growth and product development.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
52% female employees
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2024
$25m
SERIES B
Jan 2023
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $53.6m
Company benefits
- Paid holidays - Everyone needs a healthy, happy, and productive life. This means you'll need time to rest & recover without restrictive holiday limits
- Flexible, remote working - We want you to work when and where you're most productive, whether you’re an early bird or a night owl
- Medical & dental benefits - Enjoy the best medical, dental and optical coverage money can buy. We've got you and your family covered for all eventualities
- Meaningful equity - You’ll be contributing to the team's success, so you deserve to share in it. Everyone in our team gets a meaningful equity allocation
- Top of the line equipment - We’ll set you up with the right tools to do your best work—starting with a MacBook Pro, 4K monitors, & the right software to get the job done
- A team that cares - You’ll be joining a team of smart, capable, helpful people that want you to win, our clients to be wowed, and our business to grow
Company values
- TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED - We serve partners and clients with unique needs and backgrounds. Our team's empathy reflects that diversity
- STRIVE FOR EXCELLENCE - We are ambitious, self-reflective and committed to growth
- EXPLICIT ACCOUNTABILITY, BROAD RESPONSIBILITY - We clearly identify ownership, anticipate the needs of our teammates, and reward proactive initiative
- SUCCEED AS A TEAM - We celebrate wins, small and large, and recognize that success is a team effort
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
James Jiang
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Co-Founder at Roster, Analyst at Night Owl Capital and part of the Restraucturing and Reorganisation Team at The Blackstone Group.
Byron Edwards
(Co-Founder)Previously Venture General Manager at Create, MBA Venture Fellow at AlleyCorp, Chief of Staff for the CFO at WeWork and an Associate at the Boston Consulting Group.
Alex Zhang
(Co-Founder)Previously Head of Product at Cedar. Also worked on Product Custody and Training at Betterment and was a Product Manager at AppNexus.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Spark
- At Spark, we are committed to hiring the best team to serve our clients regardless of their background. We need diverse perspectives to reflect the diversity of our problems and the population we serve. We look to hire people from a variety of backgrounds, including, but not limited to, race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, disability, and veteran status.
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