Developer Experience Team Lead, Next Insurance
$127-171k
3 days a week in office (Waltham, MA)
Online-based insurance broker for SMBs
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Online-based insurance broker for SMBs
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$127-171k
3 days a week in office (Waltham, MA)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build a simplified digital insurance experience that better serves small businesses.
Role
Who you are
- B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent
- At least 3 years of experience as a Backend team lead
- At least 5 years of experience as a Backend Developer in a fast-paced cloud oriented organization
- Strategic thinking and ability to prioritize initiatives effectively
- Excellent communication, collaboration and planning skills
- Ability to cultivate deep trust and build long-standing, meaningful relationships with stakeholders to drive cross-functional alignment
- Proven record of initiating, designing, implementing and leading meaningful projects
- Experience improving development processes and a passion for Developer Experience (DevEx)
- A self-driven leader with a deep curiosity to master and implement AI technologies within the SDLC
- Technical understanding in CI/CD, K8S and Infrastructure-as-Code
- Technical understanding in Build tools (Maven/Gradle/nx), testing frameworks, and observability
- Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that some underrepresented people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At ERGO NEXT, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways
What the job involves
- Great developer experience is a major goal for our engineering. At NEXT, we believe that world-class engineering requires a world-class environment
- Our Developer Experience (DevEx) team isn't just about managing servers; we are architects of the development lifecycle
- As the Team Lead for the Developer Experience Team, you will lead a high-performing team of Backend and DevOps engineers dedicated to redefining the developer journey at NEXT
- In this role, you will drive technical excellence, foster the professional growth of your engineers, and serve as a key leader within Platform Engineering. This is a unique opportunity to build and lead a brand-new DevEx team from the ground up, shaping its foundation from day one
- You will work in close partnership with a parallel DevEx team in our Israeli site, collaborating to align strategies and deliver a world-class developer experience across the organization
- Execute our strategy for an Agentic SDLC, leveraging AI to automate and enhance the design-to-deployment lifecycle
- Champion a 'Platform-as-a-Product' mindset, delivering intuitive self-service tools that solve real-world development bottlenecks
- Partner deeply with R&D stakeholders to ensure our platform capabilities stay perfectly aligned with developer needs and business objectives
- Lead and mentor a cross-functional team of Backend and DevOps engineers, fostering an environment of continuous learning and growth
Our take
Next Insurance serves small businesses by making it much simpler to take out an insurance policy without the headache associated with many providers. To begin trading any business needs to have some sort of insurance policy in place, traditional offerings can take weeks, often requiring tedious paperwork.
Next Insurance has opted to use AI, machine learning and transparent language to make the process much simpler, and it can take just five to ten minutes for customers to obtain a package that suits them.
While Next Insurance is facing established insurance companies such as Hiscox and State Farm, its partnership with Amazon Business Prime to insure its members in a move to target traditionally underserved insurance customers and more recently with LegalZoom, to simplify the insurance process, as well as its nearly half a million customers has the company well set to remain major player in the space.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2023
$265m
SERIES G
Mar 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company HQ
Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Guy Goldstein
(Co-Founder & CEO)After 7 years in the Israeli Air Force, they worked at Mercury Interactive for almost 8 years, as well as roles at HP and Check, which they co-founded in 2007. Left this role at Intuit in July 2015 to co-found Next Insurance 6 months later.
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