Principal Software Engineer / Tech Lead, Trellis
Head of Real-Time Bidding; ML Ops
$300-600k
+ Equity + Bonuses
P&C insurance data services
Open for applications
P&C insurance data services
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$300-600k
+ Equity + Bonuses
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build industry-leading solutions that make insurance easy for everyone, from consumers to partners to insurers.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive Backend Engineering Experience – This role will be nearly entirely focused on API-based customer acquisition, so the technical focus is on our backend. An ability to quickly ramp up on – and exercise best practices in – Python and NodeJS is required
- Experience productionalizing Machine Learning (ML) - You'll need a working familiarity with how to best collect, manage, and govern data, including both raw data as well as intermediate model predictions. You'll need familiarity with how to solve challenges like model versioning, split testing, and alignment of feature engineering between production and model training
- Product/Business Chops – You will have executive-level P&L responsibility. Thus, you will need to be able to bone up on our business, accurately model our product domain, effectively prioritize projects and tickets, and be able to converse about technical ideas and trade-offs from the perspective of a business owner
- Organization – Our team manages an incredibly wide surface area of software. Keeping tabs on everything requires the design and execution of systems and processes
- Motivational and Positive Attitude – As a people and hiring manager on the engineering team, building trust, respect, and rapport with staff, stakeholders, and prospective new hires will be essential
- Comfort with Data – The more comfortable you are with techniques for optimally storing, accessing, analyzing, and predicting data, the more effective you will be able to be in the role. This spans familiarity with how to store data for auditing, transform data for analysis, access and analyze large corpuses cost-efficiently, launch and maintain machine learning in production, scientifically analyze experiments, and more
- A Brisk Pace – We don’t need a “pre-seed” sprinter/prototyper, but we also can’t operate like FAANG molasses. We need a strong context switcher who can quickly ramp up on new types of problems, think on their feet, exhibit a bias for action, and avoid letting perfect be the enemy of the good
What the job involves
- Reporting directly to the CEO, the Principal Software Engineer / Tech Lead, Head of Real-Time Bidding will be directly responsible to:
- Maximize ROI on >$100 million per year of programmatic marketing spend – About $2 billion per year of insurance shopping leads are programmatically auctioned every year in the US. We expect to spend over $100 million next year on these API-based, real-time auctions
- Additionally, traditional digital media and other marketing channels offer additional programmatic customer acquisition opportunities
- This position will own and grow our efforts to programmatically bid and acquire insurance shoppers, ensuring maximum ROI
- Smarter and Smarter Customer Acquisition
- Increasingly intelligent, enabling increased precision, win rates and ROI/ROAS
- Expansion to new marketing platforms and channels (e.g. video advertising!)
- Responsiveness – e.g. fast adaptation to rapid shifts in marketplace supply or demand
- High-Quality Platform
- Low frequency and severity of errors, bugs, and regressions
- Low latency (auctions often timeout in a fraction of a second)
- High availability (outages cost us opportunity)
- Science friendly (we will often need to experiment to test various hypotheses about the market and our audience)
- High-Quality Team
- Hire, motivate, manage, and up-skill 1-2 top-quality Sr. Eng hires
Our take
Changing insurance providers can be a daunting and overwhelming process due to the complexities often involved, resulting in many people sticking to the same provider, even if it doesn't best suit their needs.
Recognizing the difficulties faced by changing insurance providers and the need for better data-driven solutions is Trellis. The company has built an API platform that lets consumers compare insurance policies side-by-side, simplifying a once tricky ordeal. Setting itself apart from competitors, Trellis also partners with digital banks and financial institutions to offer new insurance options to their existing customers.
Due to its innovative approach to the space, Trellis has seen exponential growth since its inception in 2019 and more recently acquired the backing of Amex Ventures. Securing funding from Amex along with a number of other investors, Trellis is now in a prime position to accelerate its offerings and further innovate the insurance market.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2022
$5m
EARLY VC
Jun 2021
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $15m
Company benefits
- Bonuses and equity opportunities
- Unlimited vacation time
- 100% employer-paid insurance for employee, 60% for dependents
- 401K plan
- Annual in-person retreats
Company values
- Speed: We work quickly and pragmatically. We move fast and get things done.
- Extreme Ownership: We fulfill our promises to each other and our customers. We own our responsibilities 110%.
- Craft: We are constantly learning and better ourselves and the way we work.
- Collaboration: We work transparently, solicit feedback, and leave our egos at the door.
- Positivity: We see a cup half-full, focus on the teams potential, and rise to the challenges.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Daniel Demetri
(CEO)Previously co-founded the insurance company, Doma. Also worked as a Product Manager at Google as well as a Product Lead/Head of Product Management at Earnest.
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