Senior Engineering Manager, Steadily
$210-241.5k
Total compensation around $300,000+
Landlord insurance for rental property owners
Posted today
Landlord insurance for rental property owners
101-200 employees
Posted today
$210-241.5k
Total compensation around $300,000+
101-200 employees
Company mission
To bring fast, affordable landlord insurance to rental property owners.
Role
Who you are
- Experienced: This isn't your first rodeo leading high-performing engineering teams. While there's no specific minimum number of years, we expect you to confidently navigate complex technical landscapes, mentor senior engineers, and scale teams
- Builder: You're passionate about shaping the product through engineering leadership. You'll drive architectural vision, empower your team to build innovative solutions, and foster an environment where engineers contribute thoughtfully to the user experience, rather than just executing pre-defined specs
- Pragmatic: You prioritize impact and swift delivery. You'll balance team velocity with technical excellence, making thoughtful trade-offs to solve problems effectively. You know when to leverage off-the-shelf solutions and when a custom approach is essential, and you're ready to guide your team in iteratively building and deploying solutions that move the needle
- Specific Languages: We don't really care if you've worked in our stack before as long as you're happy to learn it. If you're sharp enough to be on this team, you're sharp enough to learn any language or framework quickly
What the job involves
- We're hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and scale our engineering organization.
- In this pivotal role, you'll drive technical excellence, nurture team growth, and ensure efficient product delivery.
- You'll report directly to our CTO and work closely with existing engineering leadership to shape the future of our department
- Our engineering team leans senior, with most members having over 10 years of experience at high-growth companies in Austin.
- Partner with product to design self-serve customer experiences, defining the technical direction and leading your team to deliver measurable outcomes
- Evaluate cutting-edge vendors for detailed property analytics, collaborating with data science to identify early indicators of property conditions and risks
- Guide and coach experienced engineers, helping them identify their strengths and charting paths for continued growth and impact
- People Management & Team Leadership
- Build and Grow Teams: Actively participate in the hiring, onboarding, and retention of exceptional engineering talent
- Mentorship & Development: Coach, mentor, and foster the career growth of individual engineers through regular one-on-one meetings, constructive feedback, and performance development plans
- Team Health & Culture: Cultivate a collaborative team environment where engineers feel empowered to take ownership and contribute their best work
- Feedback Culture: Champion a culture of open and direct feedback, both positive and constructive, to drive continuous improvement and trust within the team
- Technical Leadership & Excellence
- Architectural Guidance: Guide architectural decisions and drive system-level thinking to ensure the scalability, resilience, and maintainability of our software systems
- Technical Vision: Define and champion the technical vision and strategy for your domain, ensuring alignment with overall company goals
- Code Quality & Standards: Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in code quality, engineering best practices, and operational excellence
- Technical Debt Management: Manage technical debt, balancing long-term technical vision with short-term deliverables
- Project & Delivery Oversight
- Roadmap & Strategy: Partner with product, engineering, and coss-functional teams to define roadmaps, set the direction, and drive customer and business impact for your team's products and features
- Execution & Delivery: Oversee the prioritization, planning, execution, and delivery of engineering projects and features with an emphasis on small iterations
- Operational Excellence: Ensure operational excellence, including support, on-call rotations, deployments, and incident management, embracing a "you build it, you run it" philosophy
- Data analysis: Use data to drive decision making for evaluating features and success, prioritization, and identifying future opportunities
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Stakeholder Partnership: Collaborate extensively with Product Managers, Insurance Product, Sales, Marketing, Data Science, and other engineering teams to align priorities, ensure visibility of product and engineering initiatives, and incorporate the company’s priorities
- Strategic Alignment: Work with senior leadership to understand the overall business direction, company metrics, provide technical insights, and contribute to strategic decision-making
Our take
Steadily is a platform that caters to landlords, offering them a convenient and efficient way to explore and purchase insurance products for their residential properties. By utilizing a digital approach, the company ensures that landlords have access to the most competitive rate available on the market, simplifying the insurance acquisition process.
Having served over 18 million individual rental property owners, Steadily has earned a strong reputation for delivering fast, user-friendly, and affordable landlord insurance solutions. One of its standout features is the automation of certain data entry functions during the insurance quote application, making the experience burdensome for applicants and enabling them to receive quotes in a matter of minutes.
In an industry that has been slower to evolve, Steadily has addressed the growing demand for a more modern experience for insurers. The company's commitment to innovation is further supported by recent funding which has positioned it to expand its offerings and develop new products and services.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
60% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2025
$30m
SERIES C
Jul 2023
$28.5m
SERIES B
Total funding: $90.1m
Company benefits
- Equity in the company
- Employer healthcare contribution
- 401K
- Flexible Time Off
- Health (HSA or FSA), vision, and dental insurance
- Equipment provided
- Continued education opportunities
Company HQ
Congress Avenue Historic District, Austin, TX
Leadership
Datha Santomieri
(COO)Previously worked as a Regional Insurance Operations Leader at Brown & Brown Insurance and as a Director of Project Management at Arrowhead General Insurance Agency.
Darren Nix
(CEO)Previously founded Silver Financial and Interviewed. Also worked as a Consultant at McKinsey & Co and as a Senior GM at Indeed.
David Tulig
(CTO)Graduated from the University of Texas with a BS in Computer Science. Previously worked at Indeed in multiple roles, including Senior Engineering Manager and Director of Engineering.
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