Intrepid Direct Insurance (IDI) is a rapidly growing direct to consumer Property and Casualty insurance company. A member of the W. R. Berkley Corporation, a fortune 500 company, rated A+ (Superior) by A.M. Best, Intrepid Direct’s vision is to make life better for business. The insurance industry has not evolved with innovation like other major industries. We’re here to change that. We are making life better for our customers, shareholders, and our team members by leveraging data and technology as insurance experts for our targeted customers. You will be part of a highly collaborative team of talented and focused professionals. Join a group that enjoys working together, trusts each other, and takes pride in our hard-earned success.

 

 

https://intrepiddirect.com/

 

The Company is an equal employment opportunity employer.

Intrepid Direct is looking for an innovative Software Engineering Team Lead to join our growing team. This position will help with automating the “behind the scenes” aspects of insurance, so that our clients have a modern and seamless experience with our services. Expect a mix of technical hands-on deliverables, mentoring, and leading a small matrixed team of talent engineers and business analysts. The Lead will work closely with engineering leadership, architects, engineers, and key stakeholders in the company to efficiently deliver solutions that help Intrepid scale and better meet the needs of our customers. This person should lead by example and foster a culture of trust, collaboration, and transparency.

 

Key functions include but are not limited to:

• Provide day-to-day direction and support for the team.
• Facilitate planning and estimation for work items assigned to the team.
• Be passionate about incremental improvement and team efficiency.
  • Establish team quality metrics.
  • Monitor and report team KPIs for work cycle times and flow.
  • Mentor-first mentality with team code and design reviews.
• Provide architectural and design review with team based on established shop standards and industry best practices.
• Actively monitor code and commits for drift from standards, anti-patterns, and overall churn.
• Identify manual processes within team and help automate and solve for those.
• Inefficiencies to reduce maintenance costs or better meet needs of the business.
• Identify and prioritize technical debt with engineering leadership.
  • Integrate plans to address tech debt with on-going development tasks.
• Foster healthy code reviews.
• Resiliently motivate team and promote idea meritocracy at all levels of decision-making.
• Possess an automation and scalability mindset when determining solution direction and understand the tradeoffs that come with both.
• Provide direct feedback on success and failures with the team.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• 6+ years of direct work experience with contributions in all aspects of the engineering process.
• Experience with mentoring junior to senior level Software Engineers.
• Strong familiarity with development best practices in JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, and .NET environment.
• Demonstrate experience with designing solution software from idea to implementation.
• Proven experience as a full-stack engineer.
• In-depth knowledge of SQL and experience using an ORM (EF or Dapper).
• Experience developing public-facing, high availability web applications.
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Proven experience with creating and maintaining meaningful integration and unit tests.
• Ability to be a team player and to motivate the team.
• Ability to document, design, and develop technical solutions to solve business problems.
• Ability to present and explain technical ideas to non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to write testable code.
• Self-motivated and direct, with ability to plan and prioritize work.
• Assumes other tasks and duties as assigned by management.
• Angular and TypeScript preferred.
• Experience troubleshooting multi-tier applications with micro services.
• Professional experience with automation and integration testing.
• DevOps experience (TeamCity, BitBucket, and OctopusDeploy).
• CI/CD experience.
• Experience with a Kanban workflow.

This role is based in our Overland Park, KS office. It is a full-time, in-office role.

We do not accept unsolicited resumes from third party recruiting agencies or firms.

The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment.

Sponsorship not Offered for this Role