Position Summary
Hexure is a leading services provider of Sales Automation solutions for top Life Insurance and Annuities companies throughout the United States, providing custom offerings and SaaS solutions for the entire sales lifecycle of Quoting to Application and Signature. In 2024, we were named “Best Point of Sale Company” in 8th Annual FinTech Breakthrough Awards Program.
We are looking for a stellar Engineering Manager to lead teams of up to 15 C# developers responsible for implementing actuarial calculations for our Life and Annuities clients. You will be directly responsible for the delivery of client actuarial calc requests, partnering with our Client Delivery Services organization, Business Analysts, Project/Program Managers to implement client requirements down to the penny, maintain a robust, bulletproof, scalable calculation engine platform, and foresee and drive the next generation of architectural direction for the calc-engine platform to help usher in a new era of client acquisition and growth.
About Us
Join a team where we encourage creativity and innovation, champion teamwork and are committed to being the best. In this environment we strive to provide our clients best-in-class solutions that transform business processes and empower sales across all insurance, retirement and investment products.
Hexure, started with a simple goal: transform the insurance and financial services industry through powerful end-to-end sales solutions. For more than 25 years, carriers and distributors have depended on our commitment to innovation, speed to market delivery and deep domain expertise. Our solutions have been implemented within industry-leading insurance carriers and distribution firms. And our track record of empowering client success speaks for itself.
Together as a team, we strive to provide our clients best-in-class solutions that transform business processes and empower sales across all insurance, retirement and investment products. We endeavor to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better solutions for our clients.
Why you’ll love working here:
- Generous benefit packages - We offer our employees competitive health insurance options, including medical, dental, and vision plans, as well as long term and short-term disability insurance.
- Pre-tax savings programs including flexible spending accounts, and a 401K that is competitively matched
- Lifestyle Spending Account. This provides an employee the flexibility to spend benefit dollars on the things that matter most to them.
- Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO). Work-life balance is a key part of our company culture here at Hexure, and we know that our employees do their best work when they can take the time they need to rest and recharge.
- Office Closures – Inclusion and Diversity are integral to enhancing our culture. In support of this, we offer 6 companywide office closures and encourage all employees to use flexible PTO to celebrate religious or cultural holidays, employee birthdays, or other state or federal holidays that bring personal meaning.
- In addition to all the standard PTO options, Hexure proudly offers a generous and progressive paid Modern Family Leave policy.
- Professional Development - Hexure supports you and your professional development with a LinkedIn learning account.
- We also have employee anniversary perks, health, and wellness programs, and much more!
- Most benefits are effective on date of hire!
Qualifications
The ideal candidate has:
- 10+ years in Software Development on C#/.NET and similar platforms
- 5-7+ years leading and/or directly managing teams of 10-15 developers
- Robust understanding of SDLC, Agile development practices, as well as Functional and Automation Testing
- Outstanding technical skills, across C#/.NET programming, on-prem vs cloud-based architectures (Azure experience preferred), source code control (Git and/or TFS preferred), Jira, SQL, Excel, automation frameworks
- Experience developing and leading development teams in a Client Services / Consulting model
- Extensive experience in Insurance Industry (InsurTech), and/or broader FinTech sector
- Understands the nuances of financial applications and the high expectations for quality, reliability, and accuracy that accompany them
- Experience with SaaS platforms and decomposing legacy applications to services / microservices models
- Outstanding expertise in the cutting edge of next-generation software engineering techniques for application architecture, version management, configuration-management, and code generation that allow rapidly prototyping, developing and scaling thousands of client-specific actuarial requirements in a maintainable way
- Experience leading in a remote environment, and leading teams with a mix of new and tenured team members
Key Skills and Behaviors for this Role
- Outstanding execution, able to manage 10's of concurrent projects, handle escalations, appropriately delegate, find creative solutions to challenging problems, negotiate win-win compromises, and get the job done on time with exceptional quality.
- Can think and act both extremely broadly and extremely detailed, able to dive in and lead by example, yet also has a big picture vision and strategy for the team and the platform and is able to foster exceptional connectivity between the high-level company strategy and the daily activities and challenges of troops on the ground.
- Exceptionally motivational servant-leader who develops the strong respect and trust of their team, peers, partners and leadership, and is able to articulate strategy, vision, challenges, up and down the organization and leadership chain.
- Drives relentlessly for continuous improvement of team, career development, skills, performance expectations, goals and outcomes, fosters a culture of innovation and learning.
- Recruits, interviews and hires exceptional industry talent.
- Drives a culture of accountability and innovation to meet business objectives and goals.
- Resolves issues, risks and barriers to development and testing within and across pods – managing code conflicts, code merges, release readiness, test coverage and metrics working closely with the Product Owner.
- Works with partner team in India to ensure constant communication to help mutually drive strategy, goals and to achieve targets for utilization and % billing.
- Helps prioritize backlogs and grooming, priorities and dependencies within and across teams, mentorship to understand the requirements and meeting the stated objectives.
- Manages stakeholder relationships across the interacting entities with the pod.
- Drives extremely high standards of quality and delivery, establishing mature delivery metrics for code quality, automation, testing, observability, reliability, TTM / MTTD / MTTR production bugs, definition of done.
Core Competencies
- Interpersonal Skills: Now more than ever, the ability to build relationships with team members and clients is pivotal to the success of our organization. We are looking for candidates who can communicate effectively and help cultivate an agile environment of collaboration and inclusion.
- Personal Capabilities: We believe that the way people manage themselves and their relationships with others in the workplace is critical to the success of our organization. We are looking for candidates that effectively put their knowledge, values, and skills into practice.
- Focus on Results: As a company that values innovation, we are looking for candidates who will help drive efforts to build commitment for individual and team objectives, as well as anticipate and respond to issues and opportunities that could affect the organization.
- Customer Advocacy: Our purpose is to empower our clients to deliver customer-centric sales experiences, accelerate speed to market, improve in-good-order sales and meet regulatory requirements. This requires a focus on our customer‘s satisfaction. We are looking for candidates who can understand the needs and concerns of our clients and address them quickly and expertly.
Where We See This Role Going:
We are committed to being a driving force in the innovation of the insurance market and that means that we help our employees stay on top of current trends and technologies, and progress within our company. This position can move into the following roles.
Expected hours of Work:
This is a full-time position with regular office hours Monday through Friday. This position may work with the India office a few days a week and will require an earlier start to the day around 6:30MT. This position may require after work hours and occasional weekends, depending on work demands.
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee incumbent in this position. Employee will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties as requested.
A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the employee must possess the skills, aptitudes and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills or abilities.
This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $120,000.00 - $135,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: Remote
