Location: Kfar Saba, Israel (hybrid)
Next Insurance, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Palo Alto, is an insurtech company offering digital insurance solutions tailored to small businesses across the U.S. By leveraging AI and machine learning, the company provides customized policies for sectors such as general liability, professional liability, and commercial auto insurance. Business owners can easily receive quotes and purchase coverage through the platform online.
To date, Next Insurance has raised over $1.1 billion in funding, including a $265 million strategic round in November 2023, led by Allstate and Allianz X. This funding is intended to accelerate the company's path to profitability and expansion. A strategic partnership with Allstate enables Next Insurance to develop new commercial auto products and extend its offerings to Allstate’s customer base.
Serving more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide, Next Insurance employs around 700 people, with offices in Palo Alto, Waltham, Rochester, Israel, and some remote roles.
We’re looking for a Full Stack Engineering Team Lead to join our dynamic and results-oriented Distribution Channels Engineering Group. In this pivotal role, you will lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of our web and marketing tools and infrastructure. You will implement SEO strategies, build tools for SEM campaigns to drive targeted traffic, and optimize the customer lifecycle journey with custom tracking.
You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and leverage the latest technologies to ensure our website remains efficient and user-friendly and contributes to business growth. Additionally, you will mentor fellow software engineers and serve as a focal point for professional knowledge.
Your role will also involve working closely with business stakeholders, including product and business owners, to ensure our solutions align with business objectives and drive impactful results.
What We Need:
- Experience with Remote Stakeholders: Extensive experience collaborating with remote business stakeholders (Product, Business Owners, Marketing), effectively managing their needs, and aligning data solutions to support critical business objectives.
- Team Leadership: Demonstrated track record of successfully leading teams of 4+ engineers, showcasing the ability to attract, inspire, and motivate talented individuals.
- Technical Expertise: Proven experience (6+ years) in a full stack high-scale production web environment, with a robust understanding of design and architecture, testing, and development principles.
- Hands-on Proficiency: Proficiency with developing engineering tools and technologies, including React or any other modern JS framework, JS/HTML/CSS3/Git, SDK + API integrations, and other relevant frameworks (WordPress on PHP - advantage).
- SEO and SEM Knowledge: Familiarity with SEO strategies, SEM tools (like GTM), and optimizing the customer lifecycle journey (Exponea).
- Strong Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills that help build trust, resolve conflicts, and provide feedback.
- Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. (Advantage)
What You’ll Do:
- Deliver Impactful Features: Ship features and capabilities significantly enhance our direct customer experience.
- Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work closely with product managers and engineering leads to achieve business goals and ensure alignment between engineering initiatives and business objectives.
- Lead and Mentor: Lead and mentor a team of passionate and talented SW engineers. Foster their growth and development by managing their career development through coaching, mentoring, continuous performance feedback, and collaborating on objectives. Provide a clear path for progression through personal development plans.
- Technical Domain Ownership: Own the technical domain and stack. Drive the adoption of modern data engineering practices and technologies within the team. Conduct code and architecture design reviews to balance features, technical debt, and the roadmap. Ensure efficiency, quality, and system health.
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 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. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
One of our core values is 'Play as a Team'; this means making sure everyone has an equal chance to participate and make a difference. We win by playing together. Next Insurance is an equal opportunity employer and prioritizes building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants of any type and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, genetic information or characteristic, gender identity and expression, veteran status, or other non-job-related characteristics or other prohibited grounds specified in applicable federal, state, and local laws. Next's policy is to comply with all applicable laws related to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity and will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
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What We Do
The needs of business owners have significantly changed over the past decade, the insurance industry hasn’t. When you’re running your own business, you’re placing a huge bet on yourself. Your ideas, your passion, your blood, sweat and tears define your success. Next Insurance was created to give your business the coverage it deserves. Simple, affordable and tailored. So no matter what you do, no matter how you define success, we’re right there, next to you. Behind our groundbreaking AI-based technology there are hundreds of us. Data scientists, insurance advisors, product managers, designers & more. We are passionate about helping businesses achieve their goals & are committed to serve the needs of business owners. Even our three founders started their path as small business owners so they have been there and are committed to supporting the journey of your business.
Why Work With Us
Next Insurance is looking for explorers who are filled with curiosity, have the desire to travel the unbeaten path, and realize new heights in providing small business owners with the peace of mind to run their businesses. If you move fast, customer-focused, and willing to challenge the status quo, Next Insurance might just be your next journey.
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