Root is on a mission to unbreak insurance by creating experiences people love at prices they can’t believe. We believe that investing in world-class technology will facilitate a new class of insurance products, driving a massive positive impact on the hundreds of millions of drivers who carry auto insurance in the US. Root’s Engineering team is committed to building a flexible platform on which our product designers and quantitative scientists can quickly test ideas, deploy them into production, and iterate, with the ultimate objective of a delightful customer experience coupled with effective risk management.
The Opportunity
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team to drive marketing operations, finance, analytics, and data science enablement at Root. In this role, you will be responsible for guiding complex technical implementations with engineers on your team or aligned to your domain, supporting marketing and data science workflows and delivery, and working with a broad set of stakeholders to define the strategy and overall roadmap for the domain. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will help us make decisions and deliver software with lasting effects on the order of quarters and years.
At Root we’ve built an end-to-end marketing solution with multiple data collection tools, scoring pipelines, and analytics interfaces. Our data scientists and marketing teams leverage this system to build marketing solutions across a wide array of channels. We’re looking to increase our capabilities in this space. Your role is to achieve platform level tooling to allow faster onboarding of data sources, integrate data with partners, create faster experimentation cycles, and build the analytics and data science data infrastructure to enable more rapid decision loops.
Root is a technology company revolutionizing personal insurance with a pricing model based upon fairness and a modern customer experience. Using the power of telematics, Root offers customers auto insurance based on how they drive, not based solely on their demographics. With its technology-forward products, Root is working to fundamentally change an industry for the better.
Salary Range: $136,500 - $160,000 (Eligible for Competitive Bonus & Equity Offering)
Root is a “work where it works best” company. This means we will support you working in whatever Remote Location that works best for you across the US.
How You Will Make an Impact
- Partner with Marketing, Product, Data Science, Analytics, and experts in the Insurance group to set the strategy for the quarters to come.
- Identify and socialize important technical initiatives that increase the effectiveness of our products, systems, and teams.
- Coach and guide engineers on your team in planning experiments and projects that align with our strategic objectives.
- Contribute code each development cycle to advance the impact of the team.
- Lead by example in incident response ensuring we take action to continuously improve the resiliency of our systems.
- Coordinate with Staff Engineers across the organization to establish and evangelize standards and best practices.
What You Will Need to Succeed
- 4+ years as a software engineer
- Expertise in Python, Terraform, SQL, Spark, Airflow, and dbt
- Expertise in Cloud Architecture - AWS Preferred
- Expertise in Machine Learning Operations (Preferred)
- Expertise in Data Driven Marketing (Preferred)
- Proven leadership of projects involving multiple teams across functional domains
- Excellent communication skills both with engineering colleagues and senior business leaders
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Skills Required
- 4+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Expertise in Python, Terraform, SQL, Spark, Airflow, and dbt
- Expertise in cloud architecture
- AWS experience
- Expertise in Machine Learning Operations
- Expertise in data-driven marketing
- Proven leadership of projects involving multiple teams across functional domains
- Excellent communication skills with engineering colleagues and senior business leaders
Root Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Root and has not been reviewed or approved by Root.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible paid time off—often described as permissive or unlimited—and paid holidays are prominent parts of the package. Time off is frequently positioned as a strong element of the offering.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan is offered, with a company contribution or match noted after eligibility is met. Retirement offerings are presented as a dependable component of total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is explicitly included and promoted alongside flexible PTO. Family-oriented leave stands out as a meaningful benefit within the overall program.
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What We Do
At Root, we’re doing things differently. We’re reimagining the services people need so that they serve them better. And we’re doing it by using data, technology, and rapid innovation to create products and experiences that are fair, easy, personal, and affordable. We’ve partnered with Carvana in a partnership that brings an industry-leading, seamless insurance process to the online car buying experience. The launch of Carvana Insurance Built with Root delivers an elevated customer experience made possible through a deep integration that pre-fills key customer information so that a customer can skip data entry and jump directly to evaluating quotes and customizing coverage. This fully embedded product experience—from quote to payment—happens entirely within the Carvana checkout process. Teams from both Carvana and Root have worked for months to build this bold technology platform. An early iteration involved 24 screens in the customer experience flow—that experience is now just three straightforward steps.
Why Work With Us
Our success is because of the hard work, ingenuity, and exceptional performance of our team. People come to Root because they know they can make an impact in their role, the company, and the industry. We’re passionate and curious self-starters, building a top-notch customer experience. Sound like something you’d like to be a part of?
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