Company Introduction

Verikai is an insurance technology company changing the way the industry views risk with true predictive analytics. Our well-established database includes over 5,000 behavior attributes for 250+ million people in the United States and provides deep insight to these individuals’ true health risks. With this data, we help insurance companies improve underwriting precision, speed and efficiency using alternative data and machine learning – and ultimately, we provide consumers and small businesses with greater access to a broader range of insurance products.

Verikai isn’t your typical startup. And we aren’t looking for typical employees. For starters, we are a fully remote organization, meaning your home base can be your sofa, your favorite café, or a (wifi-equipped) cabin in the woods. All you need is your brain and a laptop…and we provide the laptop. We’re looking for people who want to do inspired work for a higher purpose. We are a growing and well-funded tech startup with a great product and even better ideas. If you want to make an immediate impact on the way the insurance industry operates while working in a fun, fast-paced and supportive environment, you’ve come to the right place.

About the role

We are seeking a VP of Technology who is experienced working with a  fast-moving executive team and has strong intellectual curiosity, relevant, demonstrated experience, and the commitment and tenacity to keep pace in a small, start-up team.

The VP of Technology ensures that the product vision is realized through excellence in execution, leading the technology team. 

Responsibilities  

  • Leading the technology team through management and mentorship. 
  • Build, develop, and manages the technology team capable of carrying out initiatives and ensure quality end products. 
  • Contributing to recruitment activities, developing top technology / engineering talent. 
  • Developing standards and procedures to ensure that quality standards are met and consistent.
  • Recommending technological developments and improvements inefficiency.
  • Understand and collaborate on the complete product lifecycle from concept to execution.
  • Recommends new technology and ideas to improve sprints and efficiency.
  • Build and maintain the platform, as well as involvement in all phases of the product cycle.
  • Working with a fast-paced team to develop, test, and maintain web-based applications using modern technologies.
  • Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards. 
  • Package and support deployment of releases.
  • Developing, refining, and tuning integrations between applications.
  • Analyzing and resolving technical and application problems.
  • Working with extraordinarily large datasets and tasked with developing solutions that think systemically about the development challenges in a creative, out-of-the-box way that makes our product better. 
  • Oversee the developer who owns the user experience for the product
  • Collaborate with other stakeholders regularly in product, design, etc 

Skills and Requirements 

  • Strong organizational leadership skills.
  • Extensive experience in working with stakeholders to create hiring strategies to develop quality teams.
  • Experience in recruiting engineers and contributors.
  • Previous working experience in software design and developing customer-orientated platforms.
  • Must be knowledgeable about industry trends, best practices, and change management.
  • Understanding of relational database design with MYSQL -- including concepts of stored procedures, denormalization, and other optimizations
  • Knowledge of AWS including experience with LAMBDA/Node.JS 
  • Knowledge of languages/tools such as Express.js, MySQL, AWS Amplify, npm, Yarn, and Git/BitBucket 
  • Experience with the following languages/tools/practices: Redux, Material-UI React Library, Web Workers, AWS Cognito, AWS Lambda, AWS IAM, Figma, Code Splitting 
  • Strong self-management, with the ability to comfortably identify, set and meet their own priorities as well as manage others 
  • Worked in a startup environment or other fast-paced, small environment with high responsibility and/or small team 
  • Strong intellectual curiosity, relevant, demonstrated experience, and the commitment and tenacity to keep pace in a small, start-up team.  

Perks

  • Salary Range: 220k – 240k base + annual bonus  
  • Employer subsidized health, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k) plan for employee contribution
  • Flexible PTO + 10 generous paid holidays + Thanksgiving and Winter breaks
  • Ego-free, open-door policy
  • Remote First company—you can literally work anywhere with just your laptop and an internet connection
  • Employer-paid meal delivery program via GrubHub
  • Customer-focused, innovative environment
  • Flat organizational structure
  • Team offsites, happy hours, lunch n’ learns

Reports to: Chief Executive Officer 

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