Principal Engineer

Group 1001 is a consumer-centric, technology-driven family of insurance companies on a mission to deliver outstanding value and operational performance by combining financial strength and stability with deep insurance expertise and a can-do culture. Group1001’s culture emphasizes the importance of collaboration, communication, core business focus, risk management, and striving for outcomes. This goal extends to how we hire and onboard our most valuable assets – our employees. Why This Role Matters: We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Engineering Manager to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading and coordinating multiple projects within and across cross-functional teams. Your primary focus will be on developing efficient processes, executing effective strategies, and ensuring the timely completion of projects. As an Engineering Manager, you will play a key role in product development. Collaborating closely with various teams, including product owners and scrum masters, to ensure projects are delivered on schedule and within budget, maintaining a high level of quality and adherence to organizational objectives. If you are a motivated and strategic professional with a passion for driving engineering excellence, we invite you to join our team and contribute to our continued success. How You'll Contribute: - Provide managerial and technical oversight to one or more cross-functional engineering teams, including: - Provide performance coaching and technical coordination - Requirement clarification - Identify development best practices - Validate work accuracy and adherence to compliance controls - Identify training needs and talent development opportunities - Inter and cross-teams dependency coordination - Collaborate with product owners and business stakeholders to gather requirements - Collaborate with scrum master to deliver projects on time and within budget - Participate in release planning meetings What We're Looking For: - Proven work experience as an Engineering Manager or similar role in an Agile environment - Analytical skills for evaluating information carefully and solving complex problems - Effective communication skills for overseeing engineers and working with other management personnel. Effective communications to achieve team and business objectives - Detail-oriented for understanding complex systems and the ability to pay attention to details - Broad technical knowledge across relevant cross-functional tech domains – Front-end (Angular/Typescript), Backend (Kotlin), QA and QA automations Basic Qualifications: - Excellent verbal and written communication skills - Proven track record of delivering fast-paced complex features/products - Ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional, cross-organization teams to assemble project plans, secure commitments on deliverables, and lead the resolution of blocking issues - People management experience, managing engineers - Demonstrated passion for understanding ambiguous, complex problems and driving high-quality, innovative, and robust solutions. - Experience architecting and designing (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) new and existing systems - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent) Preferred Qualifications: - Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment - In-depth hands-on understanding of at least one relevant tech domain – Front-end (Angular/Typescript), Backend (Kotlin), QA and QA automations - Ability to analyze business requirements, write specifications, scope technical requirements, drive solution design across organizational boundaries, manage multiple software development efforts, establish rigorous testing standards and success metrics. - Experience with Deployment and Management software like Gitlab - Experience designing and building customer