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Head of Engineering (reporting to CEO)
CyberCube
United States
Posted on Saturday, June 15, 2024
What we are looking for in the Head of Engineering:
We are looking for an exceptional person and technical leader to join the executive team of our rapidly growing Series C InsureTech business in one of our most important leadership positions.
The right candidate will be a world-class leader with distinctive experience in inspiring people leadership, building scalable global processes, and providing technical leadership to a data-driven cyber analytics platform that is changing the future of insurance.
Company Background:
CyberCube is a dynamic and growing Series C startup, with over 120 team members and more than $100 million in funding raised. We are dedicated to delivering the most advanced cyber insurance analytics platform, tackling the most complex cyber risk challenges with our cutting-edge analytics.
Our team is a diverse group of experts spanning data science, cybersecurity, software engineering, modeling, and commercial insurance. Together, we develop products for cyber risk aggregation modeling and insurance underwriting, leveraging top-tier threat intelligence from multiple data sources.
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, CyberCube is backed by leading investors including ForgePoint Capital (the largest venture capital fund focused on early-stage cybersecurity investments) and Hudson Structured Capital Management (HSCM).
Engineering background:
CyberCube has grown in the last 6 years from a team of 4 engineers to over 40 engineers split between the San Francisco Bay Area and Tallinn, Estonia.
We have 3 product teams, and 3 platform teams(including SRE, Data Engineering, and Platform services) spread across the US and Estonia.
Our SaaS platform is 100% cloud-native utilizing a broad cross-section of AWS services. We are a platform of SaaS products to our global insurance industry clients with direct API integrations into the environments of our clients and other third parties. With this, our teams have been migrating from a monolithic architecture to standardized microservices that can be used across multiple product use cases.
Location:
Open to locations throughout the US. Being based in our San Francisco or New York office is nice to have.
Executive Leadership:
- Well-rounded business leader with min 3-5 years (ideally 5-10) of executive leadership experience at C/D/E/pre-IPO stage company
- Nice to have:
- Business experience working in a company that provides information services or modeling to enterprises (e.g., financial modeling, credit scoring, economic modeling, weather modeling, risk modeling)
People Leadership:
- An inspiring people leader that is able to attract, retain and excite exceptional engineers
- Ability to lead and mentor a team of engineering leaders, providing strategic guidance and driving change through both advice and action
- Proven experience collaborating with others to develop and achieve organizational goals while supplying expertise and guidance on projects, operations, and systems
- Fit with our cultural values, including collaboration, transparency, intellectual rigor, driving customer outcomes, and commitment to excellence
- Capability to manage a distributed team across the globe
- A strong, decisive self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment
Processes and Technical Leadership:
- Native public cloud engineering experience
- Experience in compute- and data-heavy platform building (petabyte-scale data and building complex multi-source data lakes)
- Experience developing sophisticated B2B SaaS applications
- Experience establishing, communicating, and implementing engineering and development policies, practices, standards, and security measures to ensure effective and consistent operations
- Experience creating scalable processes for growing organizations to increase predictability, efficiency, and effectiveness
- Experience with setting up and overseeing core elements of a high performing engineering organization including design, development, automation, builds, deployment and performance management
- Experience influencing product roadmap
- Nice to have:
- Product management experience
- Integration with technology partners experience
Technologies we're using (experience is a plus)
- A variety of languages (Java, Python, Node.js, JavaScript)
- Cloud - IAAS and PAAS
- Database technologies (MongoDB, MYSQL, ES, SOLR, Cassandra)
- Agile development, continuous delivery, and DevOps
- Large-scale, big data methods and data-driven architectures
- Modern cloud microservices architectures
- Continuous Integration > Continuous Delivery > Release on Demand