Engineering Lead

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Salary: $140K - $190K

Kin is revolutionizing the insurance industry by making it smarter, faster, and customer-centric. We leverage intelligent pricing, offer seamless bundling, and simplify every aspect of the insurance experience, from purchase to claims, particularly for underserved markets. Our mission is to empower individuals to protect what matters most, starting with their homes and expanding to all they value, in a world facing climate risks, rising costs, and outdated systems. Our rapid growth, backed by marquee investors, has earned us recognition as: - Built In Chicago's Best Places to Work, Midsize Companies (2021-2025) - Forbes' America's Best Startup Employers (2021- 2024, Ranked #37 in 2024) - Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies - Forbes’ Fintech 50

We are seeking forward-thinking, inspired individuals to join our mission.

The Role

We are looking for a passionate, entrepreneurial, and hands-on Engineering Lead to guide one of our engineering teams. This role requires comfort with geographically distributed teams and a strong understanding of teamwork. You will lead a team of software engineers, spanning both front-end and back-end development, to drive innovation in full-stack product development while continuously improving performance, scalability, and maintainability.

A Day in the Life

• Serve as a hands-on engineering leader and technical expert.
• Mentor and nurture a small team of top engineering talent.
• Collaborate with product management to develop and maintain team roadmaps.
• Drive team innovation and agile delivery of roadmap features with high quality.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code in Ruby, with occasional use of Python and Typescript.
• Lead pair programming sessions and provide mentorship to junior engineers.
• Drive and foster design and architectural tasks.
• Participate in daily stand-ups and weekly retrospectives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members, including Product and PMO.
• Execute consistently, rapidly, and effectively to bring ideas from concept to production and scale.
• Maintain high product availability and ensure quick response to production incidents.
• Represent your team and product line in cross-functional discussions.

Requirements

• Proven track record of shipping large, complex software projects.
• Proficiency in languages such as Ruby, Python, or Typescript.
• Experience with architectural design.
• Ability to articulate the value of technical investments.
• Capacity to operate with some technical guidance.
• Experience mentoring engineers.
• Familiarity with front-end development and modern JavaScript libraries/frameworks (e.g., React, Vue, Angular).
• Comfort in a fast-paced, self-motivated startup environment focused on industry change.
• A fast learner, ready to apply existing knowledge and continue developing.
• Location in Central or Eastern US time zones (CDT & EDT) is strongly preferred.
• Note: At this time, we are unable to sponsor employment visas.

Company Benefits & Perks

• Comprehensive Benefits Program:
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, and Disability Insurance options.
  • Employee Assistance Program.
  • Elective voluntary benefits: accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, legal assistance, and pet insurance.
• Additional Offerings:
  • Competitive salary and equity.
  • 401K with a company match of up to 4%.
  • Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) for exempt employees.
  • 8 company-observed holidays.
  • Paid parental leave program: 100% salary continuation for up to 14 weeks for birthing parents and 8 weeks for non-birthing parents.