Director of Engineering (Platform Intelligence)
Location: Remote
About the Role
Accelerant is seeking an experienced Director of Engineering to lead one of our full stack engineering teams within the Product & Technology group. This role combines people management with strong project management discipline and Agile practices. You will be responsible for developing engineering talent, managing cross team dependencies, and enabling your team to build high quality, impactful SaaS applications.
Core Responsibilities
* Team Development & Mentorship: Invest in your team members by promoting continuous growth, offering guidance and support, and fostering a positive and inclusive work environment.
* Project Planning & Execution: Own end to end project delivery. Define scope, create realistic timelines, identify risks early, break down initiatives into milestones, and track progress against commitments.
* Agile Process Ownership: Serve as the Agile champion for your team. Ensure consistent execution of Scrum ceremonies, track sprint metrics, and refine processes to improve predictability.
* Stakeholder & Dependency Management: Build relationships with business stakeholders, Product Management, Design, and partner engineering teams. Communicate status, manage expectations, flag risks early, and coordinate across teams to prevent blockers.
* Technical Roadmap Ownership: Partner with the team Architect on technical direction and design decisions. Contribute to quarterly planning and OKR definition. Balance technical debt reduction with feature delivery.
* Engineering & Operational Excellence: Drive engineering best practices and scalable solutions. Own production reliability, lead incident response and post mortems, and improve system stability.
* AI Tooling & Adoption: Champion the adoption of AI tools and practices within the team. Evaluate and implement AI assisted development tools, establish best practices for AI augmented workflows, and drive measurable improvements in developer productivity.
* Performance Management: Monitor and guide the performance of your team members, providing regular feedback and helping each individual reach their career potential.
Technical Requirements
* Full Stack SaaS Understanding: A solid understanding of full stack SaaS applications and best practices is necessary to effectively support and guide teams.
* API Integration Experience: Strong experience consuming external APIs and integrating third party services. Understanding of API contracts, versioning, health monitoring, and production readiness requirements.
* Machine Learning & Data Science Familiarity: Basic understanding of machine learning concepts, model deployment, and inference APIs. Ability to collaborate effectively with Data Science teams on model integration and productionization.
* Data Platform Familiarity: Familiarity with data pipelines and modern data platforms. Experience with Snowflake, data warehousing concepts, or similar technologies is a plus.
* Familiarity with the Stack: Familiarity with our stack, which includes TypeScript (for both frontend and backend), Svelte, Node.js/Nest.js, AWS, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), is preferred, though experience with similar technologies is also valuable.
* Agile Tooling: Proficiency with Agile project management tools such as Jira, including workflow configuration, reporting, and dashboard creation.
Qualifications
* Experience: 5 to 7 years as an engineering manager, ideally leading full stack teams in a SaaS environment. Track record of delivering complex software projects on time.
* Agile Expertise: Deep understanding of Agile principles and Scrum methodology. Scrum Master or similar certification is a plus.
* Cross Team Collaboration: Proven experience working with data teams, whether Data Science, Data Engineering, or Analytics. Ability to bridge technical discussions across different engineering disciplines.
* Operational Mindset: Experience owning production systems, leading incident response, and driving reliability improvements. Comfortable with on call responsibilities and production support.
* Leadership Skills: Proven track record of effective team leadership, performance management, and fostering a positive, growth oriented environment.
* Strategic Mindset: Strong analytical skills, able to make data driven decisions, and balance between hands on support and strategic planning.
About Accelerant
Accelerant is a data-driven, technology-fueled insurance platform that empowers underwriters to more effectively serve their insureds. We're using advanced data intelligence tools to rebuild the way that underwriters share and exchange risk. With a current focus on the small and medium-sized businesses that power our global economy and their niche insurance needs, we align incentives to improve outcomes for everyone. Our full-service risk exchange supports our carefully selected, best-in-class network of underwriting teams. We leverage granular information on each policy to deliver unprecedented insight into insurance pools, and our specialty portfolio is fully diversified with very low catastrophe, aggregation or systemic risk. We're proud to have been awarded an AM Best A- (Excellent) rating. For more information, please visit www.accelins.com.
Accelerant is a fully remote company. Work where you're most productive and fulfilled. This position is open to remote candidates across the U.S., Canada, UK, and Europe, who have the flexibility to work with our teams distributed across Europe and North America. Most cross-team collaboration happens in the mornings of the Eastern Time Zone.