So, what’s the role?

As our Chief Technology Officer (CTO) you will be instrumental in envisioning and building the future at Kin. We require someone who is an excellent technologist themselves and can continue to build our technology team into an exceptional and high performing group. Scaling a tech business is hard and we are looking for somebody who has demonstrated success taking a Series C or D company to the next level.

You will partner with executive leaders at Kin to lead our continued transformation of the home insurance industry and be a catalyst for growth. Leveraging your technology leadership experience, you will develop a highly engaged and capable team including technical strategy, architecture, software engineering, infrastructure, corporate IT, and security. The CTO reports to our founder and Chief Executive Officer, Sean Harper. 

A day in the life could include: 

• Leading development and execution of the technology vision and strategy for the Company, in strong partnership with the rest of the executive team.. 
• Continuing to widen our technology moat between us and our legacy competitors.
• Providing expert technical guidance to all functional areas, including strategy, operations, sales and product.
• Scaling, developing and evolving Kin’s software engineering practice and operations with an emphasis on innovation, engagement and excellence. Ensuring alignment of various teams within the technology organization in support of business priorities, while promoting team autonomy and empowerment. 
• Hiring, developing, motivating and retaining talent, to support a vibrant, productive, and inclusive culture. Ensuring teams are aligned with clear expectations and objectives. 
• Ensuring our technology practices and processes adhere to regulatory standards and best practices for data protection privacy, information security and financial reporting. 
• Ensuring strong up-time performance and reliability of the Company’s systems and software, including disaster recovery. Developing strong knowledge transfer mechanisms to support continuity and future readiness.
• Methodically using data to continually improve both team and technology performance.

I’ve got the skills… but do I have the necessary ones?

• Experience taking a Series C or D company to the next level. Experience in Fintech and consumer facing products is a plus.
• Experience in improving the quality of an engineering organization’s output and effecting changes to culture, process and software architecture to increase reliability. Leverage empirical data and methodologies to track engineering quality and throughput. 
• Experience strategically balancing tech debt and new development. 
• Ability to attract, retain, and manage talent while transforming a technology organization’s effectiveness. Experience managing large teams of distributed team members and achieving results primarily through effective leadership, inspiration, and empowered teams.
• Knowledge of modern data engineering practices, e.g. related to data orchestration, data warehouses, data observability and monitoring.
• Can lead high-performing software quality assurance resources in automated testing, integration testing, management, metrics, reporting, and automation.
• Ability to balance short- and longer-term customer, product, and data priorities across the organization.
• Proven ability to set technical vision and build the technical product roadmap from launch to scale; Drive continuous product improvement; Effectively align resources to achieve key business priorities, including appropriate scope, high quality and timely product releases
• Ability to understand and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• At Kin, we use many technologies, including: 
• Ruby on Rails for API and web development, featuring extensive use of Sidekiq for asynchronous processing and RSpec for thoroughly tested code
• TypeScript and Angular for front end web development, with WebComponent powering modularity
• Python with Airflow for ETL and data pipelines, with all data eventually being housed in Redshift
• Terraform and Docker for infrastructure as code, powering our AWS deployments

Bonus Points:

• Experience in startups or fast-growing companies.
• Experience in private and public sector. 
• Insurance industry experience, ideally insurtech. 

Oh, and don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! 

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Flexible PTO policy 
• Very generous equity options and 401K
• Parental Leave
• Continuing education and professional development 
• Disability and Life Insurance 
• The excitement of joining a high-growth Insurtech company and seeing your work make an impact