Engineering Manager

Summary

Join First Connect, a Hippo Insurance spin-off, and lead a team of backend engineers building and maintaining a cutting-edge comparative insurance rater platform. You will oversee the entire development lifecycle of API integrations with insurance carriers, from design to deployment. This role demands strong technical expertise in backend development (e.g., Node.js, TypeScript), team leadership, and communication skills. You will collaborate with various teams and external stakeholders to ensure the platform's reliability, scalability, and user-friendliness. The position offers significant opportunities to shape the product roadmap and foster a positive team culture. This is a chance to make a real impact on the insurance industry.

Requirements

• Have hands-on experience in software development, particularly backend (e.g., Node.js, TypeScript)
• Bring a strong track record of engineering team leadership and people management
• Communicate clearly, manage escalations with confidence, and keep projects on track
• Are passionate about building user-focused, customer-centric solutions
• Know how to build high-performing teams, nurture talent, and influence cross-functional stakeholders
• Thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments with shifting priorities
• Have solid technical expertise in areas like JavaScript/Node.js, React, or Python
• Understand core CS concepts like algorithms, data structures, and system design
• Have experience working with modern databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, BigQuery)
• Feel comfortable navigating ambiguity and taking ownership from zero to one

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and support a distributed team of backend engineers working on carrier integrations
• Oversee end-to-end development of API integrations with insurance carriers – from planning and design to deployment and maintenance
• Serve as the team’s technical leader, conducting code and design reviews, and promoting best engineering practices
• Build strong, trust-based collaboration across teams (Product, QA, other engineering units) and with external stakeholders (carrier tech teams)
• Tackle complex technical challenges, especially around integrating with unreliable or poorly documented external APIs
• Ensure system reliability, scalability, and maintainability while balancing urgent business goals
• Drive continuous improvement, proactively resolving blockers and managing technical debt
• Collaborate directly with carrier tech contacts to debug issues and fine-tune integration flows
• Contribute to architectural decisions, especially as the team scales and the project evolves
• Help shape the roadmap and prioritize engineering efforts to deliver real value to agents and carriers
• Foster a culture of accountability, psychological safety, and shared success within the team
• Support future team growth – including potentially building and leading a second engineering team focused on a new carrier portal

Benefits

• Salary 31.000 - 35.000 PLN + VAT on B2B or equivalent on the contract of employment
• ���� Form of employment of your choosing
• ���� Remote work & flexible working hours
• ���� Paid sick leave
• ����️ Paid holidays
• ���� Private medical care with dentists & orthodontists package for you and your family
• ���️ Group life insurance
• ���� Psychotherapists support — free online sessions with psychologists and psychotherapists
• ���� Home physiotherapy
• ���� Multisport card & meditation apps reimbursed 50%
• ���� Gear with Apple Logo and monitor
• ���� 50% reimbursement for courses, conferences, books & certificates
• ����🇸 Free access to private language lessons
• ���� 6 Personal Development Days & 4 Voluntary Days Off
• ���� Cafeteria platform — extra “stówka”every month to spend on whatever you want to
• ���� Nanny services for parents
• ���� Concierge services – a personal assistant to help you to deal with your everyday matters
• ���� Chill room with table football & PlayStation 5
• ���� Free snacks, and ice cream in the office (every day, all year round!)
• ���� Free Friday Lunch in the office
• ���� Team building events — we party together several times a year during the annual Offsite & Christmas Parties, beer after work, or our #WinterEscapeMonth workation in Cyprus