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The engineering team at Root strives to be one of the most transformative engineering teams ever. We’re changing the way an industry works by leveraging technology and data to build the best products possible. Even with our significant growth, we operate in small teams that are given ownership over projects and results. We’ve found that the people closest to the problems are the best at solving them. We're actively hiring Engineers for our Columbus, OH or Chicago, IL offices, as well as those who prefer to work remotely! Remote employees must be located in the United States are expected to work either Eastern or Central timezone hours. Our tech stack includes: Ruby / Rails backend, RSpec for testing Javascript / React Native frontend, Mocha for testing Small amounts of native iOS and Android Deployment to AWS ECS using containers Buildkite for CI We’re scaling rapidly, and we recently launched a $6B IPO: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/root-insurance-ipo-poised-to-disrupt-the-insurance-market-2020-10-30 Our team excels at delivering software to solve the problems in front of us at Root: presently, a suite of world-class mobile, web, and server-based products obsessed with the customer experience. We’ve shaped our team and process around this; we know that constant iteration and experimentation produce the best results. For more information on engineering at Root see root.engineering We divide the areas of responsibility for engineers into three major areas: Technical: The skills and knowledge that make up an engineer’s basic problem-solving toolbox. Planning and Execution: The ability to plan and execute assigned work beyond basic technical solutions. Working with Others: The ability to work effectively with other engineers and people in other functions. Scope of Impact: Individual/Team What we look for in a Software Engineer II:

Technical Skills

• Writes clean, functional, well-tested code
• Experienced with several programming paradigms
• Deep understanding of client-server architecture and web technologies
• Deep understanding of version control tools
• Solid knowledge of databases and SQL
• Basic understanding of infrastructure and devops

Planning and Execution

• Completes large pre-planned tasks in an efficient manner
• Able to take on medium unplanned feature work and bugfixes
• Thinks critically about assigned work to guarantee business functionality. Understands and takes business goals into account when making technical decisions.

Working with Others

• Works with tech lead and teammates to answer questions about their work
• Understands and implements feedback from peers into own work
• Provides effective and accurate technical feedback in code reviews
• Mentors and coaches more junior engineers
• Able to work across teams to tackle complex issues

Job Benefits:

• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Open vacation policy
• Top salaries (we're looking for top talent)
• Equity
• Catered lunch (Monday - Friday)

The engineering team at Root is changing the insurance industry by leveraging technology and data to build the best products possible. Even with our significant growth, we operate in small teams that are given ownership over projects and results. We’ve found that the people closest to the problems are the best at solving them. We're actively hiring Engineers for our Columbus, OH, or Chicago, IL offices, as well as those who prefer to work remotely! Remote employees must be located in the United States and are expected to work either Eastern or Central time-zone hours. For more information on engineering at Root, see root.engineering The Team The Reliability Team enables engineers to deploy code and provision, operate, monitor, and own infrastructure. Additionally, we set standards and best practices and serve as internal subject matter experts for select cloud-based services. We accomplish our mission primarily through software tooling. We deploy our applications using Amazon Elastic Container Service running Docker containers. For our infrastructure, we use Terraform with in-house tooling. We’re looking for a site reliability engineer to help scale these platforms. You’ll be joining a small team dedicated to infrastructure, having a large opportunity to influence how we scale and automate these systems. The Role We divide the areas of responsibility for engineers into three major categories: Technical: The skills and knowledge that make up an engineer’s basic problem-solving toolbox. Planning and Execution: The ability to plan and execute assigned work beyond basic technical solutions. Working with Others: The ability to work effectively with other engineers and people in other functions.

Technical Skills

• Experience with a dynamic programming language (Ruby, Python, etc.)
• Deep understanding of infrastructure-as-code, managing infrastructure via APIs, and deploying large scale systems reliably
• Experience with a major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Understanding of network configuration, common protocols, and subnetting
• Understanding monitoring large systems, using SLOs/SLIs as a guide
• Solid knowledge of databases, SQL, and version control tools

Planning and Execution

• Plans and completes large and complex tasks/projects autonomously, usually the most important initiatives scoped to the team
• Thinks critically about work to guarantee business functionality. Understands and takes into account business goals into their technical decisions
• Breaks down large initiatives into incrementally implementable deliverables
• Works with team lead to help define and guide the team roadmap

Working with Others

• Provides effective and accurate technical feedback in code reviews
• Works across teams to tackle complex issues
• Positively influences other engineers, both directly and indirectly
• Mentors junior engineers (both inside and outside of the team)

Job Benefits:

• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Open vacation policy
• Top salaries (we're looking for top talent)
• Equity
• Catered lunch (Monday - Friday)

As Root continues to grow and scale, there is an ever-increasing need to mature our policies, procedures, and governance programs to match the risks and insurance regulatory environment. As Root’s GRC Program Manager, you will work across the organization to build, monitor, and iterate our GRC program to ensure that we are meeting our regulatory requirements from an IT and Information Security perspective. As with any high growth company, there will need to be a careful balance between team level objects and the implementation of the GRC framework. The right candidate will be technically sound, an exceptional communicator and influential leader, who thrives in highly collaborative environments.

What you’ll be doing.

• Develop, implement, and maintain technology policies and procedures across the entire engineering organization.
• Lead the annual information security risk assessment and incorporate the results into GRC program improvements.
• Oversee internal technology control testing and gap assessments.
• Issues clear and concise reports, using data, technology and visualization tools to communicate results effectively
• Identifies root causes and provides management practical value-add solutions and recommendations
• Proactively informs senior management of significant risks or exposures related to internal controls, compliance, and governance requiring prompt attention
• Partners with SOX control team on implementing and validating technology controlsTrack exceptions to the governance program and drives remediation planning
• Participates as necessary in all regulatory exams and other third-party audits
• Prepares and presents reports for Information Security leadership, the CTO, and Executive Management

What we’re looking for.

• Experience with building technology and information security control programs
• Active CIA, CISA, CRISC, CISM, or CISSP required
• Strong technology background highly valued
• Superior problem-solving skills with the ability to think strategically and innovatively
• Roll-up-the sleeves work ethic and “do-what-it takes” attitude to efficiently execute and drive for results in a fast-paced work environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proven ability to thrive in a results-driven, fast-paced work environment
• Exceptional leadership skills; naturally collaborative, excels at influencing without direct authority

Job Benefits:

• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Open vacation policy
• Top salaries (we're looking for top talent)
• Equity
• Catered lunch (Monday - Friday)

The engineering team at Root is changing the insurance industry by leveraging technology and data to build the best products possible. Even with our significant growth, we operate in small teams that are given ownership over projects and results. We’ve found that the people closest to the problems are the best at solving them. We're actively hiring Engineers for our Columbus, OH, or Chicago, IL offices, as well as those who prefer to work remotely! Remote employees must be located in the United States and are expected to work either Eastern or Central time-zone hours. For more information on engineering at Root, see root.engineering The Team The Reliability Team enables engineers to deploy code and provision, operate, monitor, and own infrastructure. Additionally, we set standards and best practices and serve as internal subject matter experts for select cloud-based services. We accomplish our mission primarily through software tooling. We deploy our applications using Amazon Elastic Container Service running Docker containers. For our infrastructure, we use Terraform with in-house tooling. We’re looking for a site reliability engineer to help scale these platforms. You’ll be joining a small team dedicated to infrastructure, having a large opportunity to influence how we scale and automate these systems. The Role We divide the areas of responsibility for engineers into three major categories: Technical: The skills and knowledge that make up an engineer’s basic problem-solving toolbox. Planning and Execution: The ability to plan and execute assigned work beyond basic technical solutions. Working with Others: The ability to work effectively with other engineers and people in other functions.

Technical Skills

• Experience with a dynamic programming language (Ruby, Python, etc.)
• Deep understanding of infrastructure-as-code, managing infrastructure via APIs, and deploying large scale systems reliably
• Experience with a major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Understanding of network configuration, common protocols, and subnetting
• Understanding monitoring large systems, using SLOs/SLIs as a guide
• Solid knowledge of databases, SQL, and version control tools

Planning and Execution

• Plans and completes large and complex tasks/projects autonomously, usually the most important initiatives scoped to the team
• Thinks critically about work to guarantee business functionality. Understands and takes into account business goals into their technical decisions
• Breaks down large initiatives into incrementally implementable deliverables
• Works with team lead to help define and guide the team roadmap

Working with Others

• Provides effective and accurate technical feedback in code reviews
• Works across teams to tackle complex issues
• Positively influences other engineers, both directly and indirectly
• Mentors junior engineers (both inside and outside of the team)

Job Benefits:

• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Open vacation policy
• Top salaries (we're looking for top talent)
• Equity
• Catered lunch (Monday - Friday)

The engineering team at Root strives to be one of the most transformative engineering teams ever. We’re changing the way an industry works by leveraging technology and data to build the best products possible. Even with our significant growth, we operate in small teams that are given ownership over projects and results. We’ve found that the people closest to the problems are the best at solving them.

Our tech stack includes:
Ruby / Rails backend, RSpec for testing
Javascript / React Native frontend, Mocha for testing
Small amounts of native iOS and Android
Deployment to AWS ECS using containers
Buildkite for CI

We're scaling rapidly, and we recently launched a $6B IPO:
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/root-insurance-ipo-poised-to-disrupt-the-insurance-market-2020-10-30

Our team excels at delivering software to solve the problems in front of us at Root: presently, a suite of world-class mobile, web, and server-based products obsessed with the customer experience. We’ve shaped our team and process around this; we know that constant iteration and experimentation produce the best results.

For more information on engineering at Root see https://eng.joinroot.com/

We divide the areas of responsibility for engineers into three major areas:

Technical: The skills and knowledge that make up an engineer’s basic problem-solving toolbox.
Planning and Execution: The ability to plan and execute assigned work beyond basic technical solutions.
Working with Others: The ability to work effectively with other engineers and people in other functions.

Scope of Impact Team/Initiative/Company

What we look for in senior software engineers:

Technical Skills:
Deep understanding of dynamic languages, client-server architecture, and web technologies
Incorporates testing and thinks about reliability as a natural part of delivering working software
Experienced with several programming paradigms
Solid knowledge of databases, SQL, and version control tools
Adequate understanding of infrastructure and devops

Planning and execution:
Plans and completes large and complex tasks/projects without supervision
Foresees issues and requirements for large projects and features
Completes large pre-planned tasks in an efficient manner
Thinks critically about work to guarantee business functionality. Understands and takes into account business goals into their technical decisions.
Can break down large initiatives into incrementally implementable deliverables

Working with Others:
Provides effective and accurate technical feedback in code reviews
Able to work across teams to tackle complex issues
Able to positively influence other engineers, both directly and indirectly
Works with product owners, analysts and other functions to move company’s priorities forward

Job Benefits:

• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Open vacation policy
• Top salaries (we're looking for top talent)
• Equity
• Catered lunch (Monday - Friday)

Time zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time

The engineering team at Root strives to be one of the most transformative engineering teams ever. We’re changing the way an industry works by leveraging technology and data to build the best products possible. Even with our significant growth, we operate in small teams that are given ownership over projects and results. We’ve found that the people closest to the problems are the best at solving them. We're actively hiring Engineers for our Columbus, OH or Chicago, IL offices, as well as those who prefer to work remotely! Remote employees must be located in the United States are expected to work either Eastern or Central timezone hours. Our tech stack includes: Ruby / Rails backend, RSpec for testing Javascript / React Native frontend, Mocha for testing Small amounts of native iOS and Android Deployment to AWS ECS using containers Buildkite for CI We’re scaling rapidly, and we recently launched a $6B IPO: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/root-insurance-ipo-poised-to-disrupt-the-insurance-market-2020-10-30 Our team excels at delivering software to solve the problems in front of us at Root: presently, a suite of world-class mobile, web, and server-based products obsessed with the customer experience. We’ve shaped our team and process around this; we know that constant iteration and experimentation produce the best results. For more information on engineering at Root see root.engineering Staff Engineers at Root are our most trusted technical experts. They work across multiple teams of engineers to set and coordinate technical direction. Staff Engineers facilitate the delivery of large projects and features by helping design solutions, pair programming with other engineers, contributing to code review and by writing code themselves. They help strengthen the technical prowess of the entire engineering organization by mentoring and growing the engineers around them. We divide the areas of responsibility for engineers into three major areas: Technical: The skills and knowledge that make up an engineer’s basic problem-solving toolbox. Planning and Execution: The ability to plan and execute assigned work beyond basic technical solutions. Working with Others: The ability to work effectively with other engineers and people in other functions. Scope of Impact Multiple Teams, Large Initiatives, or Company What we look for in Staff Software Engineers:

Technical Skills

• Deep understanding of technologies used in our stack, client-server architecture, and web technologies
• Ability to architect complex, high-scale web applications and data solutions
• Incorporates testing and thinks about reliability as a natural part of delivering working software
• Experienced with several programming paradigms
• Expert-level knowledge of databases, SQL, and version control tools
• Thorough understanding of infrastructure and devops

Planning and Execution

• Plans and completes large and complex multi-person or multi-team projects
• Foresees issues and requirements for large projects and features
• Thinks critically about work to guarantee business functionality. Internalizes business goals in their technical decision making.
• Can break down large initiatives into incrementally implementable deliverables and coordinate them across multiple engineers and teams

Working with Others

• Provides effective and accurate technical feedback in code reviews
• Able to work across teams to tackle complex issues
• Mentors and grows the engineers around them
• Works with product owners, analysts and other functions to move company’s priorities forward

Job Benefits:

• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Open vacation policy
• Top salaries (we're looking for top talent)
• Equity
• Catered lunch (Monday - Friday)

The engineering team at Root strives to be one of the most transformative engineering teams ever. We’re changing the way that car insurance works. We’re competing with companies that have been around for a century and comprise a $200B industry—and we’re doing it with astonishingly small teams.

Our tech stack includes:
Ruby / Rails backend, RSpec for testing
Javascript / React Native frontend, Mocha for testing
Small amounts of native iOS and Android
Deployment to AWS ECS using containers
Buildkite for CI

We're scaling rapidly, and we recently launched a $6B IPO:
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/root-insurance-ipo-poised-to-disrupt-the-insurance-market-2020-10-30

Our team excels at delivering software to build Root’s products: presently, mobile apps and a backend platform for personal auto insurance. We’ve shaped our team and our way of working around this. Our engineering team would not be the most transformative team at building a mobile operating system. We’d be quite bad at that. We’re exceptionally good at building the type of software that is necessary to invoke change in the insurance industry.

For more information on engineering at Root see https://eng.joinroot.com/

Engineering Managers at Root are responsible for both technical and managerial leadership of their teams. Managers are often our strongest individual contributors and we expect them to meet or exceed all of the technical and non-technical expectations of a Senior Software Engineer. 

We divide the areas of responsibility for engineers into three major areas:

Technical: The skills and knowledge that make up an engineer’s basic problem-solving toolbox.
Planning and Execution: The ability to plan and execute assigned work beyond basic technical solutions.
Working with Others: The ability to work effectively with other engineers and people in other functions.

Scope of Impact: Team/Initiative/Company

What we look for in an Engineering Manager:

Technical Skills

• Deep understanding of technologies used in our stack, client-server architecture, and web technologies
• Incorporates testing and thinks about reliability as a natural part of delivering working software
• Experienced with several programming paradigms
• Solid knowledge of databases, SQL, and version control tools
• Adequate understanding of infrastructure and devops
• Able to design and architect maintainable and scalable technical systems

Planning and Execution

• Thinks critically about work to guarantee business functionality. Understands and takes into account business goals into their technical decisions.
• Plans and supervises work for others
• Completes complex tasks/projects in an efficient manner
• Foresees issues and requirements for large projects and features
• Can break down large initiatives into incrementally implementable deliverables

Working with Others

• Mentors and grows other engineers
• Sets and evaluates goals for direct reports
• Provides effective and accurate technical feedback in code reviews
• Able to work across teams to tackle complex issues
• Able to positively influence other engineers, both directly and indirectly
• Works with product owners, analysts and other functions to move the company’s priorities forward

Job Benefits:

• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Open vacation policy
• Top salaries (we're looking for top talent)
• Equity
• Catered lunch (Monday - Friday)

Time zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time

The engineering team at Root strives to be one of the most transformative engineering teams ever. We’re changing the way an industry works by leveraging technology and data to build the best products possible. Even with our significant growth, we operate in small teams that are given ownership over projects and results. We’ve found that the people closest to the problems are the best at solving them.

For more information on engineering at Root, see https://eng.joinroot.com/. 

We're scaling rapidly, and we recently launched a $6B IPO:

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/root-insurance-ipo-poised-to-disrupt-the-insurance-market-2020-10-30

Our team excels at delivering software to solve the problems in front of us at Root: presently, a suite of world-class mobile, web, and server-based products obsessed with the customer experience. We’ve shaped our team and process around this; we know that constant iteration and experimentation produce the best results.

We are growing and are recruiting for an Engineering Manager for our Mobile Telematics team, which is responsible for how we gather telematics data natively from mobile devices. This team is at the core of the methods we use to price auto insurance and much more. 

Engineering Managers at Root are responsible for both technical and managerial leadership of their teams.  Managers are often our most vital individual contributors, and we expect them to meet or exceed all of the technical and non-technical expectations of a Senior Software Engineer. 

We divide the areas of responsibility for engineering managers into three major areas:

Technical: The skills and knowledge that make up an engineer’s basic problem-solving toolbox.
Planning and Execution: The ability to plan and execute assigned work beyond basic technical solutions.
Working with Others: The ability to work effectively with other engineers and people in other functions.

Scope of Impact Team/Initiative/Company 

What we look for in a Mobile Telematics Engineering Manager:

Technical Skills

• Deep understanding of mobile development, preferably either iOS native development (Swift/Objective-C) or Android native development (Java/Kotlin). 
• Some experience with backend development to support mobile applications / SDK preferred.
• Incorporates testing and thinks about reliability as a natural part of delivering working software
• Solid knowledge of databases, SQL, and version control tools
• Able to design and architect maintainable and scalable technical systems

Planning and Execution

• Thinks critically about work to guarantee business functionality. Understands and takes into account business goals into their technical decisions.
• Plans and supervises work for others
• Completes complex tasks/projects in an efficient manner
• Foresees issues and requirements for large projects and features
• Can break down large initiatives into incrementally implementable deliverables

Working with Others 

• Mentors and grows other engineers
• Sets and evaluates goals for direct reports
• Provides effective and accurate technical feedback in code reviews
• Able to work across teams to tackle complex issues
• Able to positively influence other engineers, both directly and indirectly
• Works with product owners, analysts, and other functions to move the company’s priorities forward

Job Benefits:

• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Open vacation policy
• Top salaries (we're looking for top talent)
• Equity
• Catered lunch (Monday - Friday)

Time zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time

The engineering team at Root strives to be one of the most transformative engineering teams ever. We’re changing the way an industry works by leveraging technology and data to build the best products possible. Even with our significant growth, we operate in small teams that are given ownership over projects and results. We’ve found that the people closest to the problems are the best at solving them.

Our tech stack includes:

Ruby / Rails backend, RSpec for testing
Javascript / React Native frontend, Mocha for testing
Small amounts of native iOS and Android
Deployment to AWS ECS using containers
Buildkite for CI

We're scaling rapidly, and we recently launched a $6B IPO:
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/root-insurance-ipo-poised-to-disrupt-the-insurance-market-2020-10-30

Our team excels at delivering software to solve the problems in front of us at Root: presently, a suite of world-class mobile, web, and server-based products obsessed with the customer experience. We’ve shaped our team and process around this; we know that constant iteration and experimentation produce the best results.

For more information on engineering at Root see https://eng.joinroot.com/

Staff Engineers at Root are our most trusted technical experts.  They work across multiple teams of engineers to set and coordinate technical direction. Staff Engineers facilitate the delivery of large projects and features by helping design solutions, pair programming with other engineers, contributing to code review and by writing code themselves. They help strengthen the technical prowess of the entire engineering organization by mentoring and growing the engineers around them. We're searching for exceptional, React-focused software engineers to leverage their expertise on the front-end to fulfill the responsibilities of this role.

We divide the areas of responsibility for engineers into three major areas:

Technical: The skills and knowledge that make up an engineer’s basic problem-solving toolbox.
Planning and Execution: The ability to plan and execute assigned work beyond basic technical solutions.
Working with Others: The ability to work effectively with other engineers and people in other functions.
Scope of Impact Multiple Teams, Large Initiatives, or Company

What we look for in React Staff Software Engineers:

• Technical Skills:
• Ability to architect complex, performant, and scalable mobile and single page web applications
• Expert-level knowledge of web and mobile technologies including ReactJS and React Native
• Understanding of test strategies, best practices, and tools used in front-end frameworks 
• Experience with functional, procedural, and object-oriented programming techniques
• Deep understanding of front-end build pipelines, version control tools, and upgrade strategies used with large groups of developers

• Planning and Execution:
• Plans and completes large and complex multi-person or multi-team projects
• Foresees issues and requirements for large projects and features
• Thinks critically about work to guarantee business functionality. Internalizes business goals in their technical decision making
• Can break down large initiatives into incrementally implementable deliverables and coordinate them across multiple engineers and teams
  
  
• Working with Others:
• Provides effective and accurate technical feedback in code reviews
• Able to work across teams to tackle complex issues
• Mentors and grows the engineers around them
• Works with product owners, analysts and other functions to move the company’s priorities forward

Job Benefits:

• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Open vacation policy
• Top salaries (we're looking for top talent)
• Equity
• Catered lunch (Monday - Friday)

Time zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time