We’d love to hear from you if you like:
Making a big impact with a Forbes Top Startup Employer
Working on products that have traction (30X revenue growth in 3 years | #1 rated app in the insurance comparison category)
Solving problems in a huge market ($2T market size)
Working closely with serial entrepreneurs and strong leaders who have scaled companies like Nvidia, Microsoft, Robinhood, Amazon, SoFi, Wayfair, etc.
About the opportunity:
We are on a mission to disrupt the car ownership experience and help people who rely on their vehicles everyday save time and money on one of their most expensive, time-consuming and high-maintenance assets. Simplifying and democratizing car ownership and creating a world-class experience is what drives every decision we make as a company. Since launching our AllCar app in 2019, we have amassed over 4M customers, and expanded beyond insurance shopping to refinancing, safety and repairs.
Jerry is looking for a seasoned engineering leader who is passionate about building high performance engineering teams to join us as our VP of Engineering. Reporting directly to our co-founder/CTO, you will be responsible for attracting and engaging high quality talent, and ensuring a high bar of execution for the engineering org of 70+ team members. You will create a team culture of amplifying Jerry’s values of excellence, ownership, and urgency. If you are looking for an opportunity to make a measurable difference in the lives of millions and help us disrupt a massive industry, we’d love to hear from you!
What you’ll do:
Directly supervise engineering team leads. You will be responsible for high quality and high velocity execution of the engineering org.
Anticipate strategic and scaling-related challenges.
Unblocking and pushing the team to hit deadlines.
Identifying, evaluating, and optimizing processes to maximize efficiency.
Foster a collaborative, ambitious, and outcome-driven culture.
Partner with our People team to attract and engage top talent.
Provide continuous feedback, address underperformance, and recognize the individual strengths and contributions of your team members.
Facilitate and collaborate with cross functional partners including product, design, data science, marketing and operations.
Who you are:
You have experience leading a high-performance engineering team.
You have overseen an engineering org of 50+.
You have software development experience scaling a consumer-facing product (mobile or web)
You have a strong sense of urgency to deliver results and inspire the team to achieve beyond what they think is possible.
You have a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
You are enthusiastic about diving into the code and getting your hands dirty when needed.
You have strong technical mastery in software engineering but remain curious and committed to learning and improving your craft
Our technical stack:
Language and frameworks: Typescript: Nest.js, Next.js, React, React Native, Expo
API: GraphQL
DB: Postgres, DynamoDB, Clickhouse, Redis
Infrastructure: Built on AWS, microservice architecture with containerized services deployed on ECS and EKS. Asynchronous processing functions running on Lambda.
Jerry is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, reproductive health decisions or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other characteristics protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.
Jerry is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected]
About Jerry:
Jerry is America’s first and only AllCar™ app. We are redefining and radically improving how people manage owning a car, one of their most expensive and time-consuming assets.
Backed by artificial intelligence and machine learning, Jerry simplifies and automates owning and maintaining a car while providing personalized services for all car owners’ needs. We spend every day innovating and improving our AI-powered app to provide the best possible experience for our customers. From car insurance and financing to maintenance and safety, Jerry does it all.
We are the #1 rated and most downloaded app in our category with a 4.7 star rating in the App Store. We have more than 4 million customers — and we’re just getting started.
Jerry was founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneurs and has raised more than $242 million in financing.
Join our team and work with passionate, curious and egoless people who love solving real-world problems. Help us build a revolutionary product that’s disrupting a massive market.
