Senior Engineering Manager

Who we are:

Nirvana is on a mission to harness the power of data to revolutionize commercial insurance and enable a safer world. We are bringing much-needed innovation into the legacy, trillion-dollar commercial insurance industry. We have developed cutting-edge predictive models that use real-time IoT data from billions of connected devices, allowing us to better understand and price risk. Our AI-driven platform fundamentally changes the way an insurance company operates with personalized risk scoring, faster underwriting, modernized claims, and proactive, data-driven insights to help customers prevent accidents.

We’ve already proven the scale—reaching well over $100 million in premiums and more than doubling year over year. Our data moat is growing exponentially with more than 20 billion miles of telematics data, leading to more predictive models and new insights into how we can better understand and reduce risk. Altogether, our loss ratio, efficiency, and customer experience are redefining what can be done in the industry.

With $170+ million raised, including an industry-leading Series C round in January 2025, we’re only accelerating our growth, with strong support from top-tier VCs including Lightspeed, General Catalyst, and Valor. Nirvana’s leadership team has previously helped scale multi-billion-dollar companies from scratch, including Samsara, Rubrik, and Flexport, and includes industry veterans from Hiscox, The Hartford, and RLI.

About the role:

We’re looking for an exceptional Senior Engineering Manager to lead our critical engineering efforts in India. You will be accountable for building critical business driving Product and Platform teams at Nirvana responsible for driving customer growth, supercharge revenue growth, and optimize customer experience across the insurance lifecycle.

You'll collaborate closely with product management, sales, customer success, data science teams, and platform engineering groups. Your work directly impacts our company's growth trajectory, revenue expansion, customer satisfaction, and market leadership position.

Core Responsibilities:

1. Product & Business Strategy Alignment:

   • Partner closely with Product Managers, commercial stakeholders, and company leadership to understand business priorities, user pain points, and revenue drivers.

   • Define and execute technical roadmaps that directly contribute to business objectives, ensuring alignment between engineering deliverables and corporate strategic outcomes.

2. User-Centric Product Development:

   • Oversee the design, development, and scaling of outstanding digital products including customer-facing portals, applications, APIs, and analytics dashboards used by internal stakeholders, partners, and customers.

   • Drive best practices for product engineering, emphasizing high-quality UX, product performance, customer satisfaction, feature velocity, reliability, and scalability.

3. Cross-Functional Leadership:

   • Collaborate closely with product, data science teams to build product features that directly enhance user adoption, retention, and revenue growth.

   • Facilitate strong partnerships and agile collaboration, removing obstacles and aligning teams around clear, measurable business outcomes.

   • Champion the ideation of eng driven initiatives upleveling both the technical ecosystem as well as initiatives that impact the bottom line directly.

4. Technical, Operational, & Execution Excellence:

   • Elevate engineering rigor through thoughtful technical decisions, fostering continuous improvement, test coverage, maintainability, and software quality.

   • Promote a culture of transparency, accountability, and operational excellence — providing clear project visibility, incident responsiveness, and workload prioritization based on business urgency.

5. People Leadership & Talent Development:

   • Hire, mentor, inspire, and grow high-performing engineering teams. Provide team members with meaningful career paths, skills development, regular feedback, and coaching.

   • Create an inclusive engineering culture fostering initiative-taking, innovation, collaboration across geographies, and continuous learning.

About you:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

• Overall 10+ years of experience, with a proven track record developing customer-facing or business products using backend technologies (e.g., Golang, Scala, Java, C++, Python), growing to a senior IC level.

• At least 3+ years experience managing and scaling successful product-engineering teams, mentoring engineers while guiding product delivery aligned with strategic business outcomes.

• Strong experience leading end-to-end product development lifecycles, translating business strategies and user requirements into high-quality, scalable products.

• Customer-obsessed with excellent instincts for product experience, usability, and customer impact.

• Proven cross-team collaboration skills, especially with product managers, sales, and data scientists. Able to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• A bias-to-action and owner mindset with the ability to proactively drive product innovation in ambiguous, rapidly evolving startup environments

• Demonstrated experience in shaping product roadmaps from business drivers and customer feedback with a proven track record of measurably impacting KPI outcomes (growth, customer satisfaction, revenue expansion).
  

Benefits

• Competitive compensation & meaningful equity

• Health insurance for you and your family

• Monthly wellness stipend

• Hybrid culture and reimbursement for home office equipment

• A flexible vacation policy and a team that understands building a company is a marathon, not a sprint

• A culture that gives you the autonomy you need to do great work, and the transparency you need to make good decisions

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