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Verisk

Builds data and risk software for insurers

Senior Manager Software Engineering

Full-Time
$120k - $145k/yr
Senior, Expert
College Station, TX, USA
RemoteRemote within the United States.
Engineering ManagementEngineering Leadership

About the job

Requirements
  • 8–12+ years in software engineering or systems development
  • 5+ years leading complex delivery through other engineers (formal or informal leadership)
  • Proven track record leading engineering teams that have fully leveraged AI tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude, Kiro, etc.) as a first-class part of SDLC, with demonstrated productivity gains in code generation, code review, and testing
  • Hands-on experience with large, high-transaction data systems, including RDBMS-centric architectures (Oracle strongly preferred)
  • Production change control
  • Incident response
  • Data integrity and operational risk
  • Experience operating in regulated or audit-bound environments (SOC 2-like rigor is a strong positive)
  • Experience designing systems that fully exploit the benefits of AI, leveraging agentic workflows, AI orchestration, prompt and context engineering, RAG, and MCP
  • Evaluate architectural tradeoffs objectively
  • Ask the right technical questions of tech leads
  • Understand database-centric performance and scalability drivers
  • Participate meaningfully in risk, incident, and readiness discussions
  • Actively hires and upskills talent to thrive in the rapidly evolving AI landscape, normalizing AI-assisted development as a baseline expectation
  • Creates autonomy through clarity, not control
  • Exercises strong judgment in delegation, intentionally deciding when to lead, when to empower, and when to step in
  • Is comfortable with tech leads owning design and implementation while providing constraints, risk signals, and organizational context
  • Can operate calmly when: expectations are misaligned; authority boundaries are shifting; organizational memory is inconsistent
  • Actively coach and develop senior engineers
  • Recognize burnout and sustainability risks early
  • Be able to "manage up" without becoming adversarial
  • Communicate candidly but with emotional intelligence
  • Turning ambiguity into minimal, visible operating guideposts
  • Maintaining forward motion when priorities compete
  • Balancing long-term platform health against short-term delivery pressure
  • Coordinating across product, DevOps, security, and compliance without creating friction
Responsibilities
  • Lead engineering teams that have fully embraced AI tooling as a first-class part of the SDLC
  • Stabilizes and scales complex, compliance-sensitive platforms
  • Enables strong tech lead autonomy without losing accountability
  • Translates ambiguous organizational intent into clear guardrails, priorities, and operating norms
  • Drives delivery across product, engineering, DevOps, and compliance
Desired Qualifications
  • Insurance, fintech, or government-adjacent systems
  • Cloud + legacy hybrid environments
  • Transitioning teams through role ambiguity and operating-model change
  • Prior responsibility spanning engineering + DevOps + platform operations

About the company

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Verisk

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Verisk sells data, analytics, and software to insurers, reinsurers, and insurance intermediaries that assess risk and settle claims. Its tools support insurance pricing and policy development, catastrophe modeling, and claims investigation, combining industry records with scientific models and specialized applications. Xactimate calculates property repair estimates, while other platforms compare claims to identify suspected fraud and model losses from natural disasters. Customers pay through hosted subscriptions, transaction fees, and advisory services, with software and data integrated into their underwriting and claims workflows. Verisk traces its operating roots to 1971 and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Company Size

5,001-10,000

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Jersey City, New Jersey

Founded

1971

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Core demand is expanding: July 2026 results showed Verisk's subscriptions growing 8% excluding currency and portfolio changes.
  • Recurring contracts support stability: subscriptions generated 84% of Verisk's insurance revenue in the first half of 2026.
  • Career progression has a map: Verisk's Career Framework links employee skills to job functions and grades.

What critics are saying

  • Data suppliers hold leverage: Verisk's contracts are short term, and some suppliers also compete with it.
  • Technology teams face a handoff: Verisk's CIO role moved to interim leadership in August 2026.
  • Merger execution faced court intervention: August 2026 ruling ordered Verisk to pursue AccuLynx approval and pay direct costs.

What makes Verisk unique

  • Insurance rulebooks are a product: Verisk's ISO library contains more than 30,000 standardized policy forms and resources.
  • Repair pricing is local: Verisk's estimating data covers more than 460 markets using completed jobs and cost research.
  • Its data has a field operation: Verisk deploys about 500 US representatives to inspect properties and community protections.

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Benefits

  • Hybrid Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

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1 year growth

17%

2 year growth

17%
Yahoo Finance
Oct 24th, 2026
Verisk stock falls 13.4% in a year to $203.33, but can past support hold?

Verisk Analytics stock has lost 13.4% over the past year, including dividends, while the S&P 500 gained 15.1%. At $203.33, the shares sit near a level where buyers have stepped in before. The stock rose 21.1% within 112 days from $189.94 in July 2021, and 33.6% within 316 days from $187.69 in March 2023. Buyers did not hold this price during the last two visits, in October 2025 and March 2026. Subscription sales, 83% of second-quarter revenue, grew 8%, while transaction sales fell 4.2%. Debt rose to $4.62 billion from $3.43 billion a year earlier. Support breaks below $193.16, with the next level at $175.62.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 22nd, 2026
Verisk shares trade 40% below high at $190.87 as bulls cite 16x EBITDA and 63 hedge fund holders

Verisk Analytics (NASDAQ:VRSK) trades more than 40% below its 52-week high of $322.92, and bulls argue the market undervalues the insurance data provider. Its shares were $190.87 on October 20, 2026, and have lost 19.62% over 12 months. About 90% of the largest property and casualty insurers use Verisk, with customer retention above 95%. Fiscal 2025 organic revenue grew 6.6% and free cash flow reached $1.19 billion. Growth slowed to 4.7% in the first quarter of 2026, but the company kept its full-year revenue guidance at $3.19 billion to $3.24 billion. It also sold its energy analytics unit for $3.1 billion. Its EV/EBITDA of 15.73x compares with 20.22x for Moody's and 21.95x for S&P Global. Hedge fund holders rose to 63 from 50 in the second quarter. Risks include slowing growth and the reliability of its catastrophe models as climate patterns shift.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Oct 13th, 2026
Form 8-K

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (201) 469-2000

Yahoo Finance
Oct 13th, 2026
Services stocks: IonQ and Motorola Solutions to watch, Verisk to avoid

Business services stocks have gained 19.6% over the past six months, 6.1 percentage points ahead of the S&P 500, according to StockStory. It names two stocks to watch and one to avoid, warning that the sector is sensitive to the wider economy. Motorola Solutions (NYSE:MSI), valued at $73.86 billion, grew revenue 9.2% annually over five years. Its free cash flow margin is 18.9%, and its shares trade at $447.72, or 24.5x forward earnings. IonQ (NYSE:IONQ), a quantum computing company worth $14.41 billion, grew revenue 181% annually over two years. Projected growth for the next 12 months is 166%, and shares trade at $36.28. The stock to avoid is Verisk (NASDAQ:VRSK), worth $23.1 billion. Its revenue grew just 1.7% annually over five years, and earnings per share rose 8% annually over two years.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 5th, 2026
Solera and Verisk link UK motor insurance claims data directly to 3,000 repair shops to cut waiting times

Solera and Verisk have launched an integration connecting Verisk's IVI Total Loss solution with Solera's Audatex estimating platform to streamline motor insurance claims in the UK. The system allows customer information and vehicle images captured at First Notification of Loss to flow directly to repairers, eliminating duplication and enabling earlier action on claims. Nearly 3,000 UK repairers using Audatex now receive instant access to FNOL images, allowing them to prepare labour and materials before vehicles arrive. This early visibility supports faster triage, improved planning and earlier parts ordering, reducing delays in the repair process. The integration improves claims accuracy and operational efficiency by ensuring critical data flows seamlessly between insurers and their approved repairer networks, helping accelerate the overall repair journey for customers.