Engineering Manager - First Connect
Engineering Manager - First Connect
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19-07-2025
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Your question is whats the connection between First Connect and Hippo Insurance
Lets discuss it during our call! To give you a glimpse: First Connect has been a product developed and supported by Hippo Insurance for years and its now continuing its journey in the startup world.
First Connect (FC) is a software platform for insurance agents to enable them to work efficiently and bring the industry into the 21st century.
First Connects flagship offering is a powerful comparative rater where FC users the insurance agents can enter data once and generate multiple insurance quotes to offer their customers. Future work on this tool will dramatically change the market by leveraging integrations with external data sources to make the agents experience smoother. We plan to integrate an ever-growing number of insurance companies through APIs to offer their insurance products.
In this role you will own this area making FCs rater the best in class in terms of user experience speed accuracy and costs. You will rebuild it to design the flows and also own the underlying integrations while incorporating it into our new SaaS offering. Interview our users to understand their needs then work closely with our engineering design and business teams as well as the carriers themselves to prioritize build and monitor this product suite.
So if youre an Engineering Manager looking to shake things up and have a good time while youre at it youve come to the right place.
What will you do:
- 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 teams 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.
We might be a match if you
- Have hands-on experience in software development particularly backend (e.g. 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.
- Understand core CS concepts like algorithms data structures and system design.
- Feel comfortable navigating ambiguity and taking ownership from zero to one.
Recruitment process:
- Send us your CV its the best way for us to get to know you.
- MeetKatrina one of our Recruiters.
- Meet Micha and Krzy (Engineering Interview).
- Conversation with Wojtek (Manager interview).
- Interview with Yotam (Product Interview).
- Meet on the final stage withMarcinandAlicja.
- and... welcome aboard!
What benefits are waiting for you
Salary
31.000 - 35.000 PLN VAT on B2B or equivalent on the contract of employment
Basics
Form of employment of your choosing
Remote work & flexible working hours
Paid sick leave
Paid holidays
Health & Safety
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%
Working conditions & Development
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
Extras you may like
Cafeteria platform extra stwkaevery 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
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
Department / Functional Area
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