Director of Engineering in Vancouver

Our mission at Quandri is to transform insurance into a trusted and delightful experience using AI. We are building the AI operating system for North America’s best insurance agencies and brokerages. For the first time ever, we have the technology to fundamentally change how insurance operates, and the stakes are human. Better insurance means families protected from harm, businesses able to take risks, and communities more resilient when the worst happens.

Quandri brings deeply specific, vertically-focused AI to the industry’s most critical stakeholders: insurance agencies and brokerages. Agents are the lifeblood of the industry, the place where most property and casualty insurance is sold and serviced. Yet operating an agency is harder than ever. Peak product complexity, accelerating consolidation, a deepening talent crisis, and the AI revolution are all reshaping how agencies work. Quandri sits at the cutting edge of this shift, rebuilding how agencies operate one workflow at a time.

We’re making insurance better for policyholders, while helping insurance brokerages deliver a better client service, grow faster, and harness AI so that they control the future of insurance distribution.

As the engineering leader of the two teams driving our agentic workflows and natural language experience (NLX), you will be responsible for leading the engineering for some of the most critical product experiences for the company’s growth. As a key member of our engineering leadership team, you will also contribute to building and driving a high-performing engineering organization that scales as headcount grows. Your expertise will be crucial in mentoring other developers, guiding them to grow their technical skills. You will also be responsible for hiring new talent and training them to ensure they meet our high standards.

In this role you will be expected to:

• Build and drive day-to-day processes that lead to a highly efficient team of high performing engineers.
• Build and deliver incrementally with a multi-quarter roadmap that drives operational excellence, scalability and reliability.
• Hire, coach, and mentor individuals, fostering a strong cross-functional organization.
• Provide technical expertise and leadership throughout product life cycles.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, including Product Managers, Data/AI engineers, Customer Success, Partnerships, other internal engineering teams, and company leaders.
• Provide clarity in an ambiguous environment, both for your team and for your peers and leaders.

The right person for this role will have:

• Over 4 years of engineering team management experience.
• More than 8 years of professional engineering experience.
• At least 5 years of experience delivering mission critical software.
• In-depth knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software development life cycle.
• Proven experience partnering with product management and internal technical teams.
• Proficient in software development best practices, with a history of deploying and operating software at scale.
• Experienced in designing and implementing databases, backends, and APIs.

Who we’re looking for:

• Problem solver.
• High standards.
• Adaptable.
• Impact.
• Curious.
• Ownership.
• You go deep.
• Intelligent.

Our guiding principles:

• Customers at the core.
• Move with urgency.
• Be curious.
• Excellence in execution.
• Act like an owner.
• Fight for simplicity.
• AI-first.

Compensation and Benefits:

• The range for base pay is $190k - $255k which is dependent on level of experience.
• Employee stock options, granted based off experience level upon hire and subject to a standard vesting schedule.
• Comprehensive health benefits, including $500 Lifestyle Spending Account.
• Four weeks of paid vacation per year.
• Work anywhere in the world for 60 calendar days of the year.
• Parental leave top-ups: 6 months for birthing parents, 8 weeks for non-birthing parents (up to $100,000 annual salary).

Don’t let imposter syndrome stop you from applying. Great people sometimes don’t have the “right” experience. If you think that you’ll be amazing at this role then we encourage you to apply.