Director II Software Engineering

Job Description:

Overview

Join an amazing team that is consistently recognized for our achievements and culture, including our most recent Forbes award of being one of America's Best Midsize Employers for 2025!

Position Summary:

The Director II Software Engineering will lead and manage high-performing software engineering teams, focusing on hiring, mentoring, and motivating staff to support a large group of related business and technology areas. Key responsibilities include driving budgeting and planning, building a strong engineering brand, and collaborating with product managers to estimate effort, prioritize the roadmap, and deliver high-quality applications. The role involves designing robust, modular, and scalable systems, leading teams hands-on to implement new features, and ensuring systems are secure, compliant, and up to date. The director will monitor key performance metrics, make data-driven decisions to optimize operations, and identify opportunities for system and process improvements. They will leverage CI/CD and process optimization to improve time to market, stay current with industry trends, and drive the adoption of best practices. Additionally, the director will assist in developing the technical vision, strategy, and innovation for Mercury’s application systems and communicate with executive leadership to represent the engineering organization and its vision.

Responsibilities

Essential Job Functions: 

• Build and manage highly motivated, high-performing software engineering teams by hiring strong talent, mentoring, and motivating the staff to support a large group of related business/technology areas, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and excellence.
• Build and maintain a strong engineering brand to attract and retain top talent.
• Drive budgeting and planning for their area of responsibility.
• Collaborate with product managers to estimate effort, prioritize the roadmap, plan, and deliver prioritized roadmap items to achieve desired outcomes.
• Review and translate product requirements into robust designs to ensure high-quality applications that are modular, configurable, maximize reuse, are fast, effective, user-friendly, secure, compliant, scalable, and maintainable to deliver desired outcomes.
• Lead the team(s) hands-on to deliver new or improved features per desired outcomes, addressing any impediments in delivering a high-quality solution within their scope of responsibility.
• Collaborate with other teams and stakeholders as necessary to ensure an overall successful delivery of the intended functionality.
• Review product requirements, design, and code to ensure the best quality and adherence to best practices.
• Ensure that all application system(s) for their area of responsibility are secure, compliant, performing per expectations, and up to date on the tech stack.
• Monitor and report on key performance metrics, making data-driven decisions to optimize engineering operations.
• Identify opportunities for system and process improvements.
• Drive the implementation of new features, large refactors/migrations, as well as process changes.
• Leverage CI/CD and process optimization to improve time to market.
• Stay up to date with the latest industry trends and technologies, and drive the adoption of best practices within the team.
• Assist in developing and driving the technical vision, strategy, and innovation for Mercury’s application systems.
• Assist in communicating with executive leadership to represent the engineering organization and its vision. 

Qualifications

Education: 

Minimum: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or other related fields Or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Preferred: 

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science 

Experience:

Minimum:

•  10+ years of Software engineering experience with 2+ years experience in Senior Engineering Management roles.

Preferred: 

• Experience in designing, building and rolling out enterprise level application suite with a focus on configurability and an API-first approach
• Experience building cloud based software platforms
• Experience migrating legacy system functionality and data

Knowledge and Skills:

Minimum: 

• Proficient in building and managing multiple large, highly motivated, high-performing software engineering team(s) by hiring strong talent, mentoring, and motivating staff.
• Proficient in hiring and developing strong next-level managers and leaders. Proficient in project management tasks like estimating, planning, executing, tracking, and reporting progress.
• Proficient in leading multiple engineering teams to deliver high-quality product solutions per roadmap on different technology stacks like mobile, web, backend, data, etc.
• Proficient in designing and implementing high-quality, complex, high-volume distributed application systems that are modular, configurable, maximize reuse, are fast, effective, user-friendly, secure, compliant, scalable, and maintainable.
• Proficient in leveraging technologies like APIs, messaging, data streaming, workflow, integration frameworks, microservices, containers, and cloud computing to implement best-in-class solutions. Maximizing use of open-source libraries where possible.
• Experienced in leveraging DevSecOps to improve engineering efficiency.
• Proficient in leveraging analytics data and experimentation to design and implement or improve systems to be fast, scalable, and effective.
• Experienced in driving high-value transformative initiatives like digital transformation, omni-channel system implementation, legacy system migration, cloud transformation, system optimization & modernization, product & services development, AI/ML adoption.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent ability to collaborate and influence stakeholders and senior leaders to address impediments, assist in making strategic decisions, and deliver desired results.
• Proficient in championing operational excellence and best practices with a focus on quality, performance, scalability, maintainability, and observability.
• Proficient in driving technical strategy, vision, and innovation for multiple functional/technology areas. 

Preferred: 

• Experience in building software for P&C Insurance Business.

About the Company

Why choose a career at Mercury?

At Mercury, we have been guided by our purpose to help people reduce risk and overcome unexpected events for more than 60 years. We are one team with a common goal to help others. Everyone needs insurance and we can’t imagine a world without it.

Our team will encourage you to grow, make time to have fun, and work together to make great things happen. We embrace the strengths and values of each team member. We believe in having diverse perspectives where everyone is included, to serve customers from all walks of life.

We care about our people, and we mean it. We reward our talented professionals with a competitive salary, bonus potential, and a variety of benefits to help our team members reach their health, retirement, and professional goals.

Learn more about us here: https://www.mercuryinsurance.com/about/careers

Perks and Benefits

We offer many great benefits, including:

• Competitive compensation
• Flexibility to work from anywhere in the United States for most positions
• Paid time off (vacation time, sick time, paid Company holidays, and volunteer hours)
• Incentive bonus programs (potential for holiday bonus, referral bonus, and performance-based bonus)
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance
• 401 (k) retirement savings plan with company match
• Engaging work environment
• Promotional opportunities
• Education assistance
• Professional and personal development opportunities
• Company recognition program
• Health and wellbeing resources, including free mental wellbeing therapy/coaching sessions, child and eldercare resources, and more

Mercury Insurance is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

Pay Range

USD $133,226.00 - USD $346,026.00 /Yr.