Software Development Team Leader

Description

We’re looking for a hands-on, forward-thinking Software Development Team Leader to lead a team of experts building our next-generation Analytics & Modeling Service. You’ll guide the team from ideas and technical design through delivery, while evaluating emerging technologies and shaping how AI is adopted across our products and engineering practices. If you enjoy turning innovative ideas into scalable solutions, influencing both what we build and how we build it, and working with a collaborative team, we’d love to meet you.

What you’ll do

Lead the team’s day-to-day work, guiding projects from technical design through successful delivery

Evaluate emerging tools, frameworks, and architectures through focused POCs, and turn successful experiments into production-ready solutions

Drive the adoption of AI-assisted engineering across coding, testing, and code review, while measuring its impact on quality and delivery speed

Establish best practices and guardrails for AI-driven development, and promote them across the R&D organization

Partner with Product, Data Science, and Architecture to build AI-powered capabilities into the Analytics & Modeling Service

Own the architecture, APIs, and data models of the team’s components, balancing performance, scalability, reliability, and cost

Deliver product capabilities and build the infrastructure required to support performance and scale

Work directly with insurers’ business and IT teams to understand requirements, discuss architecture, integration, deployment, security, and infrastructure, demonstrate new capabilities, and incorporate customer feedback into the product

Hire, onboard, mentor, and develop team members and future leaders as the group grows

Foster a collaborative, open, and supportive culture

Requirements

You’ll do it using

3–5 years of proven experience as a team lead in a fast-paced environment

Strong proficiency in Java, with hands-on experience in performance and scale of Java applications on cloud services

Strong system design skills

Proven experience designing scalable, distributed, cloud-based systems, including services, APIs, data flows and infrastructure, and taking them from design to production

Experience with relational databases (advantage

JPA / Hibernate / EclipseLink)

Deep understanding of cloud platforms (advantage

AWS

EC2, S3, ECS autoscaling, RDS)

Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor) and a clear view on how they change engineering work

A track record of evaluating new technologies and leading POCs to production adoption

Advantage

Experience building with LLMs / GenAI (APIs, agents, RAG, MCP, prompt and evaluation practices)

Experience in customer-facing technical work, such as requirements gathering, technical discussions with client IT teams, or product demos

Experience defining engineering processes or methodologies at team or group level

Familiarity with Spark

Frontend knowledge (React, JavaScript, TypeScript).

You’ll excel by

Being curious and quick to experiment, comfortable with ambiguity and with moving fast from idea to POC to decision

Bringing a pragmatic, evidence-based approach to new technology

knowing when to adopt, when to wait, and when to drop

Collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams and communicating ideas clearly

Being comfortable in front of customers, able to explain complex technical topics clearly to both technical and business audiences

Using strong analytical and critical-thinking skills to solve complex technical challenges

Being a motivated self-learner who drives innovation and raises the bar for others

Thinking like an owner, taking initiative and owning the success of our new product

Position Intro

Earnix is the first AI company purpose-built for insurance decisioning, providing the industry with the intelligence, governance, and decisioning agility to drive profitable growth, improve resilience, and operate with speed and precision in a rapidly changing risk environment. A trusted provider of production-grade AI and decisioning technology, Earnix builds on more than 25 years of experience in artificial intelligence risk, pricing, rating, analytics, and decisioning. Earnix brings vertical AI into the workflows and decisions that shape insurance performance across insurers’ pricing, underwriting, claims, customer engagement, retention, and other insurers high-value insurance moments. Earnix’s AIOS enables insurers to orchestrate intelligence across the insurance decision lifecycle and drive governed, real-time decisions that deliver measurable business outcomes. Earnix is headquartered in Boston, MA and has been innovating for insurers and banks since 2001 with customers in over 35 countries across six continents and offices in the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Israel.