VP, Engineering - job 1 of 2

You could be a VP, Engineering anywhere. Why us?

• Join a pre-IPO startup with capital, traction and runway ($240M funded, $2T market size, and we are profitable💰)

• Report directly to our founder/CTO, Musawir Shah (ex-Nvidia, Y-Combinator alum)

• Opportunity to scale our users from 5M to 50M in the next few years

• Come lead a team of ~60 extremely talented full stack software engineers

• Work closely with seasoned peers from companies like Nvidia, Amazon, Microsoft, Andreessen Horowitz, SoFi, etc.

About the opportunity:

We are looking for a VP, Engineering to join our executive team! We hit a huge milestone in early 2024 by achieving profitability and have ambitious goals for the next few years — scale from 5M to 50M customers and become a $10B business. We hold an exceedingly high bar for talent, and finding the right VP, Engineering who will hire, develop and lead our engineering function intentionally and thoughtfully is the one of the most important levers in getting there. Our goal is not to hire quickly but to ensure that we are building a small and mighty team of the highest caliber people which will allow us to stay lean, agile, learn from brilliant colleagues, and accomplish big things together.

At Jerry, we are building the first AllCar™ super app to make car ownership affordable and accessible. We started with insurance in 2019, since then we’ve launched driving behavioral insights, car diagnostics, repair marketplace, and a GPT-4 chatbot and voicebot, and the first telematics-based insurance marketplace in the U.S. As we get closer to being the first, truly connected ecosystem for car owners, we are excited to bring on a VP of Engineering to lead our software engineering function. Reporting directly to our co-founder/CTO, Musawir Shah, you will be responsible for managing and scaling our engineering team, mentoring and developing our talented engineers, ensuring we are executing quickly and with very high quality across the entire engineering org. If you are looking for an opportunity to build products with massive real-world applications, make a big impact, and work with an exceptionally talented team, we'd love to hear from you!

How you will make an impact:

• Lead our entire engineering org (currently ~50 software engineers), directly supervising our engineering managers and tech/team leads. You will be responsible for ensuring high quality and high velocity execution from our engineering teams.

• Continuously raise the bar on our talent density by hiring stellar engineers and investing in the development of our engineering talent. Provide continuous feedback to our managers and team leads, and develop and implement a consistent framework and process for evaluating performance across different teams in our engineering org. 

• Ensure that our engineering teams are setting ambitious goals, and that they never stop learning and growing under your leadership. Unblock and push our teams when necessary. 

• Identify, evaluate, and optimize processes to maximize team output. Anticipate strategic and scaling-related challenges as we continue to grow.

• Foster a collaborative, ambitious, and outcome-driven culture.

• Facilitate and collaborate with cross functional partners including product, design, data science, marketing and operations.

Ideal profile:

• Masters degree or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related

• 15+ years engineering experience with progressively more responsibilities (ideally, you spent at least a few years as an IC in technically complex or demanding environment before you became a people manager)

• You have built and led very high-performing engineering teams at an early-to-mid stage startup (ideally, you have managed teams of at least 50+ engineers)

• You have strong technical mastery in software engineering but remain curious and committed to learning and improving your craft.

• You have a strong sense of urgency to deliver results and inspire the team to achieve beyond what they think is possible.

• You have a strong sense of ownership and accountability.

Our technical stack:

• Language and frameworks: Typescript: Nest.js, Next.js, React, React Native, Expo

• API: GraphQL

• DB: Postgres, DynamoDB, Clickhouse, Redis

• Infrastructure: Built on AWS, microservice architecture with containerized services deployed on ECS and EKS. Asynchronous processing functions running on Lambda.

While we appreciate your interest and application, only applicants under consideration will be contacted.

Jerry is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, reproductive health decisions or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other characteristics protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.

Jerry is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at recruiting@getjerry.com

About Jerry:

Jerry is America’s first and only AllCar™ app. We are redefining and radically improving how people manage owning a car, one of their most expensive and time-consuming assets. 

Backed by artificial intelligence and machine learning, Jerry simplifies and automates owning and maintaining a car while providing personalized services for all car owners' needs. We spend every day innovating and improving our AI-powered app to provide the best possible experience for our customers. From car insurance and financing to maintenance and safety, Jerry does it all.

We are the #1 rated and most downloaded app in our category with a 4.7 star rating in the App Store. We have more than 5 million customers — and we’re just getting started. 

Jerry was founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneurs and has raised more than $240 million in financing.

Join our team and work with passionate, curious and egoless people who love solving real-world problems. Help us build a revolutionary product that’s disrupting a massive market.