Loggerhead

Job Summary:
Loggerhead Risk Management LLC is a property and casualty insurer focused on providing tailored coverage for Florida homeowners. The Software Development Manager role involves leading a technical team while actively participating in software design, development, and delivery, emphasizing mentorship and high-quality outcomes.
Responsibilities:
• Hands-On Engineering & Architecture.
• Actively design, develop, and maintain production-grade software (backend and frontend).
• Contribute directly to complex feature development and system enhancements.
• Lead architectural decisions for microservices-based systems.
• Guide evolution of cloud-native applications in Azure (AKS, APIM, CosmosDB)
• Enforce clean architecture, coding standards, and performance best practices
• Lead and mentor a team of 6 resources across Software Development and DevOps
• Provide hands-on coaching through code reviews and pair programming
• Promote engineering excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement
• Establish secure coding practices and strong testing discipline
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Support delivery of customer-facing digital products
• Align engineering efforts with customer experience and business goals
• Identify and implement AI use cases for developer productivity and customer experience
• Drive adoption of CI/CD, test automation, and observability practices
• Oversee CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Partner with DevOps to improve deployment reliability and scalability.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 10+ years software development experience with strong hands-on coding
• 3+ years in a technical leadership role
• Expertise in Java and Spring Boot
• Experience with microservices and REST APIs
• Strong knowledge of NoSQL (CosmosDB, MongoDB) and JSON
• Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript frontend frameworks
• Experience with container technologies, preferably Kubernetes (AKS)
• CI/CD and DevOps practices with Git-based workflows
• Experience building externally facing web applications
• Strong secure coding practices
Preferred:
• Experience in P&C insurance or financial services
• Familiarity with AI/ML applied to business workflows
• Experience scaling high-transaction systems
Company:
Loggerhead offers insurance, property insurance and commercial insurance. Founded in 2022, the company is headquartered in Westmont, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.