Root Insurance

Lead strategic initiatives and cross-functional collaboration to improve business outcomes. | 10+ years software engineering experience with proven leadership of multi-team projects and excellent communication with engineers and senior leaders. | The Opportunity We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join and lead engineering at Root. As a Principal Engineer, you will be the primary technical leader within a product domain. You’ll work very closely with the software engineers on your team(s) to plan, design and deploy valuable software as well as the broad set of stakeholders to define the strategy and overall roadmap for the domain. Root is a “work where it works best” company. This means we will support you working in whatever location that works best for you across the US. Salary Range: $223,552 - $259,000 (Eligible for Competitive Bonus & Equity Offering) How You Will Make an Impact Drive end-to-end execution of large-scale, strategic initiatives that materially improve business outcomes (e.g., revenue, loss ratio, customer experience). Align leaders and teams around high-value initiatives, ensuring clarity on priorities, tradeoffs, and expected impact. Make and influence decisions on organizational structure, team topology, and resource allocation to enable successful execution of critical initiatives. Set and guide priorities across multiple teams and domains, balancing short-term delivery with long-term scalability and resilience. Lead cross-functional collaboration with Product, Data Science, and business stakeholders to translate strategy into coordinated execution. Establish and evolve technical standards, architecture, and best practices that scale across the organization. Communicate complex technical and strategic concepts to drive decision-making and alignment at the executive level. Coach and influence engineering leaders and senior ICs, raising the organization’s ability to identify opportunities and deliver business impact at scale. Coordinate with Staff Engineers across the organization to establish and evangelize standards and best practices. What You Will Need to Succeed 10+ years as a software engineer Proven leadership of projects involving multiple teams across functional domains Excellent communication skills both with engineering colleagues and senior business leaders As part of Root's interview process, we kindly ask that all candidates be on camera for virtual interviews. This helps us create a more personal and engaging experience for both you and our interviewers. Being on camera is a standard requirement for our process and part of how we assess fit and communication style, so we do require it to move forward with any applicant's candidacy. If you have any concerns, feel free to let us know once you are contacted. We’re happy to talk it through. Please see our Privacy Notice available HERE for more information on how we process your personal data. Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it is the policy of Root to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or candidate with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship for Root. The policy regarding requests for reasonable accommodation applies to all aspects of the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact recruiting@joinroot.com

Design, implement, and maintain software systems supporting pricing models and data teams, while collaborating on production support and incident resolution. | At least 2 years software engineering experience with strong collaboration and communication skills, plus a curious mindset for solving business problems. | The Opportunity At Root, we believe that disrupting the insurance industry starts with delivering best-in-class pricing segmentation—powered by leading-edge technology and automation. As a Software Engineer in the Pricing team, you’ll be instrumental in designing, implementing, and maintaining the systems that enable our pricing models to segment customers effectively at scale, and empower our Data Scientists, Actuaries and Analysts to develop, analyze and deploy pricing models efficiently. Salary Range: $126,300 - $145,000 (Bonus and LTI Eligible) Root is a “work where it works best” company. Meaning we will support you working in whatever location that works best for you across the US. We will continue to have our headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. How You Will Make an Impact Write, test, and deploy software solutions that are accurate and resilient Actively seek to understand our business and customers' problems to ensure you are developing effective solutions Collaborate closely with supportive teammates to share and improve your work Clearly communicate and document your work to help others learn Support your systems in production resolving incidents and issues that affect our customers Increase the effectiveness of your team by suggesting code and process improvements What You Will Need to Succeed 2+ years as a software engineer An eagerness to work closely with your team in a collaborative environment Curiosity in clearly defining the business and customer problems that need to be solved Excellent communication skills both with engineering colleagues and team stakeholders Bonus if You Have Experience in Ruby on Rails, Rust Experience with Amazon Web Services Experience in observability, such as Datadog Experience with premium calculation/rating systems As part of Root's interview process, we kindly ask that all candidates be on camera for virtual interviews. This helps us create a more personal and engaging experience for both you and our interviewers. Being on camera is a standard requirement for our process and part of how we assess fit and communication style, so we do require it to move forward with any applicant's candidacy. If you have any concerns, feel free to let us know once you are contacted. We’re happy to talk it through. Please see our Privacy Notice available HERE for more information on how we process your personal data. Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it is the policy of Root to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or candidate with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship for Root. The policy regarding requests for reasonable accommodation applies to all aspects of the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact recruiting@joinroot.com

Lead technical implementations, define strategy, coach team, contribute code, and lead incident response for system resiliency in marketing data workflows. | 4+ years software engineering with Python, Terraform, SQL, Spark; AWS and machine learning operations preferred. | The Opportunity We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team to drive marketing operations, finance, analytics, and data science enablement at Root. In this role, you will be responsible for guiding complex technical implementations with engineers on your team or aligned to your domain, supporting marketing and data science workflows and delivery, and working with a broad set of stakeholders to define the strategy and overall roadmap for the domain. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will help us make decisions and deliver software with lasting effects on the order of quarters and years. At Root we’ve built an end-to-end marketing solution with multiple data collection tools, scoring pipelines, and analytics interfaces. Our data scientists and marketing teams leverage this system to build marketing solutions across a wide array of channels. We’re looking to increase our capabilities in this space. Your role is to achieve platform level tooling to allow faster onboarding of data sources, integrate data with partners, create faster experimentation cycles, and build the analytics and data science data infrastructure to enable more rapid decision loops. Root is a technology company revolutionizing personal insurance with a pricing model based upon fairness and a modern customer experience. Using the power of telematics, Root offers customers auto insurance based on how they drive, not based solely on their demographics. With its technology-forward products, Root is working to fundamentally change an industry for the better. Salary Range: $136,500 - $155,000 (Bonus and LTI Eligible) Root is a “work where it works best” company. Meaning we will support you working in whatever location that works best for you across the US. We will continue to have our headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. How You Will Make an Impact Partner with Marketing, Product, Data Science, Analytics, and experts in the Insurance group to set the strategy for the quarters to come. Identify and socialize important technical initiatives that increase the effectiveness of our products, systems, and teams. Coach and guide engineers on your team in planning experiments and projects that align with our strategic objectives. Contribute code each development cycle to advance the impact of the team. Lead by example in incident response ensuring we take action to continuously improve the resiliency of our systems. Coordinate with Staff Engineers across the organization to establish and evangelize standards and best practices. What You Will Need to Succeed 4+ years as a software engineer Expertise in Python, Terraform, SQL, and Spark Expertise in Cloud Architecture - AWS Preferred Expertise in Machine Learning Operations (Preferred) Expertise in Data Driven Marketing (Preferred) Proven leadership of projects involving multiple teams across functional domains Excellent communication skills both with engineering colleagues and senior business leaders As part of Root's interview process, we kindly ask that all candidates be on camera for virtual interviews. This helps us create a more personal and engaging experience for both you and our interviewers. Being on camera is a standard requirement for our process and part of how we assess fit and communication style, so we do require it to move forward with any applicant's candidacy. If you have any concerns, feel free to let us know once you are contacted. We’re happy to talk it through. Please see our Privacy Notice available HERE for more information on how we process your personal data. Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it is the policy of Root to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or candidate with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship for Root. The policy regarding requests for reasonable accommodation applies to all aspects of the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact recruiting@joinroot.com.