Manager Software Development

About GAINSCO

Founded in 1978, GAINSCO offers property and casualty insurance with an emphasis on non-standard personal auto policies. It serves drivers nationwide by providing minimum-limits personal auto coverage, making insurance more accessible to a broader market. In In 2020 GAINSCO, Inc. and its subsidiaries were acquired, making a significant milestone that strengthened GAINSCO's ability to grow and expand its reach in the personal auto industry market while continuing to build on its decades of specialized expertise.

Join a team that is dedicated to supporting your professional growth and long-term success.

Who We Are

At GAINSCO, we are a team driven by passion, creativity, and a commitment to excellence. We celebrate achievements, encourage innovative thinking, and recognize the unique strengths each person brings. Our people truly set us apart.

If you're seeking a company where your contributions are valued, your efforts have a visible impact, and your dedication is recognized, take the next step in your career with us.

GAINSCO is seeking a Manager, Software Development to lead software development teams responsible for delivering high-quality technology solutions. This role provides leadership, technical guidance, and delivery accountability while fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, continuous improvement, and strong execution. The Manager, Software Development will balance hands-on technical oversight with people leadership, ensuring the team is aligned to business priorities, agile delivery practices, and long-term technology strategy.

What does a Manager, Software Development do at GAINSCO?

• Lead agile software development teams through sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and delivery execution.
• Coach, mentor, and develop software developers through regular feedback, goal setting, and professional development.
• Provide technical guidance on solution design, code quality, architecture alignment, security standards, and development best practices.
• Identify and remove blockers, resolve conflicts, and help teams stay focused on timely, high-quality delivery.
• Partner with business stakeholders, product owners, executives, and IT leaders to communicate progress, risks, priorities, and outcomes.
• Build a team culture focused on accountability, inclusion, collaboration, innovation, customer focus, and continuous improvement.

What is required?

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field required.

Certifications:

• Project management certification, such as PMP, CSM, or SAFe, is preferred.

Experience:

• 7+ years of progressive software development experience, including hands-on experience designing, coding, testing, and debugging software.
• 5+ years managing software developers in an agile software delivery environment.
• Demonstrated success leading agile development teams and delivering business-critical applications.
• Technical experience with object-oriented programming languages, database development, REST APIs, unit testing frameworks, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience promoting code quality, scalable design, maintainable systems, and modern software development best practices.
• Insurance or financial services industry experience is preferred.

Skills and abilities:

• Strong understanding of Agile principles and delivery frameworks, including Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe.
• Proven ability to lead, motivate, and develop technical teams while balancing strategic direction with tactical execution.
• Strong technical acumen in software engineering practices, modern development frameworks, architecture considerations, and code quality.
• Ability to set priorities, establish performance standards, and make sound trade-offs around speed, quality, and risk.
• Excellent problem-solving, facilitation, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.
• Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to influence teams, remove complexity and barriers, and manage change effectively.
• Customer-centric mindset with a focus on delivering reliable, scalable, and business-aligned technology solutions.

What else do you need to know?

• Hybrid
• Excellent benefits package medical & dental, vision insurance, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Parental Leave Policy
• 401K + Company Match
• PTO Plan + Paid Company determined Holidays.

Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (e.g. H-1B visa) for this opportunity

All offers are contingent upon a successful background investigation (including employment, education, criminal and DMV verification- when applicable) and a pre-employment drug test with results satisfactory to GAINSCO.

GAINSCO is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer