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Bestow

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

💳 Fintech

Consulting • Healthcare • Fintech

Bestow is a leading life insurance SaaS platform provider that offers innovative technology solutions for life and annuity insurance carriers. By providing tools such as digital applications, customizable underwriting engines, and comprehensive customer portals, Bestow helps streamline the entire insurance process from quoting to policy administration. The company focuses on enhancing the speed and efficiency of insurance operations, enabling carriers to launch new products swiftly and optimize their customer service capabilities.

📋 Description

• Lead a team of Software Engineers building the identity and access management foundation for Bestow’s digital life insurance enrollment experience • Spend approximately 20% of time writing production code • Lead the team, shape architecture, and partner with Product Managers, Designers, and enterprise partners • Operate Kubernetes workloads in Google Cloud Platform • Build IAM platform scalability so enterprise customers can onboard without engineering intervention while meeting security and compliance requirements • Stay involved in system design, architecture decisions, pull request reviews, code quality, testing, documentation, automation, and quality gates • Debug and troubleshoot with engineers and lead diagnostic work • Identify technical debt, plan remediation, and advocate for dedicated time • Evolve authorization for multi-tenant enterprise customers • Separate authentication and authorization for independent scaling, caching, and policy enforcement • Design token strategies and manage related vendor relationships • Build automated user provisioning and de-provisioning • Address biometric re-authentication, extended sessions, layered access policies, and regulatory audit requirements • Participate in the IAM team’s weekly on-call rotation • Own observability, monitoring, alerting, uptime, incident metrics, and incident response • Recruit, interview, hire, onboard, coach, and develop engineers • Conduct 1:1s, create development plans, provide stretch assignments, and address team conflict • Set expectations, provide feedback, conduct performance reviews, and address underperformance • Translate product requirements into technical plans, estimate capacity and timelines, and deliver against estimates • Own the team roadmap and daily prioritization • Track delivery metrics and report them in monthly operating reviews • Set IAM’s technical direction and translate company strategy into team-level work through RFCs, PRD input, and tickets • Communicate status, progress, and risk to stakeholders, senior leadership, and external partners • Connect technical work to business outcomes and make cost-benefit trade-offs explicit • Model AI coding tool usage, establish review/testing/attribution standards, and develop the team’s AI practices • Create room for experimentation and learning from failed experiments

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software experience • 1+ years directly managing a team of Software Engineers while staying hands-on in the code • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience • Professional experience with Go, or another statically typed backend language with a clear path to Go • Production experience with cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes or a comparable container orchestration platform • Experience with PostgreSQL or another relational database and ANSI SQL • Experience designing modern distributed systems and APIs • Experience with Docker for local development • Experience with Protocol Buffers, OpenAPI, or Swagger • Deep understanding of the full software development lifecycle, continuous integration, and release strategy • Hands-on experience using agentic coding tools on a production codebase • Ability to track key metrics and meet established Service Level Agreements • Ability to break down ambiguous technical problems and identify risks early • Ability to pick up and ship work in the team's codebases • E-Verify employment eligibility confirmation for newly hired employees • IAM experience with Auth0, Okta, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, multi-tenant architecture, RBAC/ABAC/policy-based access control, SAML 2.0, OIDC, and SCIM is highly desired but not required • Direct experience with Claude Code is preferred; comparable experience with Cursor or GitHub Copilot transfers well

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity based on role • Flexible paid time off • Parental leave programs • 100% paid-premium option for medical, dental, and vision insurance • Lifestyle stipend supporting physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing • Flexible work-from-home policy • Remote work options • State-of-the-art office in Dallas’ Deep Ellum for those who prefer an office setting • Employee-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives • Bonus compensation