Engineering Manager

🔥 15 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $180k - $205k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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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 the technical direction of a platform configuration and implementation team • Shape services across the configuration layer, enrollment workflow engine, and event-sourced domain services • Keep systems scalable, reliable, secure, and performant while aligning roadmaps with platform strategy • Steer configuration-driven, repeatable solutions for carrier implementations • Collaborate with peer Engineering Managers and teams outside IPC on cross-team delivery • Own delivery commitments to carrier partners, including UAT handoff dates • Report delivery status accurately and early to leadership • Partner with Product, Delivery Management, Underwriting, and Compliance to identify requirements and dependencies during discovery • Track delivery, quality, and system-health metrics to inform technical and staffing decisions • Conduct 1:1s, provide feedback, set career expectations, write performance reviews, and create growth plans • Develop senior engineers toward staff and technical-lead roles • Own hiring, partner with recruiting, and manage contractor and vendor partners • Run effective engineering processes and ceremonies • Foster technical excellence, innovation, and continuous learning • Lead adoption of AI development tooling including Claude Code, Claude Tag, and GitHub Copilot • Measure AI tooling leverage and maintain standards that reduce technical debt • Work with Security, IT, and Compliance on controls for AI tooling • Create durable self-service knowledge for recurring questions • Participate in design and architecture reviews, review code, and occasionally ship software • Report to the Director of Engineering • Lead a team of 6 to 10 engineers

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience • Typically 6+ years of professional software development experience • Typically 2+ years of engineering management experience, or equivalent experience leading a team of software engineers • Proven ability to design, build, and operate distributed systems and microservices architectures • Experience with event-driven and event-sourced designs • Golang and/or Python backend services experience • API design using gRPC and REST • Asynchronous messaging patterns • Strong PostgreSQL experience, including schema design, data modeling, and query performance • Cloud platform experience, preferably Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes • Experience introducing AI development tools into a team's daily workflow with measurable results • Experience across design, planning, delivery, continuous delivery, release strategy, monitoring, and continuous improvement • Ability to reason about frontend composition, data platform, and infrastructure • Ability to read and contribute to a codebase and engage in architectural decisions • Advocacy for automated testing and test-driven development • Ability to define and track key metrics, meet committed dates, and meet SLAs • Proven ability to hire, mentor, and retain engineers • Excellent written and verbal communication • Life insurance, annuities, or another regulated-industry background is desirable, not required • Enterprise or carrier-partner implementation experience under contractual dates is desirable, not required • Must reside in the contiguous 48 United States • Must be authorized to work in the United States; E-Verify used for newly hired employees

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • 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 and WFH options • State-of-the-art Dallas office option • Employee-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives • Substantial growth opportunities • Work/life balance policies and managers

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