Senior Manager, Back End Engineering

🕒 September 14

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $249k - $367k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Quanata

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201 - 500 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Healthcare • Marketing

Quanata is a company that empowers the insurers of tomorrow with AI-assisted modeling capabilities, real-time telematics solutions, and risk-based acquisition innovations, focusing on context-based insurance solutions. They provide advanced contextual and behavioral risk modeling, digital experiences, and telematics-driven rewards programs. Quanata is backed by industry leader State Farm and utilizes Silicon Valley talent and technology to drive innovation in the insurance sector. Their platform offers cloud-native technology solutions for insurers, including telematics-focused consumer-facing apps. Based in San Francisco, CA, Quanata aims to modernize claims processes and enhance underwriting and marketing capabilities for market-leading insurers and innovative insurtechs.

📋 Description

• Lead a team of mid-level, senior, and staff software engineers responsible for core policy, billing, and financial ledger platforms • Provide people leadership, technical guidance, and architectural guidance for scalable, secure, high-performing back end systems • Coach and develop engineers • Partner with Product Management, Program Management, engineering leaders, and teams across the company to align technical execution with business goals and drive product delivery • Improve engineering processes, team efficiency, and effectiveness • Set and manage expectations with leadership and external stakeholders • Drive team performance against KPIs for throughput, product quality, security, and performance • Lead sprint and roadmap planning, capacity modeling, and resourcing efforts • Stay current on industry trends and drive adoption of engineering best practices

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience, or equivalent relevant experience • 8–10 years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years of engineering management experience • Experience with personnel development and performance management • Project management experience • Experience with sprint and roadmap planning, capacity modeling, and resourcing • Strong technical architecture fluency, focused on back end systems • Strong enterprise partnership and stakeholder management skills • Executive-ready written communication skills • Bonus: Experience in insurance, banking, or investing • Bonus: Experience with AI-assisted engineering practices, including spec-driven development, context and harness engineering, and autonomous agentic workflows • Bonus: Familiarity with Go, Python, TypeScript, GraphQL, gRPC, Postgres, Mongo, Snowflake, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance and supplemental income plans for employees and dependents • Headspace app subscription • Monthly wellness allowance • 401(k) Plan with company match • One-time $2,000 payment for in-home office equipment and furniture • Fully provisioned MacBook Pro • Four weeks of PTO accrued in the first year • Twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents • Up to $5,000 annually for professional learning, continuing education and career development • LinkedIn Learning subscriptions • Coaching opportunities through BetterUp • Remote-first work arrangement • Occasional travel is not required for most positions • Employees in the San Francisco Bay Area or Providence, Rhode Island may commute to local offices as desired

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