[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Bestow

Role Description

Bestow is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a platform configuration and implementation team. The Engineering team is the core of Bestow, driving all technology for our SaaS platform that empowers life insurance carriers.

• Lead your team's technical direction.
• Favor repeatability and platform over bespoke work.
• Collaborate beyond your reporting line.
• Own your team's delivery commitments.
• Develop requirements early.
• Use data and metrics.
• Grow your engineers.
• Own hiring for your team.
• Make the team faster.
• Put AI to work in how your team builds.
• Expand what AI tooling you can safely use.
• Stay hands-on to be credible.

Qualifications

• A technical, people-first engineering leader.
• Experienced engineering manager.
• Solid in distributed systems.
• Fluent in our stack.
• An advocate for agentic engineering.
• Experienced across the full lifecycle.
• Credible across boundaries you do not own.
• Able to go deep when it matters.
• Serious about testing.
• Organized under competing priorities.
• A builder of teams.
• A clear communicator.
• Desirable, not required: Life insurance, annuities, or another regulated-industry background.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Typically 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of engineering management experience.
• Proven ability to design, build, and operate distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Strong PostgreSQL experience covering schema design, data modeling, and query performance.
• Cloud platform experience, with a preference for Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity based on role.
• Policies and managers that support work/life balance, like flexible paid time off and parental leave programs.
• 100% paid-premium option for medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Lifestyle stipend to support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.
• Flexible work-from-home policy and open to remote.
• Remote and WFH options, as well as a beautiful, state-of-the-art office in Dallas’ Deep Ellum.
• Employee-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.