Bestow is the leading end-to-end life insurance SaaS company partnering with top carriers to modernize and transform the way they do business. Backed by NEA.
About the role
The Director of Engineering for Insurance Product Configuration & Enrollment Platform Core will be a highly technical, strategic engineering leader who is comfortable owning outcomes that span teams you manage and teams you do not. You are comfortable leading cross-team initiatives, even with teams who do not report to you. You understand distributed systems deeply, you can hold a firm line on quality in a regulated domain, and you are energized by building the managers and engineers on your team.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of professional software development experience
- 5+ years of progressive engineering management experience, including managing managers. You will lead 2–3 Engineering Managers and roughly 20–30 engineers across multiple teams
- Proven ability to design, build, and operate distributed systems and microservices architectures at scale, including event-driven and event-sourced designs
- Extensive experience with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, including schema design, data modeling, and query performance
- Strong background in Golang and/or Python backend services, API design (gRPC, REST), and asynchronous messaging patterns
More about this role
Life insurance is one of the world's most important products. It's also one of the hardest to build, distribute, and modernize. Bestow exists to change that.
Bestow is a leading vertical technology platform serving some of the largest and most innovative life insurers. Our platform unifies the fragmented, legacy value chain, enabling carriers to launch products in weeks instead of years. Carriers choose us to scale and operate at unprecedented speed, powered by AI and automation.
Bestow isn't selling policies. We're building the infrastructure that helps an entire industry move faster, reach more people, and deliver on its promise.
Backed by leading investors (Goldman Sachs, Hedosophia, NEA, Valar, 8VC) and trusted by major carriers, Bestow is powered by a team that moves with precision, purpose, and heart. If you want to help reimagine a centuries-old industry with lasting impact, join us.
Bestow offers flexible remote/hybrid work, meaningful benefits, equity, and substantial growth opportunities.
The Engineering team is the core of Bestow, driving all technology for our SaaS platform that empowers insurance carriers. We build and operate the systems that serve our enterprise...
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