Engineering Director

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Define and steer the technical vision for the Core Insurance Product Configuration & Enrollment Platform.

• Align the technical strategy of the team with Bestow's overall platform strategy and business goals.

• Encourage configuration-driven consistency rather than custom partner solutions.

• Provide architectural direction across the configuration layer, enrollment workflow engine, and event-sourced domain services.

• Lead cross-functional initiatives that involve teams outside of the direct reporting structure.

• Manage and clarify roles and responsibilities between interdependent teams.

• Represent Bestow in technical due diligence and vendor negotiations with carrier partners, vendors, and technology firms.

• Assess new technologies for potential platform integration.

• Promote technical excellence, innovation, and a culture of continuous learning.

• Ensure delivery commitments to carrier partners, including user acceptance testing (UAT) handoff deadlines, and report progress to executive leadership.

• Collaborate with Product, Delivery Management, Underwriting, and Compliance to uncover requirements and dependencies.

• Oversee incident management, root-cause analysis, systemic incident reviews, and subsequent actions.

• Ensure service-owning teams manage their services and the supporting infrastructure.

• Develop scalable testing strategies for rules and configuration.

• Advocate for data and metrics to inform technical decisions and maintain system health.

• Convert business requirements and partner roadmaps into technical strategies and staffing plans.

• Lead, mentor, and develop Engineering Managers and their leadership teams.

• Create high-performing teams that embody ownership, accountability, and psychological safety.

• Conduct performance management, career development paths, scorecards, calibration, feedback, and growth planning.

• Maintain knowledge depth and redundancy within the team.

• Act as the hiring manager, overseeing recruiting processes and hiring timelines.

• Manage relationships with contractors and vendor partners.

• Establish efficient engineering processes and ceremonies.

• Guide the adoption of AI-augmented development strategies.

• Promote the use of Claude Code, Claude Tag, GitHub Copilot, and AIDLC methodologies.

• Set standards for AI-generated code, testing, and documentation.

• Collaborate with Security, IT, and Compliance to implement safe AI tooling controls.

• Mentor engineers and managers on AI competencies.

• Create self-service knowledge resources utilizing AI.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

• Over 8 years of professional experience in software development.

• At least 5 years of progressive experience in engineering management, including managing other managers.

• Experience leading 2-3 Engineering Managers and a team of approximately 20-30 engineers across various teams.

• Proven ability to design, build, and operate distributed systems and microservices architectures at scale.

• Familiarity with event-driven and event-sourced designs.

• Extensive experience with relational databases, especially PostgreSQL, encompassing schema design, data modeling, and performance optimization.

• Strong proficiency in Golang and/or Python for backend services.

• Experience in API design using gRPC and REST.

• Knowledge of asynchronous messaging patterns.

• Recent experience transforming at least one team to fully adopt agentic engineering practices.

• In-depth expertise across the software development lifecycle.

• Ability to understand frontend composition, data platforms, and infrastructure.

• Capability to contribute to team codebases and participate in architectural decisions.

• Strong advocate for automated testing and test-driven development.

• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes.

• Ability to define and monitor key metrics, accountability, committed dates, and SLAs.

• Skill in managing competing priorities across multiple teams and partner commitments.

• Talent for attracting, hiring, mentoring, and retaining engineering talent.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience in life insurance, annuities, or regulated industries is a significant advantage.

• Experience in delivering implementations for enterprise or carrier partners within contractual timelines is a strong plus.

• Must be located in the contiguous 48 United States.

• Must meet U.S. employment eligibility and visa sponsorship guidelines.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity.

• Flexible paid time off.

• Parental leave programs.

• 100% paid-premium option for medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Lifestyle stipend promoting physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.

• Flexible work-from-home policy.

• Options for remote and work-from-home arrangements.

• State-of-the-art office located in Dallas’ Deep Ellum for those who prefer an office environment.

• Employee-driven initiatives for diversity, equity, and inclusion.