ABOUT BESTOW

Bestow is the leading digital platform for life insurance. As both a direct-to-consumer destination and an infrastructure provider, Bestow is on a mission to make life insurance accessible to millions of underserved families. 

We strive for work-life balance and believe happy employees make for better experiences and happier customers. It’s a model that helped us land on Forbes’ Best Startup Employers 2021 and 2022 lists!

Bestow is seeking an Engineering Manager for our Enrollment platform group. This group consists of three areas - maintaining and enhancing our existing insurance platform capabilities, data vendor integrations, and building internal, self-service tools for the platform to scale faster. An Engineering Manager for one or more of the teams in this group will mentor and guide engineers of all levels on a distributed team, work with multiple product managers to align platform dependencies and work to hire additional team members, and evolve team structure. While this is not a role that is expected to contribute code, it will require depth in both technical knowledge and people/team management.

Engineering Management at Bestow is based on two primary responsibilities: People and Software Delivery. 

You accomplish business goals by building a high-performing, high-leverage engineering team. You can create an environment for your team to be highly motivated and engaged. You are successful when your team is fully staffed and equipped with the right skills and growing careers.

You will help develop core practices to manage effective software delivery, such as decomposing and scope work in achievable increments. You constructively push back on work that is under-scoped or unattainable deadlines.

Open to Austin, TX, Dallas, TX or Remote (US) #LI-Remote

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Your team delivers software at a predictable schedule and sustainable pace
• Helping your team resolve bottlenecks and blockers and work collaboratively across teams 
• Communicating proactively on delays of the estimated delivery
• Facilitating and contributing to architectural conversations
• Cultivating a successful team aligned to company culture
• Performing regular talent reviews and collaborate with engineers on professional development roadmaps
• Coaching and mentoring your team, including weekly 1:1s
• Recruiting for your team by sourcing talent and interviewing engineers
• Identifying and craft improvements to engineering practices (ex. interview process, code-review process)

ABOUT YOU

• 2+ years of engineering management experience
• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent self-study
• Well versed in modern SDLC methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban, and aligned to the agile principles
• Experience with both dynamic and strongly-typed languages (we use Python and Go)
• Experience with relational databases (we use PostgreSQL) 
• Experience with Cloud Hosting providers (we’re on Google Cloud Platform)
• Initiative and motivation to make things happen

TOTAL REWARDS

• Competitive salary plus stock options
• Performance bonus
• Generous PTO
• Flexible schedule and work/life balance
• 100% company-paid health, dental, and vision insurance
• Office snacks and weekly team lunches
• Team building events and activities

We value diversity at Bestow. We hire, recruit, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We understand the importance of creating a safe and comfortable work environment and encourage individualism and authenticity in every member of our team.