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Engineering Director

Bestow· Engineering
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Remote$225k - $280kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Director-level engineering leadership for Insurance Product Configuration & Enrollment Platform Core, focusing on strategic technical leadership, delivery excellence, team development, and agentic engineering in a remote US-based setting.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the technical vision for Core aligned with platform strategy and business objectives.
  • Push configuration-driven repeatability to reduce carrier implementation costs and accelerate shipping.
  • Provide architectural guidance across configuration layer, enrollment workflow engine, and event-sourced domain services for scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
  • Lead initiatives across teams that do not report to you and influence at vertical/org levels.
  • Own interfaces and resolve ownership ambiguity to prevent incidents or delays.
  • Represent Bestow with carrier partners, vendors, and technology companies in technical due diligence and negotiations.
  • Stay current with emerging technologies and evaluate platform fit.
  • Foster a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous learning.
  • Own delivery commitments to carrier partners, including UAT handoffs, and report status to executives.
  • Collaborate across Product, Delivery Management, Underwriting, and Compliance to surface missing requirements and dependencies.
  • Own incident posture with root-cause analysis and systemic improvement.
  • Ensure teams own their services and supporting infrastructure in collaboration with platform engineering.
  • Build scalable testing strategies for rules and configuration, including automated coverage and regression testing.
  • Champion data and metrics for technical decisions and system health.
  • Translate business requirements into clear technical strategies and staffing plans.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of professional software development experience.
  • 5+ years of progressive engineering management experience, including managing managers (leading 2–3 Engineering Managers and ~20–30 engineers).
  • Proven ability to design, build, and operate distributed systems and microservices at scale (event-driven and event-sourced).
  • Extensive experience with PostgreSQL (schema design, data modeling, performance).
  • Strong background in Golang and/or Python backend services, API design (gRPC, REST), and asynchronous messaging.
  • Advocate for agentic engineering with experience transforming at least one team.
  • Deep expertise across the software development lifecycle (inception to continuous delivery and monitoring).
  • Ability to reason about adjacent boundaries (frontend, data, infrastructure) and negotiate interfaces.
  • Technical contributor able to engage in architectural decisions when needed.
  • Advocate for automated testing and test-driven development for configuration and rules at scale.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (prefer Google Cloud Platform) and Kubernetes.
  • Ability to define and track key metrics, drive accountability, and meet SLAs.
  • Highly organized with ability to manage competing priorities across multiple teams.
  • Proven ability to attract, hire, mentor, and retain engineering talent (senior engineers and early-career managers).
  • Excellent written and verbal communication (can explain complex systems to executives, partners, and engineers).
  • Life insurance/regulated-industry experience or enterprise/carrier implementations under contractual dates is a plus.

Skills

Required:Technical leadershipDistributed systems designPostgreSQLGolang/Python backendCloud & KubernetesTesting & CI/CDLeadership & people managementCommunication

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity based on role
  • Policies and managers that support work/life balance (flexible PTO and parental leave)
  • 100% paid-premium medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Lifestyle stipend for wellbeing
  • Flexible work-from-home policy and remote-friendly options
  • Remote and on-site office option in Dallas, TX
  • Employee-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Bestow

The leading new business and admin software for life carriers

Bestow is the leading end-to-end life insurance SaaS company partnering with top carriers to modernize and transform the way they do business.

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