The posting, in Bestow's own words
archived Nov 14, 2026ABOUT BESTOW
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. Bestow uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit E-Verify.gov .
ABOUT THE TEAM
Bestow is hiring 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. We build and operate the systems that serve our enterprise carrier partners across the entire lifecycle of a life insurance policy, our consumers, and our employees. Engineering partners closely with Product Management, Experience Design, and Delivery Management to define and prioritize the roadmap and to hold our commitments to carrier partners and to the business. Our primary technologies are a microservices architecture in Golang, Python, and TypeScript on PostgreSQL, integrated over gRPC, REST, and asynchronous messaging, with event sourcing in our configuration and domain layers. We deploy and operate on Kubernetes in Google Cloud Platform. This role reports to the Director of Engineering and is open to Remote (US). #LI-REMOTE
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WHAT YOU'LL DO
Bestow is looking for an Engineering Manager to contribute in the following ways: • Lead your team's technical direction. Work with your team's senior and staff engineers to shape the design of the services you own across the configuration layer, the enrollment workflow engine, and the event-sourced domain services. Keep them scalable, reliable, secure, and performant, and make sure your roadmap ladders up to the broader platform strategy. • Favor repeatability and platform over bespoke work. Steer your team toward configuration-driven solutions so that each new carrier implementation costs less and ships faster than the last. • Collaborate beyond your reporting line. Partner with your two peer Engineering Managers and with teams outside IPC to deliver work that spans team boundaries. Clarify ownership of shared interfaces early, and escalate to your leadership when ambiguity threatens a date or becomes an incident. • Own your team's delivery commitments. Be accountable for what your team commits to carrier partners, including UAT handoff dates, and report status accurately and early to leadership. • Develop requirements early. Partner with Product, Delivery Management, Underwriting, and Compliance to surface missing requirements and cross-team dependencies during discovery, when a gap costs a conversation rather than a release. • Use data and metrics. Track delivery, quality, and system health for your team, and use that data to make technical and staffing decisions. Balance near-term commitments against long-term maintainability and security. • Grow your engineers. Run a healthy 1:1 and feedback cadence, set clear expectations against the career ladder, and write calibrated performance reviews. Build personalized growth plans, address individual or team challenges promptly, and develop senior engineers toward staff and tech lead roles. Keep knowledge spread across the team so a single departure does not put a partner commitment at risk. • Own hiring for your team. Act as hiring manager for your open requisitions, partner closely with recruiting, and raise the bar with every hire. Manage contractor and vendor partners as part of one team, with the same expectations and quality bar as full-time engineers. • Make the team faster. Run lightweight processes and ceremonies that help your team ship, and drop the ones that do not. Foster a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous learning alongside our Principal engineers and other engineering leaders. • Put AI to work in how your team builds. Lead adoption of AI development tooling (, Tag, ) and AI-first delivery practices such as AIDLC, and measure whether they are producing real leverage. Hold AI-generated code to standards that reduce technical debt, and coach engineers against the AI competencies in our career ladders. • Expand what AI tooling you can safely use. Work with Security, IT, and Compliance to propose compensating controls rather than stopping at a blocked request. Turn recurring questions from Product, Design, and new engineers into durable, self-serve knowledge. • Stay hands-on to be credible. Join design and architecture reviews, review code when it matters, and stay current on emerging technologies and what belongs on our platform. Occasionally ship some software!