Engineering Manager - Backend; Go

Bestow Engineering Manager

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 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 responsible for all technology for Bestow and the Bestow Platform. We serve employees, consumers, and enterprise customers. In addition to building software, we integrate and manage many third‑party products used by employees and as part of the platform. Our major functional teams are product engineering, infrastructure, IT, data & analytics, and program management. Engineering works closely with product management and design to define and prioritize the product roadmap.

As an Engineering Manager for the Post Issue Team, you will lead a team of Backend Software Engineers. You will partner with Product Managers, Underwriters, Design and our external partners to develop and support solutions to power our digital life insurance enrollment experience. You will also collaborate with teams across Bestow to plan and execute the product roadmap. Our system runs on Kubernetes in Google Cloud Platform and is composed of several microservices written in Go that integrate using gRPC, REST, and async messaging patterns.

You will share responsibility for operating our workloads on these platforms.

This role is open to remote candidates.

This is a player/coach role that will have direct reports with 20% of your time spent contributing to the production level code.

All Eng leaders at Bestow remain hands‑on in the code and actively participate in system design and architecture decisions.

Regularly review pull requests, providing thoughtful feedback that elevates code quality.

Partners with engineers on complex technical challenges, offering guidance without micromanaging.

Willing to drive large initiatives.

Orchestrates effective engineering ceremonies that promote collaboration and continuous improvement.

Creates personalized growth plans for each team member, identifying strengths and development areas.

Provides regular, constructive feedback and creates opportunities for engineers to expand their skills.

Balances technical excellence with business objectives.

Demonstrates sound judgment when making technical trade‑offs.

Communicates complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

The ideal candidate embraces being both a technical contributor and a people leader, finding fulfillment in writing code while helping others grow into their full potential.

An Engineering Manager at Bestow is a highly technical leader who thrives at the intersection of people and technology. Combines deep technical expertise with exceptional leadership skills to drive engineering excellence while developing talent.

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience required
• 8+ years professional experience in the software industry, with at least 1 years of management experience while keeping your coding skills strong.
• Professional experience with Go or Python is preferred
• Comfortable using Docker for local software development
• Familiar with modern, scalable system architectures (load balancing, horizontal scaling, etc.)
• Experience with Postgre
  
  SQL or other relational databases (comfortable writing ANSI SQL)
• Familiar with API design tools/languages…