Next Insurance - Engineering Manager

Beyond SOF; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 201,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Beyond SOF in Palo Alto, CA is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and scale a skilled team of Backend Software Engineers. You will champion engineering excellence, own system design, and help deliver a reliable, scalable product that powers our customers.

You’ll mentor managers, drive roadmaps with Product and Architecture, enforce CI/CD and testing standards, and foster an environment where developers grow, ship confidently, and maintain high quality across services.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience with hands-on work building and scaling complex software systems.
• 3+ years of experience managing managers or large teams with a growth strategy.
• Strong product and architectural vision with ability to collaborate, communicate, and execute on that vision.
• Ability to build and evolve engineering processes enabling product delivery.
• Excellent communication to build trust, resolve conflicts, and provide feedback.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a group of engineers to deliver production-grade microservices.
• Oversee development of a business-critical system using modern backend technologies.
• Institute and enforce best practices for quality, architecture, and maintainability.
• Lead design reviews and balance features with technical debt.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Architects, and Tech Leads on roadmaps.
• Coach and mentor engineers, supporting their career development plans.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Architectural vision

Team collaboration

Remote teamwork

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Java/JVM

Kotlin

Job description

Experience level: Mid-senior
Experience required: 10 Years
Education level: Bachelor’s degree
Job function: Information Technology
Industry: Insurance
Compensation: $201,000 -$250,000
Total position: 1
Relocation assistance: Limited assistance
Visa : Only US citizens and Greencard holders

Please refer to the job insights section for the detailed comments/infor about the role.

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and scale our skilled team of Backend Software Engineers. Are you an engineering manager who is passionate about developers’ and managers’ professional growth? Do you care about the engineering processes that empower engineers to thrive at their job, all while delivering an amazing product? NEXT constantly strives to improve our processes, best practices, and engineering standards to facilitate our rapid scaling.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and grow a group of passionate, talented engineers
• Lead the development of a business-critical system using modern backend technologies and methodologies
• Ship with your group stable production grade microservices
• Institute development best practices to ensure the team produces high-quality, well-architected, and maintainable code
• Lead code and architecture design reviews, ensuring there is a healthy balance between features and technical debt
• Collaborate on roadmaps with Product Managers, Architects, Tech Leads, and other stakeholders to ensure the group has clear direction and priorities
• Manage employee career development by providing coaching and mentoring, following our continuous performance loop, and collaborating with employees on their personal development plan

What We Need:

• 10+ years of experience as an engineer yourself with hands-on experience developing and scaling complex software systems, including building microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and tests automation
• 3+ years of experience managing managers or fast-growing teams with the ability to mentor and develop individuals with a proven scaling strategy
• A strong product and architectural vision with a demonstrated ability to collaborate, communicate, advocate, and execute on that vision
• Ability to build and evolve engineering processes that help teams successfully deliver the product
• Communication skills that help you to build trust, resolve conflicts, and provide feedback to your team

Unstoppable Qualities:

• Experience working with a startup and/or SaaS product
• You have experience with working with remote teams
• Experience with the Java/JVM stack and familiarity with Kotlin

Tech stack:

• Cloud infrastructure - AWS: EKS, EC2, Lambda, SQS, S3, Kinesis, RDS, Elasticache
• Container / Orchestration: Docker on top of K8s (pronounced Kubernetes).
• Language / Runtime: Backend services - Kotlin (on top of the JVM - Java VM). ML services - python, FE - Angular & Node.js.
• Microservice framework: Dropwizard using Guice & JDBI.
• DB: MySQL, Elasticsearch, Neo4J, Redis
• Devops: Jenkins, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana. Jaeger
• Full CI/CD