Bestow

Backend Engineer

• This is a player / coach role that will have FTE and contractor 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 participating in system design and architecture decisions
• Regularly reviews 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

Engineering Manager – Backend, Python

Frontend Engineer

• Use a cutting-edge frontend platform to develop scalable experiences, and make exciting contributions to the platform itself
• Design, develop, and optimize user interfaces using React/Remix, ensuring they are accessible, intuitive, responsive, and user-friendly across different devices.
• Collaborate with backend engineers to maintain state-of-the-art GraphQL infrastructure
• Work closely with designers, backend engineers, and product managers to build and iterate on platform features and ensure alignment on user needs and technical feasibility.
• Implement unit tests and integration tests to ensure code quality and stability.
• Participate in code reviews to maintain high standards.
• Manage build and deployment pipelines using NX and CircleCI to streamline continuous integration, testing, and deployment processes, ensuring fast and reliable delivery of frontend updates.

Frontend Software Engineer II

Product Manager

• Lead complex product initiatives across your area
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate customer needs and business objectives into compelling product features and experiences
• Develop and maintain product roadmaps that align with company strategy, balancing short-term wins with long-term vision
• Define success metrics and build data-driven feedback loops to measure product performance and inform future decisions
• Identify opportunities for product improvements through customer research, market analysis, and competitive intelligence
• Partner with Engineering, Design, Marketing, and Operations to ensure successful product delivery and adoption
• Influence stakeholders across the organization by effectively communicating product vision, strategy, and outcomes
• Coach and mentor junior product managers while modeling Bestow's operating principles

Senior Product Manager

• You will be developing core services primarily using Golang and PostgreSQL
• We're a startup with a long product roadmap. You will help and accelerate foundational services to scale the output of our product teams.
• Resolve issues with previously delivered features.
• Write unit and integration tests for code you create.
• Peer review code developed by others on your team.
• Ensure software is secure, maintainable.
• Work with designers, product managers, and other engineers
• Encourage automation and continuous improvement.

Senior Backend Engineer, Go

• You will be developing web services using Python + PostgreSQL, Golang, and a Java based Drools rules engine.
• We're a startup with a long product roadmap and multiple partners. You will help build new platform capabilities that scale with our business.
• We work remotely, so effective written communication and teleconference skills are essential.

Staff Backend Engineer – Implementation, Platform Configuration

• You will be developing core services primarily using Golang and PostgreSQL
• You will help and accelerate foundational services to scale the output of our product teams.
• Resolve issues with previously delivered features.
• Write unit and integration tests for code you create.
• Peer review code developed by others on your team.
• Ensure software is secure, maintainable.
• Work with designers, product managers, and other engineers
• Encourage automation and continuous improvement.

Staff Backend Engineer, Go

Data Analyst

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of analysts at multiple career levels, building skills in SQL, dbt, data modeling, and stakeholder communication.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, design reviews, and PR reviews, providing timely and actionable technical feedback that accelerates analyst growth.
• Own the full hiring lifecycle for analytics roles, from defining job requirements through offer, and build onboarding programs that accelerate ramp time.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence, experimentation, documentation, and continuous improvement.
• Make decisions as a team: the systems you build will be maintained and extended by others, so defensible design decisions and high collaboration are non-negotiable.
• Define and drive the technical roadmap for data transformations and the analytics layer, establishing dbt modeling and quality patterns and standards that scale across the organization.
• Evaluate and champion emerging technologies and best practices in data analytics, including responsible adoption of AI tooling
• Establish data governance frameworks, quality standards, and lineage documentation practices that support audit and compliance requirements in a regulated insurance environment
• Participate in on-call rotation for data availability as part of a shared rotation with Data Engineering; this is lightweight and shared across the team.
• Lead the analytics team's evolution from legacy nightly batch delivery processes to real-time, API-driven data infrastructure to ensure the analytics transformation layer, schemas, and partner-facing data products mature to support real-time consumption patterns alongside existing batch workflows.
• Develop and execute the migration roadmap to move partner data delivery from batch-oriented pipelines to API-driven architectures, managing the complexity of running dual delivery patterns during the transition while maintaining data quality and partner SLAs.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to support enterprise partner integrations, ensuring the analytics layer delivers consistent, quality-assured data whether consumed via legacy batch processes or emerging real-time APIs.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives that require coordination across data, product, engineering, and business teams
• Represent the data team in architecture forums, planning sessions, and stakeholder reviews
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical executives, building alignment and driving informed decision-making
• Build strong relationships with external partners and vendors where analytics deliverables support enterprise integrations.

Data Analytics Manager

QA Automation Engineer

• Identify, build, and scale AI-powered automation across Bestow's internal operations.
• Rapidly prototype MVPs using LLM APIs (Gemini, Anthropic), agent frameworks, and workflow orchestration platforms (n8n, Zapier, Make) to address business bottlenecks.
• Develop production-grade internal applications with reliable frontends, robust backends (Python), and proper observability.
• Design and implement RAG architectures, multi-step agent workflows, and structured output pipelines grounded in company data.
• Build automated evaluation frameworks (evals) to ensure the reliability, accuracy, and safety of AI-generated outputs.
• Evolve successful prototypes into durable production systems with comprehensive error handling, logging, retry logic, and monitoring.
• Research and propose solutions that handle sensitive and business-critical data with appropriate security controls (PII handling, SOC2 awareness, HIPAA considerations, human-in-the-loop safeguards).
• Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, building alignment and driving informed decision-making.
• Host workshops, create playbooks, and train team members across all departments, ensuring they can safely and effectively use, maintain, and get value from the tools you ship.

AI Automation Engineer

Operations

• The Senior Design Operations Manager will be the connective tissue between the design team and the rest of our product org — building and maintaining the systems, processes, and rituals that help designers do their best work.
• Help define and champion the Design POV within the product development lifecycle — from intake to delivery
• Identify bottlenecks and implements solutions to help the team scale and move faster without sacrificing quality
• Build scalable design processes and knowledge management that work whether the team is 5 people or 50
• Lead the buildout of emerging Research Operations within a growing product and design team
• Facilitate and evolve key team rituals: critiques, design reviews, retrospectives, and planning sessions
• Partner with Product and Engineering to streamline cross-functional workflows and reduce friction
• Build bridges between embedded designers across squads so the team stays connected and aligned
• Steward our Figma workspace — structure, naming conventions, component libraries, and version control
• Establish and enforce standards for design files to ensure consistency and easy handoff to engineering
• Maintain a single source of truth for design assets, templates, and documentation
• Evaluate, implement, and manage the toolstack the design team uses day-to-day
• Create and uphold governance for team libraries, design systems, and strategic artifacts
• Stay current on the latest in Design Ops, tooling, and AI-powered design workflows
• Own the function-specific onboarding experience for new design team members
• Foster a healthy culture of feedback, continuous improvement, celebration, and psychological safety
• Administratively support the design leadership team; help define what career growth looks like for designers at Bestow including leveling guides and review processes
• Define and track metrics that show how the design team is performing and where we can improve
• Provide design leadership with team planning clarity including regular visibility into team capacity, velocity, and health

Senior Design Operations Manager

Security Engineer

• As a Senior Security Architect, you will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and continuously testing security solutions to protect our company's information systems and assets.
• You will serve as a strategic liaison between Security, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams to develop a comprehensive security architecture framework that supports secure AI integration and experimentation, aligns with business objectives, and meets regulatory requirements.
• You will define architectural standards that include native capabilities for automated monitoring and self-healing across our multi-cloud environments.
• You will support our company-wide information security governance program by maintaining the control assurance program and partnering with business leaders to periodically assess, test, and collect audit artifacts for review by the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer.
• Contribute to the Incident Response program by reviewing and maintaining documentation and developing or participating in training exercises to ensure the organization remains resilient against emerging threats.
• Lead the development and implementation of automation for established and new security processes to increase operational efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
• Design complex multi-cloud infrastructures where security controls are programmatically enforced and globally consistent.
• Provide technical guidance on securing CI/CD pipelines and managing security within Github and other SaaS-based development tools.
• Continuously assess security systems and infrastructure to identify vulnerabilities and develop remediation plans through risk assessments, penetration tests, and other scanning methodologies.
• Advise teams on secure coding, encryption, authentication, and access controls.
• Lead and collaborate with IT, Engineering, Legal, Finance, Insurance Operations, External Examiners, and other business areas as necessary during compliance exams.
• Prepare metrics and reporting for review by Security Leadership, offering recommendations for remediation that satisfy security best practices and audit scrutiny.
• Evaluate emerging security technologies, trends, and threats to ensure the company is best positioned to defend its landscape.

Senior Security Architect

QA Engineer

• Champion and institutionalize practices such as Definition of Ready, Example Mapping, Specification by Example, and Spec-Driven Development.
• Actively contribute to API and UI automation disciplines.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Product, Technical Program Management, Customer Success, and the Senior Manager of Quality Engineering to establish foundational behaviors that enable long-term quality maturity, automation excellence, regulatory traceability, and future AI-enablement.
• Lead and facilitate Definition of Ready (DoR) workshops.
• Conduct Example Mapping and Specification by Example sessions.
• Convert ambiguous requirements into structured, testable specifications.
• Establish shared vocabulary and ubiquitous language across teams.
• Create reusable facilitation templates, examples, and playbooks.
• Coach Product Managers and Engineers on behavior-focused acceptance criteria.
• Embed Spec-Driven Development (SSD) practices within backlog refinement workflows.
• Design and implement API test strategies aligned to structured specifications.
• Contribute to RESTful API testing using contract validation and schema enforcement.
• Improve test data management and environment stability practices.
• Ensure requirements-to-test traceability (RTM) is maintained and auditable.
• Advocate for deterministic, parallelizable, locally executable tests.

Senior Quality Engineer

• Lead the transformation of our Quality Engineering practices into a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) discipline – engineers who write substantial, production-grade code and engineer quality systems that scale
• Partner to define and execute upon a Quality Engineering transformation roadmap grounded in modern SDET principles
• Spearhead scalable test orchestration platforms capable of executing complex, interdependent validation workflows across distributed systems
• Empower the team to design, deliver, and maintain reusable test frameworks, harnesses, and shared quality infrastructure
• Influence application development and platform architecture to improve testability, observability, isolation, and fault diagnosis
• Drive the institutionalization of risk-based testing and coverage strategy aligned to business-critical workflows
• Design Quality Engineering practices that explicitly reduce developer cognitive load, formalize requirements clarity (Definition of Ready, Spec Driven Development), and strengthen testability at the source
• Lead programs that materially increase release confidence and organizational trust
• Establish engineering excellence across all layers of validation: Unit, component, integration, API, system, and end-to-end testing
• Architect fast, deterministic feedback loops through parallelizable test design, intelligent test selection and test gap analysis, and impact-based test execution strategies
• CI/CD automation workflows and automated quality gates that optimize for signal quality, minimize cognitive overhead, and preserve developer flow
• Champion enterprise-grade test reporting and analytics systems using platforms such as Allure, ReportPortal, or equivalent.
• Transform large-scale test execution data into decision-grade quality intelligence
• Elevate reporting from static output to decision infrastructure and align quality metrics with measurable business outcomes (CFR, MTTR, defect escape rate, release stability)

Quality Engineering Manager

Full-stack Engineer

• Rapidly prototype and iterate on AI-driven insurance products and experimental features
• Own end-to-end delivery of prototypes and MVPs in a scrappy, fast-paced labs environment
• Turn ambiguous product ideas into working demos by collaborating with product, solution architects, and domain experts
• Leverage AI tools (LLMs, copilots, code generators) to accelerate development and explore novel approaches
• Build full-stack applications with usable UIs, robust APIs, and integrations with third-party services
• Make pragmatic tradeoff decisions between speed and maintainability, knowing when prototypes need hardening
• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred) to support rapid experimentation
• Communicate clearly about technical risks, feasibility, and what's realistically achievable in short timeframes
• Collaborate across functions with limited hand-holding, bringing ideas to life with minimal direction
• Help define what "production-ready" looks like when prototypes transition to the core platform

Staff Fullstack Software Engineer

Solutions Engineer

• Validate business and technical requirements for platform solutions in close collaboration with actuaries, engineers, and product managers
• Design and architect solutions that accommodate the full spectrum of life insurance and annuities products—from term life to complex cash value, variable, and indexed products with riders
• Serve as the go-to expert on life insurance product structures, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and meet the needs of modern insurers while supporting legacy product portfolios
• Translate complex insurance requirements into clear, actionable guidance that engineering teams can build against
• Help shape product strategy by identifying opportunities and risks based on your deep understanding of carrier needs and legacy system constraints