ABOUT BESTOW

Bestow is the leading digital platform for life insurance. As both a direct-to-consumer destination and an infrastructure provider, Bestow is on a mission to make life insurance accessible to millions of underserved families. 

We strive for work-life balance and believe happy employees make for better experiences and happier customers. It’s a model that helped us land on Forbes’ Best Startup Employers 2021 and 2022 lists!

ABOUT THE TEAM

We want to provide the best experience for our customers who need life insurance. Since most of our customers interact with us via our UI’s, providing a first-class experience is paramount. We are looking for a highly technical, seasoned Director, UI Engineering, and whose proven leadership will help us build the life insurance platform of the future.

Open to Austin, TX, Dallas, TX, Remote (US) #LI-Remote

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Leading Engineering Managers, Sr Engineering Managers, Principal Engineers who build our UI’s at Bestow
• Own Bestow’s web presence that includes the direct-to-consumer site, our embedded and branded experiences with top-tier fintech partners, and SAAS web clients with the largest names in the insurance industry
• Define roadmap, strategy, and execution with Bestow’s design system
• Partner with Product Directors to plan, sequence, and schedule strategic initiatives
• Drive alignment across the engineering org to build the UI for the life insurance platform of the future
• Work with other product, design, engineering, and executive leaders to realize major initiatives
• You are passionate about building beautiful, high-quality UI’s for all of our customers
• Able to make big technical decisions with the team
• Willing and able to roll up sleeves, and support the team in technical a capacity
• Utilize automation testing to unlock an effective CI/CD pipeline

THIS ROLE REPORTS TO

• VP, Engineering

YOUR EXPERIENCE

• 6+ years in a senior engineering leadership role with a modern software organization
• Senior-level people leadership, including indirect management, developing leaders, and organizational design
• Expertise in established, modern, and emergent UI technologies from server-rendered to polymorphic rendered, statically generated, and Jamstack with a point of view on the proper application of each technology
• Proven track record of building / retaining/motivating high performing UI teams
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Expertise in effectively building and utilizing design libraries
• Expert in React & Typescript & Jest
• Passionate about PROD Alerting and Monitoring
• Expertise in A/B testing, conversion optimization, web analytics, and web performance testing and optimization
• Proficient in agile methodologies 
• Expertise in modern continuous and super fast SDLC strategies using CI/CD, feature flagging, progressive rollout, and robust automated testing

TOTAL REWARDS

Competitive salary and equity based on role

Annual bonus based on company and individual performance

Flexible PTO plan

100% paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid parental leave

Annual lifestyle spending account to support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing

Flexible work-from-home policy and open to remote

Learning & Development opportunities

We value diversity at Bestow. We hire, recruit, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We understand the importance of creating a safe and comfortable work environment and encourage individualism and authenticity in every member of our team.