Engineering Manager

About Beam:

Beam was founded in 2012 by three engineers who saw the opportunity to modernize the dental benefits industry using technology. Today, Beam Benefits is a digitally-led employee benefits company that offers dental, vision, life, disability, and supplemental health coverage. The company simplifies and modernizes the $100+ billion ancillary benefits industry through its leading dental insurance product, breadth of ancillary benefits, AI-powered underwriting, diversified distribution channels, and next generation benefits administration technologically-driven customer experience.

The Role

Beam is looking for experienced engineering managers with a passion for building and nurturing highly effective and self-sufficient teams. Our teams are made up of 6 - 8 engineers with a wide array of diverse skill sets. Our engineers get the opportunity to work throughout our broad product giving them a diverse, and well-rounded view of our product and business.

What You Will Bring

You’re an experienced engineer and leader with a passion for people and products. You have worked closely with partners in Product and Design to own fully and rapidly iterate on your projects. You are always striving to improve yourself, your team, the product, and the company. You’ve built and managed diverse, high-velocity teams. You love digging in alongside your team when necessary and strive to ensure your team delivers quality products.

Joining Beam Benefits Means:

• Working in a complex and dynamic business, simultaneously serving customers across employee benefits insurance product lines and growth and service channels
• Collaborating with a diversely skilled team to continuously improve
• Being empowered as an owner and expert
• Being motivated by improving how people access employee benefits

What You Will Do:

• Prioritize and manage your team's projects in collaboration with Product and Design stakeholders.
• Actively coach engineers and guide their careers through effective 1:1s, thoughtful feedback, and performance reviews.
• Work closely with your team to shape the direction of the tech stack position us well for future innovation and development.
• Identify and hire great talent that can contribute throughout our products and tech stack.
• Design processes that allow us to maintain our current features while also iterating quickly on new innovative products

What Technical Skills Will Help You Be Successful:

• Experience leading technical teams building web and/or mobile applications
• Experience mentoring, coaching, and providing performance feedback to software engineers
• Experience with Ruby on Rails, React, or other modern languages and frameworks
• Experience building secure and well-tested REST APIs
• Experience working with technical and non-technical stakeholders to align priorities and communicate status

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Compensation and Benefits:

Beam offers a competitive base salary paired with an attractive variable compensation structure.

Employees benefit from performance-based bonuses and incentives, along with a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, dental, and vision insurance. Additionally, Beam provides a 401(k) plan with company matching, flexible time off, and the opportunity to participate in the equity program.