Senior Manager, Back End Engineering [Remote-US]

Posted Yesterday
Hiring Remotely in USA
Remote
249K-367K Annually
Senior level
Insurance • Software
The Role
Leads backend engineering teams responsible for policy, billing, and financial ledger platforms. Provides technical architecture guidance, coaches engineers, manages performance, and drives scalable, secure, high-performing systems. Partners with Product and Program Management on delivery, improves engineering processes, oversees sprint and roadmap planning, models capacity, manages resources, and aligns technical execution with business goals.
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About Us

Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customer centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend some of the best Silicon Valley talent and cutting-edge thinking with the long-term backing of leading insurer, State Farm.

Learn more about us and our work at quanata.com
 
Our Team
 
Quanata, LLC is an insurance technology innovation company that engineers advanced risk prediction and prevention solutions, develops risk-focused acquisition capabilities, and builds/supports a full-stack, flexible, digital & increasingly AI-native insurance platform. This helps our primary clients, State Farm and HiRoad Assurance Company, adapt to evolving market needs. Quanata, LLC is wholly owned and funded by State Farm.
As a company that prioritizes an inclusive and positive culture, we believe the core of our success is in hiring talented people — across disciplines — who want to help us make a quantifiable impact.
The Role

As a Senior Manager, Back End Engineering, you’ll lead a team of engineers responsible for the core policy, billing, and financial ledger platforms that support key product and operational initiatives at Quanata.

You’ll combine people leadership with technical and architectural guidance, helping your team deliver scalable, secure, high-performing systems. You’ll also help improve how the team operates, from engineering processes and capacity planning to technical decision-making and delivery.

Working closely with Product Management, Program Management, engineering leaders, and other teams across the company, you’ll help align technical execution with broader business goals while coaching and developing mid-level, senior, and staff engineers.

Your Day-to-Day
  • Coach, lead, and develop a team of mid-level, senior, and staff software engineers.
  • Provide architectural guidance and support technical decision-making for back end systems.
  • Partner with Product Management, Program Management, and teams across the company to drive successful product delivery.
  • Improve engineering processes to increase team efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Set and manage expectations with leadership and external stakeholders.
  • Drive team performance against KPIs for throughput, product quality, security, and performance.
  • Lead sprint and roadmap planning, capacity modeling, and resourcing efforts.
  • Stay current on industry trends and help drive adoption of engineering best practices.
About You
  • Bachelor’s degree, an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience, or equivalent relevant experience.
  • 8–10 years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years of engineering management experience.
  • Experience with personnel development and performance management.
  • Project management experience.
  • Experience with sprint and roadmap planning, capacity modeling, and resourcing.
  • Strong technical architecture fluency, with a focus on back end systems.
  • Strong enterprise partnership and stakeholder management skills.
  • Executive-ready written communication skills.
Bonus Points
  • Experience in a financial sector such as insurance, banking, or investing.
  • Experience with AI-assisted engineering practices, including spec-driven development, context and harness engineering, and autonomous agentic workflows.
  • Familiarity with technologies used by the team, including Go, Python, TypeScript, GraphQL, gRPC, Postgres, Mongo, Snowflake, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.

Salary: $249,000 to $367,000*

*Please note that the final salary offered will be determined based on the selected candidate's skills, and experience, as well as the internal salary structure at Quanata. Our aim is to offer a competitive and equitable compensation package that reflects the candidate's expertise and contributions to our organization.

Additional Details: 

  • Benefits: We provide a wide variety of health, wellness and other benefits.These include medical, dental, vision, life insurance and supplemental income plans for you and your dependents, a Headspace app subscription, monthly wellness allowance and a 401(k) Plan with a company match.
  • Work from Home Equipment: Given our virtual environment— in order to set you up for success at home, a one-time payment of $2K will be provided to cover the purchase of in-home office equipment and furniture at your discretion. Also, our teams work with MacBook Pros, which we will deliver to you fully provisioned prior to your first day.
  • Paid Time Off: All employees accrue four weeks of PTO in their first year of employment.  New parents receive twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave which may be taken within one year after the birth and/or adoption of a child. The twelve weeks is applicable to both birthing and non-birthing parent.
  • Personal and Professional Development: We’re committed to investing in and helping our people grow personally and professionally.  All employees receive up to $5000 each year for professional learning, continuing education and career development.  All team members also receive LinkedIn Learning subscriptions and access to multiple different coaching opportunities through BetterUp.
  • Location: We are a remote-first company for most positions so you may work from anywhere you like in the U.S, excluding U.S. territories. For most positions, occasional travel may be requested or encouraged but is not required. Some positions might require travel per the job description provided to the employee. Employees based in the San Francisco Bay Area or in Providence, Rhode Island may commute to one of our local offices as desired.  
  • Hours: We maintain core meeting hours from 9AM - 2PM Pacific time for collaborating with team members across all time zones. 

Quanata, LLC is an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

If you are a San Francisco resident, please read the City and County of San Francisco's Fair Chance Ordinance notice. https://www.sf.gov/sites/https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2022-12/FCO%20poster2020_0.pdf
 
This role is employed by Quanata, LLC which is a separate company in the State Farm family of companies.
 
If you require a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to your Talent Acquisition Partner for assistance. 

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree, equivalent education and relevant experience, or equivalent relevant experience
  • 8-10 years of software engineering experience
  • 4+ years of engineering management experience
  • Experience with personnel development and performance management
  • Project management experience
  • Experience with sprint and roadmap planning, capacity modeling, and resourcing
  • Strong technical architecture fluency focused on back end systems
  • Strong enterprise partnership and stakeholder management skills
  • Executive-ready written communication skills
  • Experience in insurance, banking, investing, or another financial sector
  • Experience with AI-assisted engineering practices, including spec-driven development, context and harness engineering, and autonomous agentic workflows
  • Familiarity with Go, Python, TypeScript, GraphQL, gRPC, Postgres, Mongo, Snowflake, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, California
258 Employees

What We Do

Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. With the full backing of State Farm, we’re powering the insurance industry of tomorrow and helping enable better driving behaviors. Our top tier team of tech-minded professionals comprises data scientists, actuaries, engineers, designers and marketers—many from the best companies in Silicon Valley—and we’re inspired to create the insurance products and experiences of the future. Learn more about us and our work at http://www.quanata.com.

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