Next Insurance - Engineering Manager

Experience level: Mid-seniorExperience required: 10 YearsEducation level: Bachelor’s degreeJob function: Information TechnologyIndustry: InsuranceCompensation: $201,000 - $250,000Total position: 1Relocation assistance: Limited assistanceVisa: Only US citizens and Greencard holdersPlease 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 engineersLead the development of a business-critical system using modern backend technologies and methodologiesShip with your group stable production grade microservicesInstitute development best practices to ensure the team produces high-quality, well-architected, and maintainable codeLead code and architecture design reviews, ensuring there is a healthy balance between features and technical debtCollaborate on roadmaps with Product Managers, Architects, Tech Leads, and other stakeholders to ensure the group has clear direction and prioritiesManage employee career development by providing coaching and mentoring, following our continuous performance loop, and collaborating with employees on their personal development planWhat 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 automation3+ years of experience managing managers or fast-growing teams with the ability to mentor and develop individuals with a proven scaling strategyA strong product and architectural vision with a demonstrated ability to collaborate, communicate, advocate, and execute on that visionAbility to build and evolve engineering processes that help teams successfully deliver the productCommunication skills that help you to build trust, resolve conflicts, and provide feedback to your teamUnstoppable Qualities:Experience working with a startup and/or SaaS productYou have experience with working with remote teamsExperience with the Java/JVM stack and familiarity with KotlinTech stack:Cloud infrastructure - AWS: EKS, EC2, Lambda, SQS, S3, Kinesis, RDS, ElasticacheContainer / 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, RedisDevops: Jenkins, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, JaegerFull CI/CD #J-18808-Ljbffr

Created: 2025-09-21