Next Insurance - Engineering Manager
Company: Beyond SOF
Location: Palo Alto
Posted on: April 1, 2026
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Job Description:
Experience level: Mid-senior Experience required: 10 Years
Education level: Bachelor’s degree Job function: Information
Technology Industry: Insurance Compensation: $201,000 - $250,000
Total position: 1 Relocation assistance: Limited assistance Visa :
Only US citizens and Greencard holders Please 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 engineers Lead the development of a
business-critical system using modern backend technologies and
methodologies Ship with your group stable production grade
microservices Institute development best practices to ensure the
team produces high-quality, well-architected, and maintainable code
Lead code and architecture design reviews, ensuring there is a
healthy balance between features and technical debt Collaborate on
roadmaps with Product Managers, Architects, Tech Leads, and other
stakeholders to ensure the group has clear direction and priorities
Manage employee career development by providing coaching and
mentoring, following our continuous performance loop, and
collaborating with employees on their personal development plan
What 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 automation 3 years of experience managing managers or
fast-growing teams with the ability to mentor and develop
individuals with a proven scaling strategy A strong product and
architectural vision with a demonstrated ability to collaborate,
communicate, advocate, and execute on that vision Ability to build
and evolve engineering processes that help teams successfully
deliver the product Communication skills that help you to build
trust, resolve conflicts, and provide feedback to your team
Unstoppable Qualities: Experience working with a startup and/or
SaaS product You have experience with working with remote teams
Experience with the Java/JVM stack and familiarity with Kotlin Tech
stack: Cloud infrastructure - AWS: EKS, EC2, Lambda, SQS, S3,
Kinesis, RDS, Elasticache Container / 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, Redis Devops:
Jenkins, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana. Jaeger Full CI/CD
Keywords: Beyond SOF, San Ramon , Next Insurance - Engineering Manager, IT / Software / Systems , Palo Alto, California
