Kin Insurance · 6 hours ago
Engineering Manager
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$149K/yr - $186K/yr
8+ years expKin Insurance is redesigning insurance to be smarter and centered on the customer. We are looking for a passionate Engineering Manager to guide a full-stack team in driving innovation in product development while ensuring performance and scalability.
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Responsibilities
Serving as a hands-on engineering leader and trusted technical expert
Managing, mentoring and coaching a small team of talented engineers
Collaborating closely with Product Management to define, refine, and maintain your team’s roadmap
Driving your team to innovate while delivering roadmap features with agility and high quality
Writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code
Leading pair programming sessions and providing technical mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers
Leading architectural and design discussions to ensure long-term maintainability, including: Championing API-first development practices, ensuring services are designed through well-defined contracts before implementation
Guiding the team in breaking apart monolithic patterns and moving toward distributed, modular architectures
Overseeing the design and evolution of service boundaries, ensuring systems are loosely coupled and scalable
Participating in agile ceremonies: daily standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives
Collaborating with cross-functional partners across Product, PMO and other engineering teams
Executing quickly and effectively to take ideas from concept to production
Maintaining high availability and responding quickly to production incidents or outages
Representing your team and product line in cross-functional discussions and planning sessions
Participating in engineering recruiting, interviewing, and hiring processes
Qualification
Required
8+ years of hands-on software development experience with strong computer science fundamentals
Proven leadership experience managing or leading a team of engineers
Experience acting as a 'player-coach' who contributes meaningfully to the codebase
Strong experience building distributed systems and decomposing monoliths into services
Hands-on experience with API-first design, including schema-first workflows (OpenAPI/Swagger), contract testing, and interface-driven development
Experience with AWS cloud architecture, including lambdas, event-driven patterns, serverless databases, and IaC
Ability to design systems with clear service ownership, reliability, and modularity
Experience establishing best practices for distributed communication, observability, and error handling (e.g., tracing, retries, idempotency)
Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, message queues/brokers, and distributed system patterns
Strong communication skills and the ability to convey complex technical or product concepts
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, iterative development environment
Excellent command of the full SDLC: analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and support
Preferred
Familiarity with modern JS frameworks (React, Angular, Vue)
Experience with BI or big-data technologies such as Looker or BigTable
Experience with Ruby on Rails or similar frameworks
Exposure to regulated industries or financial/insurance products
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits program, which includes standard coverage and additional supplemental benefits
Company
Kin Insurance
Kin Insurance is a direct-to-consumer digital insurance provider that enhances convenience and customization in coverage options.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Kin Insurance has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (2)
2024 (1)
2023 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$753.16MKey Investors
Runway Growth CapitalWellington ManagementActivate Capital Partners
2025-10-09Debt Financing· $45M
2025-09-09Series E· $50M
2025-03-25Debt Financing· $200M
Leadership Team
Sean Harper
CEO and Co Founder
Alex Mitchell
Senior Director of Product Management
Recent News
500 global
2026-01-13
2025-10-23
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