Senior Manager, Back End Engineering [Remote-US]

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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.
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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, Dock