Engineering Manager

Kin is a digital insurer focused on the growing home insurance market. We're looking for an Engineering Manager to guide a full-stack team and drive innovation in product development.

Requirements

• 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

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits program
• Standard coverage and additional supplemental benefits