Engineering Manager
Kin InsuranceUnited States
Posted November 25, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Kin is the only pure-play, direct-to-consumer digital insurer focused on the growing home insurance market.
Job Description
Kin is redesigning insurance to be smarter, faster, and centered on the customer. We use intelligent pricing, offer seamless bundling, and make every step (from purchasing, servicing to claims) simple and friction-free, especially in the places traditional insurers often ignore. We empower people to protect what matters most, starting with their homes and expanding to all they value, in a world where climate risks, rising costs, and outdated systems leave too many behind.
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
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short and Long Term Disability Insurance options
- Employee Assistance Program
- Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, legal assistance, and pet insurance
- 401K with company match of up to 4% of eligible earnings
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 8 company-observed holidays
- Paid parental leave program
- Continuing education and professional development opportunities