Engineering Manager - Assistant Vice President / Vice President

About the Role

iCapital is looking to hire a Software Engineering Manager to join the Annuities Platform team. Leading teams of C# and React engineers across US and India, this individual will manage developers responsible for the delivery of world class software for the entire sales workflow from quoting, insurance applications, e-signature to submission, used by the top US Life and Annuities carriers and distributors.   This role will focus relentlessly on delivering high-quality software products, driving AI adoption, raising the bar on engineering practices, agile development, and help migrate the application stack to a modern services-oriented product while maintaining the highest standards for availability and quality.

Responsibilities

Manage teams of 7–12 across two PODs, consisting of C# and React engineers in North America responsible for implementing Firelight Platform features.

Build highly available, fault-tolerant customer-facing applications using service-based architectures and lead the migration from monolithic applications to modern service stacks, including decomposition efforts.

Review code and provide consistent, high-quality feedback to maintain strong engineering standards.

Develop, mentor, and coach team members while fostering a positive work environment.

Lead the practical adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices, including responsible use of coding assistants, developer productivity tools, and customer-facing AI-enabled features.

Lead and manage the technical execution of multiple complex software development projects.

Drive adherence to existing processes and define new or improved processes within teams.

Motivate teams to solve problems and deliver high-quality results.

Manage stakeholder relationships across the business group and broader organization.

Perform risk and dependency management across the engineering organization.

Oversee resource planning activities, align work with organizational strategy, and integrate efforts across teams as needed.

Ensure delivery of software within quality standards by facilitating and maintaining a clear definition of done (DoD) for Agile stories.

Measure business value delivered by teams, including features committed versus released and user stories completed, and analyze productivity through bug-to-feature ratios.

Assess delivery efficiency using lead time (idea to deployment) and cycle time (development to deployment) metrics.

Evaluate backlog health by analyzing backlog size, aging items, and prioritization effectiveness.

Monitor delivery quality through defect density, code review feedback, and test coverage metrics.

Assess sprint performance using completion rates, goal achievement, velocity, and improvement actions to close gaps.

Analyze code metrics, including commit volume, pull request activity, and code complexity.

Qualifications

7- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading diverse, global engineering teams

Strong technical background building customer-facing, mission-critical web applications using C#, ASP.NET Core, MVC, Entity Framework Core, React, JavaScript and TypeScript, or comparable technologies

Experience designing scalable, secure, high-performance enterprise solutions using Microsoft technologies, SQL Server, Azure Cosmos DB, NoSQL platforms, and modern API security practices

Extensive experience with AI coding assistants (Copilot, Claude Desktop, Cursor, etc.) and customer facing applications using Azure Foundry, MCP, or OpenAI APIs

Deep understanding of cloud-native architecture and Azure services, including App Services, Azure Functions, AKS, Azure DevOps, CI/CD automation, Service Bus, Event Grid

Experience applying modern architecture and engineering practices, including SOLID principles, clean architecture, domain-driven design, microservices, code quality, performance optimization, and secure development

Proven ability to mentor engineers, conduct effective code reviews, foster a high-performance engineering culture, and drive continuous improvement through Agile delivery practices and metrics

Strong product mindset with the ability to shape requirements, influence roadmap decisions, manage competing priorities, and oversee multiple complex projects simultaneously

Experience modernizing technology platforms, optimizing existing codebases, improving DevOps-based delivery execution, and supporting SaaS product development

Strong leadership, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make sound technical and architectural decisions under pressure

Experience with large-scale third-party integrations, external software integrations, consulting or client-delivery environments, and vendor or partner relationship management

Experience in Life Insurance, Annuities, InsurTech, broader FinTech, mobile development, AI/ML capabilities, and tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Git, and Azure Boards is a plus

Benefits

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